Dr. Michael — Academic and SBIR/STIR Engineering Grant Writer and Editor: PhD in Engineering, MS in Biotechnology  

Services

• Technical and Scientific Writing
• SBIR/STTR and other proposals
• Invention disclosures
• Manuscript editing

Dr. Michael’s career as an engineering grant writer spans both industry (start-ups and established companies) and academia, as well as research in government labs and consulting for intellectual property law firms.   Dr. Michael has twenty-five years experience in the semiconductor and renewable energy industries as a Senior Researcher and Manager, and has taught undergraduate and graduate STEM courses ranging from electromagnetics, nanotechnology, reliability engineering, colloids and interface science, chemical thermodynamics, kinetics, electronics, non-destructive testing, and signal processing, at twelve US and foreign universities.  Dr. Michael has won numerous grants as an engineering grant writer for himself as Principal Investigator from the DOD (Army, Navy, Air Force, DARPA, and SDIO), NSF, DOE, NASA, Department of Commerce, and various other funding agencies, totaling over $25 million.

Dr. Michael has over 250 publications (Google H-score 46, i-index 99;  6600 citations) and 23 patents.  On top of his decades as an engineering grant writer, he has served as a reviewer for NSF, DOE,  state and private foundations, and the science funding agencies of several countries.   He has been a reviewer for many technical journals, as well guest editor and member of various editorial boards.  

Dr. Michaels’s primary research interests center on materials and devices for optoelectronics and sensors, renewable energy, microfluidics, and medical diagnostics.  Dr. Michael has also supervised and mentored university projects in thermal imaging, rapid prototyping, biofuels from algae, CO₂ capture, COVID and HIV tests, water purification, machine vision and robotics, and thermo-photovoltaics. 

Dr. Michael has a BChE (Chemical Engineering) and BEE (Electrical Engineering) from the University of Delaware, an AAS in Lasers and Optics from Camden County College,  an MS (Biotechnology) from Johns Hopkins, an MS (Biomedical Diagnostics) from Arizona State University, an MS (Chemistry) from University of the Sciences, an MS (Microbiology) from the University of Florida, an MS (Electrical Engineering) from the University of Delaware, and a PhD in Applied Sciences, Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware.  Dr. Michael is a licensed Professional Engineer.  Dr. Michael is widely traveled, having visited over 80 countries.

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