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by Warsame Hassan Ali (Author), Matthew N. O. Sadiku (Author), Samir Abood (Author)
This book presents the relation of power quantities of the machine as the current, voltage power flow, power losses, and efficiency.The purpose of this book is to provide a good understanding of the machine behavior and its drive, and it is intended for students both in community colleges and universities.
Author Biography
Dr. Warsame H. Ali received his BSc from King Saud University Electrical Engineering Department, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and his MS from Prairie View A &M University, Prairie View, Texas. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Houston, Houston, Texas. Dr. Ali was promoted to associate professor and tenured in 2010 and to the Full professor to 2017. As a faculty fellow, Dr. Ali joined NASA, Glenn Research Center, in the Summer of 2005, and Texas Instruments (TI) in 2006. Dr. Ali has given several invited talks and is also the author more than 100 research articles in major scientific journals and conferences. Dr. Ali has received several awards from NSF, NAVSEA, AFRL, and DOE. At present, he is teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Prairie View A & M University. His main research interests are the application of digital PID Controllers, digital methods to electrical measurements, and mixed-signal testing techniques, power systems, HVDC power transmission, sustainable power and energy systems, power electronics and motor drives, electric and hybrid vehicles, and control system. Samir I. Abood received his BSc and MSc from the University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq in 1996 and 2001 respectively. From 1997 to 2001, he worked as an engineer at the same university. From 2001 to 2003, he was an assistant professor at the University of Baghdad and at AL-Nahrain University, and from 2003 to 2016. Mr. Abood was an assistant professor at Middle Technical University / Baghdad - Iraq. Presently, he is doing his Ph.D. in an electrical power system in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Prairie 16 View A & M University. He is the author of 25 papers and 3 books. His main research interests are in the area of sustainable power and energy system, microgrid, power electronics, and motor drives, and control system. Matthew O. Sadiku received his BSc in 1978 from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, and his MSc and Ph.D. from Tennessee Technological University was an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University, where he did graduate work in computer science. From 1988 to 2000, he was at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he became a full professor. From 2000 to 2002, he worked with Lucent/ Avaya, Holmdel, New Jersey, as a system engineer and with Boeing Satellite Systems as a senior scientist. At present, he is a professor at Prairie View A & M University.
