Review
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An expert guide to total power solutions, updated with three new
chapters covering renewable energy, energy transmission and
energy storage
About the Author
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Muhammad H. id is employed by the Florida
Polytechnic University as a Professor of Electrical Engineering.
Previously he was employed by the University of West Florida,
Pensacola, Florida as a professor of electrical and computer
engineering. He was also employed by the University of Florida as
Professor and Director of UF/UWF Joint Program. id received
B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Bangladesh
University of Engineering and Technology, and M.Sc. and Ph.D.
degrees from the University of Birmingham in UK. Previously, he
worked as Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Chair of
the Engineering Department at Indiana University- Purdue
University at Fort Wayne. Also, he worked as Visiting Assistant
Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of
Connecticut, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at
Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), Professor of Electrical
Engineering at Purdue University Calumet, and Visiting Professor
of Electrical Engineering at King Fahd university of Petroleum
and Minerals (Saudi Arabia), as a design and development engineer
with Brush Electrical Machines Ltd. (England, UK), a Research
Engineer with Lucas Group Research Centre (England, UK), a
Lecturer and Head of Control Engineering Department at the Higher
Institute of Electronics (in Libya & Malta).
Dr. id is actively involved in teaching, researching, and
lecturing in electronics, power electronics, and professional
ethics. He has published 22 books listed in the US Library of
Congress and more than 160 technical papers. His books are
adopted as textbooks all over the world. His book, Power
electronics has translations in Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian,
Korean, Italian, Chinese, Persian, and Indian edition. His book,
Microelectronics has translations in Spanish in Mexico and in
Spain, Italian, and Chinese.
He has received many invitations from foreign governments and
agencies to give keynote lectures and consult, by foreign
universities to serve as an external examiner for undergraduate,
master's and Ph.D. examinations, by funding agencies to review
research proposals, and by U.S. and foreign universities to
evaluate promotion cases for professorship. Dr. id has worked
as a regular employee or consultant in Canada, Korea, United
Kingdom, Singapore, Malta, Libya, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia,
Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Dr. id has traveled to almost all
States in USA and many countries to lecture and present papers
(Japan, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand,
Singapore, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, United Arab
Emirates, Qatar, Libya, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Malta, Italy,
Greece, United Kingdom, Brazil, and Mexico).
He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology
(IET, UK) and a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE, USA). He was elected as an IEEE
Fellow with the citation “Leadership in power electronics
education and contributions to the analysis and design
methodologies of solid-state power converters. Dr. id is the
recipient of the 1991 Outstanding Engineer Award from The
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He
received the 2002 IEEE Educational Activity Award (EAB)
Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education with the
following citation "for contributions to the design and delivery
of continuing education in power electronics and
computer-aided-simulation". He is the recipient of the 2008 IEEE
Undergraduate Teaching Award with citation: For his distinguished
leadership and dedication to quality undergraduate electrical
engineering education, motivating students and publication of
outstanding textbooks. He is also the recipient of the IEEE 2013
Industry Applications Society Outstanding Achievement Award.
Dr. id is an ABET program evaluator for electrical and
computer engineering (and also from 1995-2000) and was an
engineering evaluator for the Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools (SACS, USA). He is also an ABET program evaluator for
(general) engineering program. He is the Series Editors of Power
Electronics and Applications, and Nanotechnology and Applications
with the CRC Press. He serves as the Editorial Advisor of
Electric Power and Energy with Elsevier Publishing. Also a Series
editor of Energy Systems in Electrical Engineering with Springer
Publishing. He lectures and conducts workshops on Outcome-Based
Education (OBE) and its implementations including assessments.
Dr. id is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Education
Society and a Regional Speaker (previously Distinguished Lecture)
for the IEEE Industrial Applications Society. He also authored a
book on “The Process of Outcome-Based Education - Implementation,
Assessment and Evaluations.2012 UiTM Press, Malaysia.
