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Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi is a Fellow of IEEE. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 1980. In 1980 he joined the University of Washington as a faculty member where he is presently a Professor of Electrical Engineering. He also served as the Associate Chair and the Chairman of Graduate Studies and Research.

 

Among his major activities are:

• Author of four textbooks

  • Fundamentals of Electric Drives published by Brooks/Cole, 2000

  • Electric Energy: An Introduction published by CRC press, 2004, 2009 and 2012

  • Electric Safety: Practice and Standards Published by CRC, 2013

  • Wind Energy, An Introduction Published by CRC press, 2016

• Chairman of IEEE=PES Subcommittee on Renewable Energy Machines and Systems

• Vice President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Neural Networks Society

Editor/co-editor of several IEEE tutorial and research books on Intelligent Systems and Applications

• Member of the administrative committee of the IEEE Neural Networks Council representing the Power Engineering Society

• Multi-Media Tutorial Chair of the neural network Society

• Founding Chairman of numerous IEEE task forces and working groups and subcommittees

• Member of the editorial board and associate editor of several journals

• Organized and taught several international tutorials on intelligent systems applications, power quality, power systems, renewable energy, integration of renewable energy systems, electric safety, and induction voltage

• Chairman of the IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives, Seattle, May 1999

• Founder of the international conference on the Application of Neural Networks to Power Systems (ANNPS)

• Co-founder of the international conference on Intelligent Systems Applications to Power (ISAP)

• Organized and chaired numerous panel and special sessions in IEEE and other conferences

• Consultant on electric safety, operation and control of electric systems, devices and circuits, and intelligent systems

• Published over 220 papers and book chapters in his research areas

• Holds 5 licensed patents

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