R. Zoughireceived his B.S.E.E, M.S.E.E, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering (radar remote sensing, radar systems, and microwaves) from the Universityof Kansaswhere from 1981 until 1987 he was at the Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL). Currently he is the Schlumberger Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T). Prior to joining Missouri S&T in January 2001 and since 1987 he was with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Colorado State University (CSU), where he was a professor and established the Applied Microwave Nondestructive Testing Laboratory (amntl). His current areas of research include developing new nondestructive techniques for microwave and millimeter wave inspection and testing of materials (NDT), developing new electromagnetic probes to measure characteristic properties of material at microwave frequencies and developing embedded modulated scattering techniques for NDT purposes in particular for complex composite structures. Dr. Zoughi held the position of Business Challenge Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1995 to 1997 while at CSU. Dr. Zoughi has to his credit over 290 journal publications, conference presentations and proceedings, technical reports and overview articles in the fields of radar remote sensing and microwave nondestructive evaluation.

He is also the author of a graduate textbook entitled "Microwave Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation Principles" KLUWER Academic Publishers, 2000, and the co-author with A. Bahr, and N. Qaddoumi of a chapter on Microwave Techniques in an undergraduate introductory textbook entitled "Nondestructive Evaluation: Theory, Techniques, and Applications" edited by P.J. Shull, Marcel and Dekker, Inc., 2002.

He was voted the most outstanding teaching faculty seven times by the junior and senior students at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at CSU. He received the College of Engineering Abell Faculty Teaching Award in 1995. He is the 1996 recipient of the Colorado State Board of Agriculture Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award (only one faculty recognized for this award at each of the three CSU system campuses). Dr. Zoughi was recognized as an honored researcher for seven years by the Colorado State University Research Foundation. He has six patents to his credit all in the field of microwave nondestructive testing and evaluation. He has given numerous invited talks on the subject of Microwave Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu and the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT).

He is an Associate Technical Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Materials Evaluation and Research in Nondestructive Evaluation and served as the Guest Associate Editor for the Special Microwave NDE Issue of Research in Nondestructive Evaluation and in 1995 and co-guest editor for the Special Issue of Subsurface Sensing Technologies and Applications: Advances and Applications in Microwave and Millimeter Wave Nondestructive Evaluation. He served as the Research Symposium Co-Chair for the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Spring Conference and 11th Annual Research Symposium in March 2002 in Portland, Oregon and as the Technical Chair for the IEEEInstrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IMTC2003) in May 2003 in Vail Colorado.

Professor Zoughi spent a semester of sabbatical leave in 1998 at Département de Recherche en Electromagnétisme, Supélec (Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité), Plateau de Moulon, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. There he learned about modulated scattering techniques and collaborated with scientist at Supelec in combining near-field microwave nondestructive testing techniques with modulated scattering techniques for microwave nondestructive testing and evaluation purposes. He also co-organized (with Professor J.C. Bolomey) the first "Training Workshop on Advanced Microwave NDT/NDE Techniques" which was later held in Paris on September 7-9, 1999.