PLENARY SESSION
At ICAAID and ICPEA 2015, there will be three Plenary Session presented by the leading researchers in the world on Applied Automation systems and Power electronics and their wide applications:
- Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Sherif, President and CEO of Photonics, Inc. & Photonics Laboratories, Inc. USA
- Prof Kamal Mohammedi, MESONexusTeam, Modelling, Simulation and Optimization of Alternative and Sustainable Systems, UMBB Boumerdès, Algeria
- Prof Fulcieri Maltini, University of Rome, Italy
- Dr Mohamed Orabi, Director of the Aswan Power Electronics Application Research Center (APEARC), Aswan University
Smart Systems | |
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Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Sherif Photonics, Inc. & Photonics Laboratories, Inc. President and CEO Invited Member of the Canadian International Expert Panel on R&D (2004-Present) Past: Prof. of Materials and Electrical and Computer Engineering Founder and Director Fiber Optics and Photonics Engineering Center Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA (1989-2011) Websites: http://www.photonicslabs.com ; http://www.photonicsonfiber.com Email: melsherif@photonicslabs.com |
Dr. El-Sherif Has forty-five years of experience in academia and in industrial technology development. His expertise ranges from Academic Professor, R&D, curriculum development, and supervising PhD and MS theses, to industrial innovation in research and in development of advance technologies. In academia, he has served as Faculty Professor, Center Director, Dean of Engineering, and in industry, he has served as Chief Technology Officer, President, and Chief Executive Officer. He was the Founder and Director of the Drexel Fiber Optics and Photonics Engineering Center as a Center of Excellence to the State of Pennsylvania. Dr. El‐Sherif has been invited by the Canadian Networks of Centers of Excellence (NCE), to serve on several International Expert Panels, since 2004 (the panel is seven members from US, Europe, and Canada) to review and approve new Programs on the establishment of new Canadian Centers of Excellence, as well as on regular evaluation The Canadian National Centers of Excellence for approval of any future funding. The NCE programs Are jointly administered by Canada’s three federal granting agencies: the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) And the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), in partnership With Industry Canada and Health Canada. |
Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems for Integrated Power Production | |
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Pr Kamal Mohammedi Head of MESONexusTeam, Modelling, Simulation and Optimization of Alternative and Sustainable Systems, Faculty of Engineering, M. Bougara University, Boumerdès 35000 DZ, Algeria. URL: http://www.univ-boumerdes.dz Email: mohammedi.kamal@umbb.dz |
Pr Kamal MOHAMMEDI is a Senior Lecturer of Applied Numerical Methods, Multiphase Flow, Solar Thermal Energy and Renewable Energy, Since 1993, at M. Bougara University, Boumerdès/ Algeria, Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his M Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Boumerdès National Institute of Mechanical Engineering (INGM) Algeria, in 1985 and his Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies and PhD degrees in Process Engineering from the INSA de Lyon, France, in 1992. Head of the Modelling Simulation and Optimization of Alternative and Sustainable Systems (MESONexusteam), he has been involved in 2 FP7 European projects and 10 national projects in the field of hybrid renewable enrgy systems. He is the author and co-author of more than 30 published papers and 100 conference articles in the field of Renewable Energy, Optimization, soft computing and multiphase flows interface tracking and consults for industry. |
Supply Chain Resource Sustainability | |
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Dr Ing Fulcieri Maltini, SMIEEE, PES, COMSOC Email: fulcierimaltini@ieee.org |
Dr.Ing. Fulcieri Maltini holds a Doctorate in Electronics Engineering from the University of Rome, Italy and several European and US management diplomas. He started his professional activity in 1961 as professor of Microwaves at the University of Rome. He then joined Selenia/Raytheon where he was involved in radar research. He then moved to CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland where he was responsible for high energy physics processing and data acquisition. This was followed by a management employment across Europe and the USA with Westinghouse Electric and Framatome in charge of the transfer of nuclear reactor technology. Later he worked on the design and planning of a nuclear-powered icebreaker ship for the Canadian Coast Guards at Alsthom-Atlantique. In 1980 he was appointed managing director of SociétéGénérale pour l'Industriea consulting firm in Switzerland, followed by a senior position with Elektrowatt Engineering overseeing the development of international projects of conventional and renewable energy, energy efficiency, technology transfer and venture capital. In 1994 he joined the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - EBRD in London where he was responsible for the Nuclear Safety Account, the fund created for the decommissioning and closure of Soviet built Nuclear Power plants including Chernobyl in Ukraine, Ignalina in Lithuania, Saint Petersburg in Russia and several others in Eastern Europe. In 1997 he returned to independent consulting activities, advising Governments, International Institutions, the European Commission and industry on sustainable development, environmental sciences, conventional, renewable energy technologies, biofuels, energy efficiency and industrial legislations. This included the validation and industrialization of innovative technologies and the establishment of spinoff companies from Universities in Europe and Academies and Research Centres in Russia and Ukraine and cooperation with British Universities. His recent activities included the development and construction of a EU financed photovoltaic power plant in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the largest and unique on the Cyprus island. Dr Maltini has recently joined the Sheffield University Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre (AREC) which has the aim to support the initiative on Supply Chain Resource Sustainability whoseobjectiveis to increase the sustainability of the industrial supply chain and to reduce consumption and climate change emissions. Dr Maltini speaks four languages and is frequently invited to major conference events to give lectures at various institutional forums. Dr Ing. Maltini is a senior life member of IEEE and member of the IEEE Power & Energy Society and the IEEE Communications Society. |
Power Supply Integration – Is it the way to go ? | |
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Dr Mohamed Orabi Email: morabi@apearc.aswu.edu.eg |
Mohamed Orabi was born in 1974 at Qena, Egypt. He received the M.S. degree from El-Minia University, El-Minia, Egypt, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 2004. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Aswan University, Egypt. He is the Founder and the Former Director of the Aswan Power Electronics Application Research Center (APEARC), Aswan University. Also, he was with Enpirion Inc. and Altera Corp. for several years (June 2011 – July 2014) where he was the Senior Manager of Altera-Egypt Technology Center. Dr. Orabi has led several projects funded by STDF, ENPIRION and USAID in addition to several multinational projects. He has published more than 175 papers in international conferences and journals. His research interest includes power electronics applications, including switched power supply dc–dc and ac–dc power-factor-correction converters, integrated power management, the modeling and analysis of nonlinear circuits and power converter design and analysis for renewable energy applications. Dr. Orabi is actively serving as a reviewer to several international journal and conference publications including IEEE Transactions and conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE science 2008. Dr. Orabi was the recipient of the 2002 Excellent Student Award of the IEEE Fukuoka Section, the Best Paper Award of the 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE IES (2002), the IEEE-IES Student Grant from the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, and the Best Young Research Award from the IEICE Society, Japan, in 2004. Also, Dr. Orabi has received the South Valley University Encouragement Award for 2009, the National Encouragement Award in 2010 for his great achievements in the Engineering Science, Aswan University Award for Supervising Graduate Students in 2013. |