Dr. Salamy is an Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, MN. Before joining the University of St. Thomas, he was an Electrical Engineering faculty member at Texas State University. Throughout his academic career, Dr. Salamy taught courses in computer, electrical and software engineering as well as courses in computer science. His research interests are in the areas of embedded systems, high performance computing, computer architecture, renewable technologies, and engineering education. He was a founding member of the system modeling and renewable technology (SMART) lab at Texas state university as a teaching and research center dedicated to renewable technologies and engineering education.