Author Dr. Iqbal Husain is the ABB Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. He is also the Director of the FREEDM NSF Engineering Research Center and the Director of Power Electronics for the PowerAmerica Institute at North Carolina State University. Prior to joining NC State, he was at the University of Akron where he built a successful power electronics and motor drives program. He was a visiting Professor at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, in 2001. He worked as a summer researcher for Wright Patterson AFB Laboratories in 1996 and 1997.
Professor Husain received his PhD in electri- cal engineering from Texas A&M University in 1993. Professor Husain’s research interests are in the areas of control and modeling of electrical drives, design of electric machines, systems controls for power conditioning circuits, electric and hybrid vehicles, and renewable energy systems. He has worked extensively with switched reluc- tance and permanent magnet motor drives in the areas of design optimizations, sensorless and high-performance controls, acoustic noise prediction and parameter identification methods. In the FREEDM center, his research is focused on power electronics integration into power systems.
The primary applications of his work are in the transportation, automotive, aerospace and power industries. Professor Husain first developed a course on electric and hybrid vehicles in 1996 at the University of Akron prior to these cars gaining their popularity. He was the lead faculty advisor for the Department of Energy and General Motors sponsored Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility competition between 2004 and 2008. Professor Husain, along with his graduate students, received many prize paper and best paper awards in IEEE conferences, IEEE Transactions and other symposiums over the years.
He received the 2006 SAE Vincent Bendix Automotive Electronics Engineering Award, the 2004 College of Engineering Outstanding Researcher Award, the 2000 IEEE Third Millennium Medal and the 1998 IEEE-IAS Outstanding Young Member Award. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1997. He became an IEEE Fellow in 2009. He was the Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Industry Applications Society for 2012–2013. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine from 2015 to 2019. xix