Iqbal Husain

ABB Distinguished Professor Director, FREEDM Center
 919-513-5927
  iqbal_husain@ncsu.edu
 100-19 Keystone Science Center
 Campus Box 7571
 ORCiD

Biography

Dr. Husain joined the ECE department at North Carolina State University as a Distinguished Professor after serving as a faculty member at the University of Akron, Ohio for seventeen years. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX in 1993.

Dr. Husain’s research interests are in the areas of control and modeling of electrical drives, design of electric machines, development of power conditioning circuits, microinverters for distributed power generation, inverter controls for grid synchronization, and modeling of electric and hybrid vehicle systems. He has worked extensively on the development of SR and PM motor drives for various automotive and industrial applications. The research contributions on electric machines are in the areas of design optimizations, sensorless and high performance controls, acoustic noise prediction, and parameter identification methods.

The primary application of Dr. Husain’s work is in the transportation, automotive, and aerospace industries. As a result of this exposure, Dr. Husain has developed courses for graduate and undergraduate education in electric and hybrid vehicles, and published the textbook Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Design Fundamentals.

Education

  • Ph.D. 1993
    Electrical Engineering
    Texas A&M University, College Station
  • Master's 1989
    Electrical Engineering
    Texas A&M University, College Station
  • Bachelor's 1987
    Electrical Engineering
    Bangladesh Unviersity of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka

Research Focus

  • Power Electronics and Power Systems
 

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