Dr.Osama A. Mohammed

Professor O. A. Mohammed, Ph.D., Fellow IEEE, Fellow ACES
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Florida International University
College of Engineering & Computing
Lab Director: Energy Systems Research Laboratory
E-mail Address:  mohammed@fiu.edu

Dr. Osama Mohammed is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Energy Systems Research Laboratory at Florida International University. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He published numerous journal articles over the past 30 years in areas relating to computational electromagnetics and in design optimization of electromagnetic devices, Artificial Intelligence Applications to Energy Systems. He authored and co-authored more than 300 technical papers in the archival literature. He has conducted research work for government and research laboratories  in shipboard power conversion systems and integrated motor drives. He is also interested in the application communication and sensor networks for the distributed control of smart power grids. He has been successful in obtaining a number of research contracts and grants from industries and Federal government agencies on projects related to these areas. Professor Mohammed also published several book chapters including; Chapter 8 on direct current machinery in the Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, 15th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2007 and a book Chapter entitled ” Optimal Design of Magnetostatic Devices: the genetic Algorithm Approach and System Optimization Strategies,” in the Book entitled: Electromagnetic Optimization by Genetic Algorithms, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

Professor Mohammed is a Fellow of IEEE and is the recipient of the IEEE PES 2010 Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award. Dr. Mohammed is also a Fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society. He is Editor of IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Power Engineering Letters and also an Editor of COMPEL. Professor Mohammed is the current President of the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society (ACES). He received many awards for excellence in research, teaching and service to the profession and has delivered numerous invited lectures at scientific organizations around the world.

Professor Mohammed has been the general chair of several international conferences including; ACES 2006, IEEE-CEFC 2006, IEEE-IEMDC 2009, IEEE-ISAP 1996 and COMPUMAG-1993. He has also chaired technical programs for other major international conferences including; IEEE-CEFC 2010, IEEE-CEFC-2000 and the 2004 IEEE Nanoscale Devices and System Integration. Dr. Mohammed also organized and taught many short courses on power systems, Electromagnetics and intelligent systems in the U.S.A and abroad. Professor Mohammed has served ACES in various capacities for many years. He also serves IEEE in various Boards, committees and working groups at the national and international levels.

Professional Appointments

• Tenured Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida. 1991 ‑ present.
• Associate Chairman and Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida. 2002 – 2006.
• Tenured Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida. August 1987 ‑ 1991.
• Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida. August 1983 ‑ 1987.
• Frequent Consultant to numerous companies and Federal Agencies for services in electrical energy systems, electromagnetics, energy conservation and biomedical applications, 1984-present.

Synergetic Activities in Education, Research and Student  Development Efforts:

• Dr. Osama A. Mohammed has been instrumental in involving a large number of undergraduate students in research and internship experiences in STEM areas over the past 15 years.  During this period he has participated in the Summer Faculty Research Program as a senior and Distinguished Research Fellow for more than 12 years bringing with him undergraduate student interns who are US citizens from minority groups. He has spent significant times at NSWCCD working with many colleagues and has gained a clear appreciation for significance of developing STEM talent and guiding the students to become leaders in supporting ONR and DoD missions.
• Dr. Mohammed has proposed the ONR Scholar program within a number of his ONR funded projects over the past several years. This  program resulted in the involvement of more than 70 undergraduate students annually in research and professional development experiences which led most of these student to joining the workforce and/or continuing their graduate studies. Many of these students were involved as interns at the Energy Systems Research Laboratory (ESRL) at FIU or at NSWCCD in Philadelphia and Carderock. Other students have received excellent laboratory experiences and mentorships from faculty and graduate students at the laboratory. Several students have also participated in presenting and publishing their work results at ONR and NAVSEA project meetings as well as ASNE and IEEE conferences.
• The Energy Systems Research Laboratory (ESRL) was developed through funding from ONR  over the past 7 years. This laboratory has significant hardware, software and instrument capabilities which allow research and educational demonstration activities to verify educational and theoretical ideas. It is now being used in conjunction with several undergraduate and graduate courses. Students are utilizing these facilities to complete capstone senior design projects and graduate degree projects by building their testing setups from simulation to implementation stages. Product development environments and emulators as available in this laboratory are available for student and training use.
• The Power Systems Smart Grid demonstration project is a hardware/software/communication platform built at the Energy Systems Research Laboratory for real time control with hardware in the loop.  This Smart Grid is a self -managing and reliable smart grid facility that is developed and presented as the future of protection and control systems for self healed operation. The system involves AC and DC infrastructures to enable the utilization of sustainable alternate energy sources. The test bed involves hardware representing  generation stations, transmission lines, synchronizers, data acquisition system, Loads emulators in addition to the utilization of new wireless communication layers to enable smart power sharing among available resources. Pulse load hardware emulators are also being implemented on the DC side to examine the practical use of systems such as charging of Plug in Hybrid Vehicles.  Synchronized phasor measurements are used for real time measurements to enable hardware in the loop simulation. This enables applications such as validation of system models, measurement of stability margins, maximizing stable system loading, islanding detection, and system-wide disturbance monitoring.
• Professor Mohammed has also been part of several STEM projects funded by the US department of Education at FIU Center for Diversity in Engineering and Computing as a Co-PI. This include the GEAR UP programs (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs). These programs focus on enhancing the academic, personal, and emotional development of students and their families.  This program aims to develop and cultivate the self-expectation of success in each student.
• Professor Mohammed has been instrumental in establishing and guiding the South Florida Regional Future City Competition of the National Engineers Week Future City Competition as regional coordinator for the past 11 years. This program provides a fun and exciting educational engineering program for sixth, seventh- and eighth-grade students that combines a stimulating engineering challenge with a “hands-on” application to present their vision of a city of the future. This will be accomplished by; 1) fostering engineering skills, such as teamwork, communication and problem solving skills; 2) providing interaction among students, teachers, and engineer mentors; 3) Informing the community about the multi-disciplines within the engineering profession; and 4) Inspiring students to explore futuristic concepts and careers in engineering. The National Engineers Week Future City Competition requires; problem-solving, team work, research and presentation skills, practical math and science applications, and computer skills.

Research and Scholarly Accomplishments

• Professor Mohammed is an accomplished researcher and an educator. He has over 30 years of teaching, curriculum development, research and industrial consulting experience. He authored and co-authored more than 300 technical papers in the archival literature as well as in National and International Conference records in addition to additional numerous technical and project reports and monographs. In addition he is and author of several book chapters in his field of expertise. His publications has excellent citation records by others in these fields of expertise.
• Professor Mohammed specializes in Electrical Energy Systems especially in areas related to alternate and renewable energy systems and  design optimization of electromagnetic devices, He is current interest in shipboard power systems and integrated motor drives. He is also interested in the application communication and sensor networks for the distributed control of power grids. Dr. Mohammed has been successful in obtaining a number of research contracts and grants from industries and Federal government agencies. He has a current active and funded research programs in several areas funded by the office of Naval Research. Professor Mohammed is also interested in developing learning environments and educational techniques for Internet based delivery systems and virtual laboratories.
• Professor Mohammed is a Fellow of IEEE and is a Fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society. He is the recipient of the prestigious IEEE 2010 Power and Energy Society Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award as well as the recipient of the 2010 technical leadership award from the IEEE Magnetics Society.  He is Editor of IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Editor in Chief for IEEE Transactions on Magnetics-Conference, Editor of Power Engineering Letters and Editor of COMPEL. Professor Mohammed is the current President of the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society (ACES).

Earned Degrees

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, May 1983.
• M.S.E.E., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, September 1980.
• B.S.E.E. (With Distinction and First Class Honors), Zaqazig University, Egypt, June 1977.

Research Funding and other Honors and Awards

• Obtained major research funding from Federal agencies and industrial sources totaling $18 Million over the past 12 years including awards from; ONR, ARO, DoE, DoED and NSF.
• Nemours invited lectures at many scientific and industrial organizations in North America and Worldwide.
• Professorial Excellence Award, Florida International University, 1999
• Outstanding IEEE Student Chapter Counselor/Advisor for 1990/1991.
• Meritorious Service Award and Technical Achievement Award, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society, 2007 and 1995.
• Outstanding Service to the Profession Award, Florida Engineering Society, August 1991.
• Excellence in Research/Scholarship Award for 1987, Florida International University.
• Excellence in Service Award for 1990, Florida International University.
• General Chair of five major national and international conferences
• Technical Program Chair for three major international conferences.
• Member of international steering committees for several international conferences.
• Member of the Florida Power and Light Company Consumer Advisory Board, 1996-2000.
• IEEE Power and Energy Society Governing Board member and Chairman of the society constitution and bylaws committee. Currently, Chairman of the Miami Section of IEEE.

Most Recent Publications:

• Mahmoud Amin and Osama Mohammed, “DC-Bus Voltage Control Technique for Parallel-Integrated Permanent Magnet Wind Generation Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 1140-1150, December 2011.
• Mahmoud Amin and Osama Mohammed, “Wide Area Measurement System for Smart Grid Applications Involving Hybrid Energy Sources,” Accepted for Springer Journal on Energy Systems # ENSY-D-11-00046.
• Amin, M.M.; Mohammed, O.A.; , “Development of High-Performance Grid-Connected Wind Energy Conversion System for Optimum Utilization of Variable Speed Wind Turbines,” Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on , vol.2, no.3, pp.235-245, July 2011
• M. M. Amin and O. A. Mohammed, “A Three-Phase High Frequency Semi-Controlled Battery Charging Power Converter for Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles,” Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 11, no. 4, pp.490-498, 2011
• Sarikhani and O. A. Mohammed, “Multi-Objective Design Optimization of Coupled PM Synchronous Motor-Drive Using Physics-Based Modeling Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, to appear May 2011.
• Andrew Rosales, Ali Sarikhani O. A. Mohammed , “Evaluation of Radiated EMI Due to High Frequency Switching in Pulse Width Modulated Motor Drives,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics-2010, to appear on May 2011.
• M. Amin, and O. A. Mohammed, “Development of High-Performance Grid-Connected WECS for Optimum Utilization of Variable Speed Wind Turbines,” IEEE Transactions for Sustainable Energy, to appear September 2011.
• O. A. Mohammed  and S. Ganu, “FE-Circuit Coupled Model of Electric Machines for Simulation and Evaluation of EMI Issues in Motor Drives” IEEE transaction on magnetics, vol. 46, No.8, pp.3389-3392, August 2010.
• N. Y. Abed, and O. A. Mohammed, “Physics-Based High-Frequency Transformer Modeling by Finite Elements, ” IEEE transaction on magnetics, Vol. 46, no.8, pp.3249-3252, August 2010.
• Z. Liu, O. A. Mohammed, and S. Liu, “Equivalent hardware representation of PM synchronous motors from the physics-based phase variable model obtained through FE computation,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 45, No.3, pp.1450-1453, March 2009..
• O. A. Mohammed, Nagy Y. Abed, “Real-time simulation of electric machine drives with hardware-in-the-loop,” The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering COMPEL, Volume 27, Issue 4, 2008.
• O. A. Mohammed, S. Ganu, N. Y. Abed, S. Liu, and Z. Liu, ”High frequency phase variable model of electric machines from electromagnetic field computations,” Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, March 2007, pp. 164-171.
• O. A. Mohammed, S. Liu, and Z. Liu, “FE-based physical phase variable model of PM synchronous machines under stator winding short circuit faults, “to appear in the Proceedings of IEE (Currently IET) on Science, Measurement, and Technology, 2007.
• O. A. Mohammed, N. Y. Abed, S. Ganu, and S. Liu, “Modeling and Characterization of Induction Motor Internal Faults Using Finite-Element and Discrete Wavelet Transformers,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 42, No. 10, October 2006, pp. 3434-3436.
• Sarikhani and O. A. Mohammed,  “Electromagnetic Field Computation with External Circuit Coupling for Evaluating the Performance of Electric Motor Designs,” Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society, Oct-2010.
• Sarikhani, A.; Mohammed, O.A.; , “Hybrid GA-PSO multi-objective design optimization of coupled PM synchronous motor-drive using physics-based modeling approach,” 14th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC), 2010 pp.1, 9-12 May 2010.
• Ali Sarikhani, Wilder Saint-Hilaire and Osama A. Mohammed, “Design Improvement of Coupled IPM Motor-Drive using Physics-Based Motor Model and Evolutionary Approaches,” IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Atlanta,Sept-2010.
• Nejadpak, A.; Mirafzal, B.; Mohammed, O.; Lixiang Wei; , “Effects of different switching algorithms on the thermal behavior of IGBT modules under pulse-load conditions,” IECON 2010 – 36th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society , vol., no., pp.451-456, 7-10 Nov. 2010.
• Ali Sarikhani, O.  A.  Mohammed, “Design Challenges of Radial-Flux Synchronous Motors with a Common Stator,” Electric Machines Technology Symposium, Philadelphia, May-2010.
• Sarikhani, Ali; Mirafzal, Behrooz; Mohammed, Osama; , “Inter-turn fault diagnosis of PM synchronous generator for variable speed wind applications using floating-space-vector,” 36th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society , vol., no., pp.2628-2633, 7-10 Nov. 2010.
• Sarikhani, A.; Saint-Hilaire, W.; Mohammed, O.A.; , “A Study on the effect of PM machine design parameters changes on performance measures,” IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2010, pp.1-5, 25-29 July 2010.
• Mohammed, O.A.; Rosales, A.; Sarikhani, A.; , “Evaluation of radiated Electromagnetic Field Interference due to frequency switching in PWM motor drives by 3D finite elements,” 14th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC), 2010 , pp.1, 9-12 May 2010.
• Ali Sarikhani, and O. A. Mohammed, “Fast Inter-Turn Fault modeling and diagnosis of a variable speed PM Machines by Physics-based modeling approach,” 14th International IGTE Symposium, Sept-2010.
• Amin, Mahmoud; Elshaer, Mohamed; Mohammed, Osama , “DC Bus Voltage Control for PV Sources in a DC Distribution System Infrastructure,” IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Minneapolis, USA, vol., no., 25-29 Jul. 2010.
• M .Amin and O. A. Mohammed, “DC-bus voltage control of three-phase PWM converters connected to wind powered induction generator,” 2010 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES GM 2010), vol., no., pp.1-7, 25-29 July 2010.
• M. Amin, B. Mirafzal, O. A. Mohammed, “A dc-bus voltage regulation for parallel wind-based synchronous generators,” 36th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society IECON 2010, vol., no., pp.3161-3166, 7-10 Nov. 2010.
• M. Amin, and O. A. Mohammed, “Software Phase Locked Loop technique for grid-connected wind energy conversion systems,” IEEE 12th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power electronics (COMPEL) 2010 conference, vol., no., pp.1-8, 28-30 June 2010.
• M. Amin, and O. A. Mohammed, “Power quality improvement of grid-connected wind energy conversion system for optimum utilization of variable speed wind turbines,” 36th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society IECON 2010, vol., no., pp.3287-3292, 7-10 Nov. 2010.
• M. Amin, and O. A. Mohammed, ” Vector oriented control of voltage source PWM inverter as a dynamic VAR compensator for WECS connected to utility grid,” Twenty-Fifth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC) conference, 2010, vol., no., pp.1640-1650, 21-25 Feb. 2010.
• Ali Kaviani, Mohamed Elshaer, Osama Mohammed, “Enhancing loading limitations in PV systems,” Industrial Electronic Conference, IECON 2010, Phoenix, AZ, 7-10 Nov- 2010.
• Mohamed, M. Elshaer and O. Mohammed, “Reactive Power Compensation Control for Stand-Alone Synchronous Generator-Based Wind Energy Conversion Systems,” International Conference on Computation in Electromagnetics, Phoenix, AZ, USA, Nov. 7-10, 2010.
• A. Mohamed and O. Mohammed, “Power Flow Control in DC Distribution Systems,”  Proc. of the North American Power Symposium, NAPS, The University of Texas at Arlington, Sept. 26-28, 2010.
• M. Amin, F. El-Sousy, M. Ghazy, and M. Abu-Adma, “DC-Bus Voltage Control of Three-Phase AC/DC PWM Converters for Renewable Energy Applications,” IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC) 2009, vol. I, pp. 260-269, Miami, USA, 3-6 May 2009.
• Khan, A.A.; Mohammed, O.A.; , “Gradient descent based optimization for position and speed estimation of permanent magnet synchronous motor at low speed,” IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, 2009., pp.1-5, 26-30 July 2009.
• Khan, A.A.; Mohammed, O.A.; , “Parameter optimization for sensorless position and speed control of permanent magnet motor at low speed using genetic algorithm,” IEEE/PES Power Systems Conference and Exposition, 2009., pp.1-5, 15-18 March 2009.
• Khan, Ahmad Arshan; Mohammed, Osama; , “Wavelet filtering for position estimation of permanent magnet machine in carrier signal injection based sensorless control,” North American Power Symposium (NAPS), 2009 , pp.1-5, 4-6 Oct. 2009.
• Mohammed, O.A.; Liu, S.; Liu, Z.; Khan, A.A.; , “Improved physics-based permanent magnet synchronous machine model obtained from field computation,” IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference, 2009., pp.1088-1093, 3-6 May 2009.
• Mohammed, O.A.; Liu, Z.; Liu, S.; , “Equivalent hardware representation of pm synchronous machines realized by a physics-based machine model for hardware-in-the-loop simulation applications,” 34th Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics, 2008. Pp.1185-1188, 10-13 Nov-2008.
• Mohammed, O.A.; Henao, L.; Rojas, F.; Khan, A.A.; , “Experimental real-time voltage and frequency controllers for a synchronous generator implemented in a laboratory power system test-bed,” 34th Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics, 2008., pp.3503-3506, 10-13 Nov. 2008.
• Mohammed, O.A.; Liu, Z.; Liu, S.; , “HIL simulation of machine drives utilizing the physics-based phase variable model of machines,” IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting – Conversion and Delivery of Electrical Energy in the 21st Century, 2008, pp.1-6, 20-24 July 2008.
• Mohammed, O.A.; Liu, S.; Liu, Z.; , “Physics-based phase variable model of machines and transformers from electromagnetic field computations,” World Automation Congress, 2008., pp.1-5, Sept. 28 2008-Oct. 2 2008.
• Liu, Z.; Mohammed, O.A.; Liu, S.; , “An improved physics-based phase variable model of PM synchronous machines obtained through field computation,” IET 7th International Conference on Computation in Electromagnetics, 2008., pp.166-167, 7-10 April 2008.
• Ahmed A. Khan, O. A. Mohammed, “Neural Network based Modeling of Audible Noise for High Frequency Injection based Position Estimation for PM Synchronous Motors at Low and Zero speed”, IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium (ESTS 09), Baltimore, 20-22 April 2009.

Recent Book Chapters

• Mohammed, O. A. (41 Pages) Section 8 in Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, 15^th Edition, McGraw-Hill, Edited by Wayne Beaty and Donald Fink, 2007
• Mohammed, O. A., (53 pages) Book Chapter entitled ” Optimal Design of magnetostatic Devices: the genetic Algorithm Approach and System Optimization Strategies,” in the Book entitled: Electromagnetic Optimization by Genetic Algorithms, Edited by Yahya-Rahmat Samii and Eric Michielssen, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-29545-0, 1999.