Mohamed Sayed Ahmed, Ahmed
Mohamed Sayed Ahmed, Ahmed Adjunct Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Degree with Fields, Institution, and Date •
Doctor of Philosophy, Power Electronics, Marquette University, 2009
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M.SC, Power Electronics, Cairo University, 2003
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B.SC, Electrical Engineering, Cairo University, 1998
Years of Service on this Faculty: 5
Date of Original Appointment: February 2014
Advancement in Rank/Position •
Adjunct Associate Professor, February 2014
Other Teaching Experience •
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 2012-present
Industrial Experience •
Senior Project Engineer “Control FW team lead” , Rockwell Automation, WI 2017present
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Project Engineer “ Control FW team lead”, Rockwell Automation, Mequon, WI, 20132017
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Senior Control FW Engineer, Rockwell Automation, Mequon, WI, 2011-2013.
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Senior Control HW Engineer, Rockwell Automation, Mequon, WI, 2009-2011.
Milwaukee School of Engineering • 1025 North Broadway • Milwaukee, WI 53202-3109 • (414) 277-7300 • www.msoe.edu
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Power Electronics Intern, Rockwell Automation, Mequon, WI, 2007-2008
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Power Electronics Intern, Eaton Innovation Center, Milwaukee, WI, 2006-2007
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Senior Electrical Engineer, Rashid Petroleum Company, 1999-2005
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Research Engineer, Cairo University, Egypt, 1998-2003
Consulting and Patents •
Electrical power quality test-bed and method. Granted, Patent No. US 8373406 B2, Lead inventor
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Industrial system phase sag detection, Granted, Patent No. US 9535133 B2, Lead inventor.
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Single phase operation of a three-phase drive system Granted, Patent No. 8,988,026, Lead inventor.
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Phase loss detection in Active Front End converters, Granted, Patent No. US 20170272023 A1, Lead inventor.
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Power Conversion System with DC bus regulation for abnormal grid condition ride through, Granted, Patent No. 9847733. Lead inventor.
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A phase locked loop with cascade tracking filters for synchronizing an electric grid. Granted, Patent No. 8,704,57,1 Lead inventor.
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Power Converter System and Method. Granted, Patent No.US 08570773, first coinventor.
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Adaptive online filter for dc offset elimination. Granted. Patent No. US 8964427 B2, first co-inventor
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Phase-Locked-Loop with Quadrature Tracking Filter for Synchronizing an Electric Grid. Granted, Patent No. US8816729 B2, first co-inventor.
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Impedance detector apparatus and method. Granted, Patent No. US 9651592 B2, first coinventor
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Integrated regenerative AC drive with solid state precharging. Granted, Patent No. US8816625B2, second co-inventor.
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Method and apparatus for islanding detection for grid-tie converters, Filed, File No. 2012P-235-US.
Milwaukee School of Engineering • 1025 North Broadway • Milwaukee, WI 53202-3109 • (414) 277-7300 • www.msoe.edu
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Double fed induction generator converter and method for suppressing transient in deactivation of crowbar circuit for grid fault ride through. Fifth co-inventor. Granted Patent No. US 8570003 B2
Publications •
Y. P. Patel, A. S. M. S. Ahmed and L. Wei, "Hybrid damping for active front end converter," 2016 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Milwaukee, WI, USA, 2016, pp. 1-6.
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Y. Cui, A. Sayed-Ahmed, P. Vadhavkar, B. J. Seibel and R. J. Kerkman, "A new instantaneous point on wave voltage sag detection algorithm & validation," 2016 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Milwaukee, WI, USA, 2016, pp. 1-7.
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Alfares, A , Sayed-Ahmed, A., "Analysis and assessment of microgrid stability using the Nu gap approach," in Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2014 IEEE , vol., no., pp.2676-2683, 14-18 Sept. 2014 .
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Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Kerkman, R.; Seibel, B., "Tuning of phase locked loop for industrial regenerative motor-drive systems," Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2013 Twenty-Eighth Annual IEEE , vol., no., pp.1569,1575, 17-21 March 2013
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Sayed-Ahmed, Ahmed; Kerkman, Russ; Seibel, Brian, "Analysis of IGBT based fundamental front end regenerative motor-drive systems," Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2013 Twenty-Eighth Annual IEEE , vol., no., pp.765,772, 17-21 March 2013
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Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Demerdash, N.A.O.; , "Fault-Tolerant Operation of Delta- Connected Scalar- and Vector-Controlled AC Motor Drives," Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.27, no.6, pp.3041-3049, June 2012
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Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Lixiang Wei; Seibel, B.; , "Industrial regenerative motor-drive systems," Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2012 TwentySeventh Annual IEEE , vol., no., pp.1555-1561, 5-9 Feb. 2012
Milwaukee School of Engineering • 1025 North Broadway • Milwaukee, WI 53202-3109 • (414) 277-7300 • www.msoe.edu
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Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Demerdash, N.A.O.; Control of Open-Loop PWM Delta- Connected Motor-Drive Systems under One Phase Failure Condition” JPE, Vol. 11, No. 6, November 2011
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Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Mirafzal, B.; Demerdash, N.A.O.; , "Fault-Tolerant Technique for Connected AC-Motor Drives," Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on , vol.26, no.2, pp.646-653, June 2011 IEEE Power& Energy Society prize paper for 2012
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Sayed-Ahmed, A; Mirafzal, B.; Demerdash, N.A.O.;, “ A Fault Tolerant Technique for Vector Control _-Connected AC Motor Drives” Applied power electronics conference 2011,ForthWoth, Texas.
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Sayed-Ahmed, A; Mirafzal, B.; Demerdash, N.A.O.;, “ Continued Operation of deltaconnected AC Motor drive systems under stator fault conditions Technique for Vector Control _-Connected AC Motor Drives” International machines and drives conference 2011, Niagra Falls , Canada
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Sayed-Ahmed, A; Skibinski, Gary ; “Design and Analysis of an Integrated DifferentialCommon Mode Filter for On Site Motor Bearing Problems ” International machines and drives conference 2011, Niagra Falls , Canada
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Shaohua Suo; Sizov, G.Y.; Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Demerdash, N.A.O.; , "Modeling and experimental validation of a fault mitigation method in induction motor-drive systems using a magnetic equivalent circuit," Electric Machines & Drives Conference (IEMDC), 2011 IEEE International , vol., no., pp.699-704, 15-18 May 2011
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Kadaba, A.; Shaohua Suo; Sizov, G.Y.; Chia-Chou Yeh; Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Demerdash, N.A.O.; , "Design and modeling of a reversible 3-phase to 6-phase induction motor for improved survivability," Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2011 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1-5, 24-29 July 2011
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Sizov, G.Y.; Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Chia-Chou Yeh; Demerdash, N.A.O.; , "Analysis and Diagnostics of Adjacent and Nonadjacent Broken-Rotor-Bar Faults in Squirrel-Cage Induction Machines," Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.56, no.11, pp.4627-4641, Nov. 2009
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Yeh, C.-C.; Sizov, G.Y.; Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Demerdash, N.; Povinelli, R.J.; Yaz, E.E.; Ionel, D.M.; , "A Reconfigurable Motor for Experimental Emulation of Stator Winding
Milwaukee School of Engineering • 1025 North Broadway • Milwaukee, WI 53202-3109 • (414) 277-7300 • www.msoe.edu
Page 5 of 6 Interturn and Broken Bar Faults in Polyphase Induction Machines," Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on , vol.23, no.4, pp.1005-1014, Dec. 2008 •
Chia-Chou Yeh; Sizov, G.Y.; Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Demerdash, N.A.O.; Povinelli, R.J.; Yaz, E.E.; Ionel, D.M.; , "A Reconfigurable Motor for Experimental Emulation of Stator Winding Inter-Turn and Broken Bar Faults in Polyphase Induction Machines," Electric Machines & Drives Conference, 2007. IEMDC '07. IEEE International , vol.2, no., pp.1413-1419, 3-5 May 2007
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Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Sizov, G.Y.; Demerdash, N.A.O.; , "Diagnosis of Inter-Turn Short Circuit for a Polyphase Induction Motor in Closed-Loop Vector-Controlled Drives," Industry Applications Conference, 2007. 42nd IAS Annual Meeting. Conference Record of the 2007 IEEE , vol., no., pp.2262-2268, 23-27 Sept. 2007
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Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Chia-Chou Yeh; Demerdash, N.A.O.; Mirafzal, B.; , "Analysis of Stator Winding Inter-Turn Short-Circuit Faults in Induction Machines for Identification of the Faulty Phase," Industry Applications Conference, 2006. 41st IAS Annual Meeting.
Presentations Given •
Invited guest speaker, ECCE Department, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 2013
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Invited guest speaker, WEMPEC Symposium, University of Wisconsin –Madison, Madison, WI, 2012
Scientific and Professional Societies of Which a Member •
Senior Member, IEEE, 2011-present
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Co-founder/Vice-Chair, IEEE Power Electronics Chapter, IEEE Milwaukee GOLD
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Chair of IEEE power & Energy chapter in Great Milwaukee area.
Honors and Awards •
Rockwell Automation Capture the Moment, 2015
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IEEE Power and Energy Society transaction prize paper, 2012
Milwaukee School of Engineering • 1025 North Broadway • Milwaukee, WI 53202-3109 • (414) 277-7300 • www.msoe.edu
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Rockwell Automation Capture the Moment, 2010
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Rockwell Automation Innovation Award, 2009
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Rockwell Automation Capture the Moment, 2007
Institutional and Professional Service •
Session Chair, Applied Power Electronics Conference, 2011
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Reviewer, IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics.
Special Qualifications •
Technical Software Packages: o DSP programming: Code composer studio C2000 & C3000 DSP families o Modeling & analysis: Matlab model based design and automatic code generation o Simulink, control system design toolbox, filter design toolbox and simpowersystems o Finite element analysis: Magsoft (Flux 2D) - Ansoft (Maxwell3D,Q3D). o Electronic system modeling: Ansoft (Simplorer) o Programming languages: C/C++
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Languages: Arabic (Mother tongue), English (Fluent in writing and speaking)
Milwaukee School of Engineering • 1025 North Broadway • Milwaukee, WI 53202-3109 • (414) 277-7300 • www.msoe.edu
Degree with Fields, Institution, and Date •
Doctor of Philosophy, Power Electronics, Marquette University, 2009
•
M.SC, Power Electronics, Cairo University, 2003
•
B.SC, Electrical Engineering, Cairo University, 1998
Years of Service on this Faculty: 5
Date of Original Appointment: February 2014
Advancement in Rank/Position •
Adjunct Associate Professor, February 2014
Other Teaching Experience •
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 2012-present
Industrial Experience •
Senior Project Engineer “Control FW team lead” , Rockwell Automation, WI 2017present
•
Project Engineer “ Control FW team lead”, Rockwell Automation, Mequon, WI, 20132017
•
Senior Control FW Engineer, Rockwell Automation, Mequon, WI, 2011-2013.
•
Senior Control HW Engineer, Rockwell Automation, Mequon, WI, 2009-2011.
Milwaukee School of Engineering • 1025 North Broadway • Milwaukee, WI 53202-3109 • (414) 277-7300 • www.msoe.edu
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Power Electronics Intern, Rockwell Automation, Mequon, WI, 2007-2008
•
Power Electronics Intern, Eaton Innovation Center, Milwaukee, WI, 2006-2007
•
Senior Electrical Engineer, Rashid Petroleum Company, 1999-2005
•
Research Engineer, Cairo University, Egypt, 1998-2003
Consulting and Patents •
Electrical power quality test-bed and method. Granted, Patent No. US 8373406 B2, Lead inventor
•
Industrial system phase sag detection, Granted, Patent No. US 9535133 B2, Lead inventor.
•
Single phase operation of a three-phase drive system Granted, Patent No. 8,988,026, Lead inventor.
•
Phase loss detection in Active Front End converters, Granted, Patent No. US 20170272023 A1, Lead inventor.
•
Power Conversion System with DC bus regulation for abnormal grid condition ride through, Granted, Patent No. 9847733. Lead inventor.
•
A phase locked loop with cascade tracking filters for synchronizing an electric grid. Granted, Patent No. 8,704,57,1 Lead inventor.
•
Power Converter System and Method. Granted, Patent No.US 08570773, first coinventor.
•
Adaptive online filter for dc offset elimination. Granted. Patent No. US 8964427 B2, first co-inventor
•
Phase-Locked-Loop with Quadrature Tracking Filter for Synchronizing an Electric Grid. Granted, Patent No. US8816729 B2, first co-inventor.
•
Impedance detector apparatus and method. Granted, Patent No. US 9651592 B2, first coinventor
•
Integrated regenerative AC drive with solid state precharging. Granted, Patent No. US8816625B2, second co-inventor.
•
Method and apparatus for islanding detection for grid-tie converters, Filed, File No. 2012P-235-US.
Milwaukee School of Engineering • 1025 North Broadway • Milwaukee, WI 53202-3109 • (414) 277-7300 • www.msoe.edu
Page 3 of 6 •
Double fed induction generator converter and method for suppressing transient in deactivation of crowbar circuit for grid fault ride through. Fifth co-inventor. Granted Patent No. US 8570003 B2
Publications •
Y. P. Patel, A. S. M. S. Ahmed and L. Wei, "Hybrid damping for active front end converter," 2016 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Milwaukee, WI, USA, 2016, pp. 1-6.
•
Y. Cui, A. Sayed-Ahmed, P. Vadhavkar, B. J. Seibel and R. J. Kerkman, "A new instantaneous point on wave voltage sag detection algorithm & validation," 2016 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Milwaukee, WI, USA, 2016, pp. 1-7.
•
Alfares, A , Sayed-Ahmed, A., "Analysis and assessment of microgrid stability using the Nu gap approach," in Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2014 IEEE , vol., no., pp.2676-2683, 14-18 Sept. 2014 .
•
Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Kerkman, R.; Seibel, B., "Tuning of phase locked loop for industrial regenerative motor-drive systems," Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2013 Twenty-Eighth Annual IEEE , vol., no., pp.1569,1575, 17-21 March 2013
•
Sayed-Ahmed, Ahmed; Kerkman, Russ; Seibel, Brian, "Analysis of IGBT based fundamental front end regenerative motor-drive systems," Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2013 Twenty-Eighth Annual IEEE , vol., no., pp.765,772, 17-21 March 2013
•
Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Demerdash, N.A.O.; , "Fault-Tolerant Operation of Delta- Connected Scalar- and Vector-Controlled AC Motor Drives," Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.27, no.6, pp.3041-3049, June 2012
•
Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Lixiang Wei; Seibel, B.; , "Industrial regenerative motor-drive systems," Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2012 TwentySeventh Annual IEEE , vol., no., pp.1555-1561, 5-9 Feb. 2012
Milwaukee School of Engineering • 1025 North Broadway • Milwaukee, WI 53202-3109 • (414) 277-7300 • www.msoe.edu
Page 4 of 6 •
Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Demerdash, N.A.O.; Control of Open-Loop PWM Delta- Connected Motor-Drive Systems under One Phase Failure Condition” JPE, Vol. 11, No. 6, November 2011
•
Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Mirafzal, B.; Demerdash, N.A.O.; , "Fault-Tolerant Technique for Connected AC-Motor Drives," Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on , vol.26, no.2, pp.646-653, June 2011 IEEE Power& Energy Society prize paper for 2012
•
Sayed-Ahmed, A; Mirafzal, B.; Demerdash, N.A.O.;, “ A Fault Tolerant Technique for Vector Control _-Connected AC Motor Drives” Applied power electronics conference 2011,ForthWoth, Texas.
•
Sayed-Ahmed, A; Mirafzal, B.; Demerdash, N.A.O.;, “ Continued Operation of deltaconnected AC Motor drive systems under stator fault conditions Technique for Vector Control _-Connected AC Motor Drives” International machines and drives conference 2011, Niagra Falls , Canada
•
Sayed-Ahmed, A; Skibinski, Gary ; “Design and Analysis of an Integrated DifferentialCommon Mode Filter for On Site Motor Bearing Problems ” International machines and drives conference 2011, Niagra Falls , Canada
•
Shaohua Suo; Sizov, G.Y.; Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Demerdash, N.A.O.; , "Modeling and experimental validation of a fault mitigation method in induction motor-drive systems using a magnetic equivalent circuit," Electric Machines & Drives Conference (IEMDC), 2011 IEEE International , vol., no., pp.699-704, 15-18 May 2011
•
Kadaba, A.; Shaohua Suo; Sizov, G.Y.; Chia-Chou Yeh; Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Demerdash, N.A.O.; , "Design and modeling of a reversible 3-phase to 6-phase induction motor for improved survivability," Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2011 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1-5, 24-29 July 2011
•
Sizov, G.Y.; Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Chia-Chou Yeh; Demerdash, N.A.O.; , "Analysis and Diagnostics of Adjacent and Nonadjacent Broken-Rotor-Bar Faults in Squirrel-Cage Induction Machines," Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.56, no.11, pp.4627-4641, Nov. 2009
•
Yeh, C.-C.; Sizov, G.Y.; Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Demerdash, N.; Povinelli, R.J.; Yaz, E.E.; Ionel, D.M.; , "A Reconfigurable Motor for Experimental Emulation of Stator Winding
Milwaukee School of Engineering • 1025 North Broadway • Milwaukee, WI 53202-3109 • (414) 277-7300 • www.msoe.edu
Page 5 of 6 Interturn and Broken Bar Faults in Polyphase Induction Machines," Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on , vol.23, no.4, pp.1005-1014, Dec. 2008 •
Chia-Chou Yeh; Sizov, G.Y.; Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Demerdash, N.A.O.; Povinelli, R.J.; Yaz, E.E.; Ionel, D.M.; , "A Reconfigurable Motor for Experimental Emulation of Stator Winding Inter-Turn and Broken Bar Faults in Polyphase Induction Machines," Electric Machines & Drives Conference, 2007. IEMDC '07. IEEE International , vol.2, no., pp.1413-1419, 3-5 May 2007
•
Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Sizov, G.Y.; Demerdash, N.A.O.; , "Diagnosis of Inter-Turn Short Circuit for a Polyphase Induction Motor in Closed-Loop Vector-Controlled Drives," Industry Applications Conference, 2007. 42nd IAS Annual Meeting. Conference Record of the 2007 IEEE , vol., no., pp.2262-2268, 23-27 Sept. 2007
•
Sayed-Ahmed, A.; Chia-Chou Yeh; Demerdash, N.A.O.; Mirafzal, B.; , "Analysis of Stator Winding Inter-Turn Short-Circuit Faults in Induction Machines for Identification of the Faulty Phase," Industry Applications Conference, 2006. 41st IAS Annual Meeting.
Presentations Given •
Invited guest speaker, ECCE Department, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 2013
•
Invited guest speaker, WEMPEC Symposium, University of Wisconsin –Madison, Madison, WI, 2012
Scientific and Professional Societies of Which a Member •
Senior Member, IEEE, 2011-present
•
Co-founder/Vice-Chair, IEEE Power Electronics Chapter, IEEE Milwaukee GOLD
•
Chair of IEEE power & Energy chapter in Great Milwaukee area.
Honors and Awards •
Rockwell Automation Capture the Moment, 2015
•
IEEE Power and Energy Society transaction prize paper, 2012
Milwaukee School of Engineering • 1025 North Broadway • Milwaukee, WI 53202-3109 • (414) 277-7300 • www.msoe.edu
Page 6 of 6 •
Rockwell Automation Capture the Moment, 2010
•
Rockwell Automation Innovation Award, 2009
•
Rockwell Automation Capture the Moment, 2007
Institutional and Professional Service •
Session Chair, Applied Power Electronics Conference, 2011
•
Reviewer, IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics.
Special Qualifications •
Technical Software Packages: o DSP programming: Code composer studio C2000 & C3000 DSP families o Modeling & analysis: Matlab model based design and automatic code generation o Simulink, control system design toolbox, filter design toolbox and simpowersystems o Finite element analysis: Magsoft (Flux 2D) - Ansoft (Maxwell3D,Q3D). o Electronic system modeling: Ansoft (Simplorer) o Programming languages: C/C++
•
Languages: Arabic (Mother tongue), English (Fluent in writing and speaking)
Milwaukee School of Engineering • 1025 North Broadway • Milwaukee, WI 53202-3109 • (414) 277-7300 • www.msoe.edu
