Rate My Professor Beshoy Morkos

Beshoy Morkos is a Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia, where he directs the MODEL (Manufacturing Optimization, Design, and Engineering Education Lab) Research Group, one of the largest research groups at the institution. He earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2006, M.S. in 2008, and Ph.D. in 2012, all from Clemson University. His Ph.D. dissertation, supervised by Dr. Joshua Summers, received the 2014 ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Dissertation of the Year Award for its innovative work on representation and reasoning tools for requirements analysis. Following his doctorate, he served as a postdoctoral researcher in Clemson's Department of Engineering & Science Education alongside Dr. Lisa Benson, conducting NSF-funded studies on engineering student motivation, persistence, and technology use in classrooms. Prior to UGA, where he joined as Associate Professor in 2019 and was promoted to Professor in 2025, Morkos was Associate Professor (2018-2019) and Assistant Professor (2012-2018) at the Florida Institute of Technology. His early career included roles as Research Associate at the BMW Information Technology Research Center and Manufacturing Engineer at Robert Bosch Corporation.