Who We Are

Paradigm Shift Education Inc is a USA based nonprofit organization founded in 2018 by few expatriate Bangladeshi professionals for promoting and advancing educational excellence in Bangladesh. This is organized exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes, specifically to support marginalized students and their families; create social awareness about importance of education in poor neighborhoods; encourage and support STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education in schools and madrasas. 

Our Mission

Provide opportunities to poor, marginalized and first-generation students to flourish their talents by connecting, mobilizing, supporting, and transforming educational stakeholders.

Our Vision

Striving to be the leader in ensuring a joyful, inclusive and transformative education for every student regardless of one’s background.

What We Do

Bangladesh has recently made a significant economic growth; however the dropout rate in primary and secondary education is still high. According to a World Bank report published in 2016, the dropout rate in primary school is about 20% . Only 50% of the pupils enrolled in grade 1 can complete grade 10 due to poverty, child labor, lack of family support, and scarcity of resources. On the other hand, Madrasas and orphanages are the least equipped but one of the major education providers for students from extremely low-income families in Bangladesh. 

Various research data show that 85% of madrasas with orphanages are located in outside of the cities and rural areas. Madrasas and orphanages provide basic education to 14% of total student populations. We believe that education is the single most important factor that shapes the life of a child and the future of a country. Hence the objective of the organization is to support marginalized, deprived, and first-generation students and their families through some unique but effective projects such as:

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Parents/Guardian Recognition

STEM and IT Education in Madrasas and Orphanages

STEM and IT education in Madrasas

Talent Support

Talent Support

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Mobilize Educational Stakeholders 

Our Story

Robi and Prince are two friends since their student life at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) 1997-2002. Both of them feel deeply about the motherland, Bangladesh where all levels of education are almost free and even, food and living during University studies are highly subsidized. On the other hand, Jonayed was a fresh college graduate with lots of energy in 2017 who has been dreaming of transform the society in whole of his student life as a progressive activist. So the three together brain-stormed, discussed, debated and eventually came up with the idea of making dedication and struggle of poor families towards their children’s education visible. Because they chose education for their children by sacrificing income that the children would have generated like other low-income families. 

A small fund has been managed to kick off the project right away in 2017. Badda, a suburb of Dhaka City Corporations was selected as a project area. Four destiture families whose children were the best in class based on their character and academics results with the help of local school teachers, volunteers, and rigorous interview process. The families were publicly honored, recognized and awarded with plaques and cash-support as a model family by the community leaders, school teachers, and administrators. The impact of this publicly recognition had a very positive impact on families and other students. Based on the positive responses, the Paradigm Shift Education Inc. has been formed in 2018 in the state of Oklahoma to extend this and other similar projects throughout the Bangladesh and poor neighborhoods in the USA.

Governing Body

Dr. Mohammad Robiul Hossan
President and Co-Founder
Dr. Ariful Bhuiyan
Secretary and Co-Founder
Dr. Samina Shabnam
Treasurer
Jonayed Iqbal
Project Coordinator (Bangladesh)

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Dr. Mohammad Robiul Hossan

Mohammad Robiul Hossan is an associate professor of mechanical at the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO), Oklahoma, USA. Dr. Hossan received his BS (2002) in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), MS in Mechanical Engineering (2008) and in Industrial Management (2009) from South Dakota State University (SDSU), South Dakota, USA and PhD (2013) in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University (WSU), Washington, USA. After his graduation from BUET, he served as a lecturer in the department of mechanical engineering at the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) till 2005. Dr. Hossan’s passion in joyful, inclusive and transformative education has led to found this organization. In academic setting, Dr. Hossan’s research focuses on the development of micro and biofluidic devices, electrokinetic transport and transformative learning in engineering education. His research is funded by NIH, NSF, STLR and UCO on-campus grants. He has published more than 35 peer reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings with more than 100 technical presentations in conferences and invited talks. Dr. Hossan received Oklahoma NIH-INBRE Research Project Investigator award in 2019, Research Opportunity Award in 2015, UCO faculty merit credit teaching award in 2016 and UCO faculty merit credit research award in 2017 and 2019. He chaired numerous sessions, symposia, and tracks for a number of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) and OAS (Oklahoma Academy of Science) conferences and technical meetings. Currently he is serving as the chair of ASME Micro/Nano Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee.

DR. ARIFUL BHUIYAN

Dr. Ariful Bhuiyan is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering program at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Before joining the university as an Assistant Professor, Dr. Bhuiyan spent around ten years in the industry. Along with his teaching and research activities, he tries to establish a relationship between university and tech-companies, through SBIR proposals. His research interest is on Mechanical System Design and Analysis, Solid Mechanics, Biomedical device, and Finite Element Analysis. Dr. Bhuiyan received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas Tech University. His thesis was titled “Anterior Cruciate Ligament Response Due to Forces Resulting from Quadriceps Muscle and Ground Reaction.” He received his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2005 and earned a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2002.

DR. SAMINA SHABNAM​

Dr. Samina Shabnam is an Assistant Physician of the Medina Clinic, Grandview, Missouri. She also works for University of Oklahoma Medical center at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Dr. Shabnam received her MBBS degree from Chittagong Medical College, Bangladesh in 2007. She regularly organizes various educational events for children in greater Oklahoma City Bangladeshi community.

Jonayed Iqbal

Jonayed strongly believes that all people are intrinsically responsive to the common good and ‘destitute’ members of the society and always feel a responsibility to do something for ‘them’ but eventually, most of the people are not able to do anything significant because of their won struggle for bread and butter. This belief drove him to choose a career in the development sector since he thinks, it allows him to work directly for common good besides providing a livelihood. He has been working for different national and international organizations from the beginning of the beginning of his career. Jonayed did Master in disaster management from University of Dhaka.