Dr. Ibrahim Zeid is a professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University. He is the recipient of both the Northeastern Excellence in Teaching Award and the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. Professor Zeid is the author or co-author of many publications in journals and conference proceedings. Professor Zeid also teaches many academic and industrial/professional courses and topics in the Internet area including Web development, XHTML, JavaScript, objectoriented design, UML, Java, advanced Java, JavaServer Pages, Enterprise JavaBeans, Perl, PHP, and computers and information systems.