Date of Birth : 06 October 1960

Fields of Research interest

Development and applications of analytical, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital signal processing (DSP) methods for modeling, simulation and real-time control of large-scale power and energy systems; Digital protection; Demand side management; Smart Grid; Renewable energy; Energy efficiency and conservation; Superconducting magnetic energy storage; Flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS) using power electronics devices; Wireless power transmission; Planning regional power grid.

Academic Qualifications

PhD (UMIST, UK)-1987; M.Sc.Eng. (BUET)-1984; B.Sc.Eng.(BUET)-1982

  *  UMIST-University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology

 ** BUET-Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Employment Records

Other positions held

    i) Director, Centre for Energy Studies, BUET from 1 July 2003 to 1 July 2005.

    ii) Head, Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, BUET from 1 June 2005  to 31 May 2006.

    iii) Dean, Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, BUET from 20 June 2007 to 19 June 2009.

   iv) Director in the  Governing Board of Dhaka Electric Supply Company (DESCO) Limited., a Govt.  owned  

       company responsible for distribution of power in the  northern part of Dhaka city, July 1997 to March 2000.

   v) Chairman of Electrical and Electronics Divisional Committee (EEDC) of Bangladesh Standards and Testing

         Institution, the Govt. organization for national standards; January 2007- December 2009.

    vi) Director in the  Governing Board of Power Grid Company of  Bangladesh (PGCB) Limited , the national

         grid owner and operator, February  2008 -December 2010.

   vii) Director in the Governing Board of  Dhaka Power Distribution Company (DPDC) Limited, a Govt.  owned

         company  responsible for  distribution of power in the southern  part of Dhaka city and  Narayanganj District

         town, April 2008 - November 2009.

Major Scholarships and Awards   

1.      Commonwealth scholarship by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, U.K., for doing Ph.D. at UMIST, England; 1985-1987.

2.    “2nd Annual Research Excellence Award; 1998” by the Southern California Chapter of American Association of Bangladeshi Engineers & Architects for the paper "Development of a Three - Part Time-of-Day Electrical Energy Tariff " that was adjudged as the best one in the 1998 contest on refereed publications received from Bangladeshi researchers.   

3.       “Laureate of the annual (2002) competition” by the Royal academy of Overseas Sciences, Belgium for the study “Photovoltaic Supplement to Diesel Generator Based Supply in an Off-grid Location of East Malaysia” that was adjudged as the best one among the studies received under the category of Technical Sciences from international researchers.  

4. “BAS-M.O. Ghani Gold Medal 2003” by Bangladesh Academy of Sciences in recognition of contributions in the field of electrical and electronic engineering.

Publications

Over 60 publications.

Recent papers (in Refereed International Journals) and Book Chapters

 1) S. Shahnawaz Ahmed,  S.Bashar, A.K.Chatterjee, M.A.Salam and H.B.Ahmad : "Use of superconducting magnetic  energy storage device in a power system to permit delayed tripping", IEE  (U.K.) Proceedings- GTD, Vol. 147, No.5, September 2000, pp.269- 273.

2)  S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, Rezaul Haque, A.K.M.Rashidul Hasan , Md. Aminul Haque Siddiqui, Md. Abdus Salam  and Hussein Bin Ahmad: "On the Concern about the Effects of Transmission Line Electromagnetic Fields on Man and his Dwellings",  Journal of the Institution of Engineers Singapore, M&E section, Vol.40, No.6, 2000, pp.23-26.

3)      S. Shahnawaz Ahmed and Md. Mizanur Rahman : "Use of base case Jacobians  in power  flow solution  under topological changes", Computers & Electrical Engineering International Journal, (U.K.), Vol 28, No.1, January 2002, pp 17-23.

4)      S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, Mahes Rajaratnam, Hussein Ahmad and Abu Bakar Sidik : “Potential Benefits of Using Distributed Parameter Model for Transmission Lines in Power System Analysis”, IEEE (USA) Power Engineering Review, Vol. 22, No.10, October 2002, pp.53-56.

5)      S. Shahnawaz Ahmed Mohammad Tawrit, Mohd Wazir b. Mustafa, Hussein b.Ahmad, Mohd Ruddin b.Abd Ghani and Abdullah Asuhaimi b. Mohd Zin: "Novel adaptation of the critical clearing angle formula for faults on a three phase and a six phase line", Electric Power Systems Research, (U.K.), Vol. 61, No. 2, March 2002, pp.119-126.

6)      S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, Narayan Chandra Sarker, Azhar b. Khairuddin, Mohd Ruddin b. Abd Ghani and Hussein Ahmad: "A Scheme for Controlled Islanding to Prevent Subsequent Blackout", IEEE (USA) Transactions on Power Systems, Vol.18, No.1, February 2003, pp.136-143.

7)      S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, Tiow Wei Yeong, and Hussein Ahmad, "Wireless Power Transmission and its Annexure to the Grid System", IEE  (U.K.) Proceedings- GTD, Vol.150, No.2, March 2003, pp.195-199.

8)  Christopher W. Ajan, S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, Hussein B.Ahmad, Faridah Taha and Abdullah Asuhaimi B. Mohd Zin : “On the policy of photovoltaic and diesel generation mix for an off-grid site: East Malaysian perspectives”, Solar Energy  (U.K.), Vol. 74, No. 6, June 2003, pp.453-467.

9) Azhar B. Khairuddin, S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, Wazir b. Mustafa, Abdullah Asuhaimi b. Mohd Zin, and Hussein Ahmad: “A Novel Method for ATC Computations in a Large-Scale Power System”, IEEE (USA) Transactions on Power Systems, Vol.19, No.2, May 2004, pp. 1150- 1158.

10)  S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, Mahbubul Hasan, Md. E. H. Khondker, A.K.M. Moniruzzaman, and Azhar B. Khairuddin: ”Prospects of Using Time Series to Find the Maximum Power Point of a Photovoltaic Array from its Load Currents and Voltages”, Journal of Energy & Environment (Bangladesh), Vol. 3, May 2004, pp.81-90.

11)  A.S. Ahmad, P.S. Ghosh, S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, S.A.K. Aljunid: "Assessment of ESDD on high-voltage insulators using artificial neural network", Electric Power Systems Research, (U.K.), Vol. 72, No. 2, December 2004, pp.131-136.

12)  Md. Abdus Salam and S. Shahnawaz Ahmed: “A New Method for Screening the Contingencies before Dynamic Security Assessment of a Multimachine Power System”, European Transactions on Electrical Power, (U.K.), Vol. 16, No.4, July/August 2006, pp. 393 - 408 .

13)   Z. Salam, J. Aziz and S. Shahnawaz Ahmed: “Digital Implementation of a New PWM Switching Scheme for Modular Structured Multilevel Voltage Source Inverter”, Journal of Energy & Environment,  (Bangladesh), Vol. 5, May  2006, pp. 57 -  76.  

14)  S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, Md. Shah Majid, Hendri Novia, and Hasimah Abd Rahman: “Fuzzy Logic Based Energy Saving Technique for a Central Air Conditioning System”, Energy –the International Journal (U.K.), Vol. 32, No. 7, July 2007, pp.1222-1234.

15) S. Shahnawaz Ahmed and Azhar B. Khairuddin: "Fuzzy Logic in Evaluating the Impacts of MVAR Supports on ATC in a Deregulated Electricity Market" in Fuzzy Logic: Theory, Programming and Applications, Nova Science Publishers, 2009, New York, pp.355-377.

16) S. Shahnawaz Ahmed and Md. Mohsin:  “Analytical Determination of the Control Parameters for a Large Photovoltaic Generator Embedded in a Grid System”, IEEE (USA) Transactions on Sustainable Energy, Vol.2, No.2, April 2011, pp.122-130.

17) Q. Ahsan, A. Hasib Chowdhury, S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, I.H. Bhuyan, A. Haque and H. Rahman: “Technique to Develop Auto Load Shedding and Islanding Scheme to Prevent Power System Blackout”, paper No. TPWRS-00811-2010.R2, accepted for publication in IEEE (USA) Transactions on Power Systems.
 

Countries visited

USA, UK, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore.

Major Contributions towards the Advancement of Engineering Education and Profession

a) International Level:

Reviewer for a number of international journals such as:

IET GTD (formerly IEE Proc.GTD),UK,1991, 2003, 2007-2011;

IET Power Electronics, UK, 2010-2011;

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, USA, 1995;

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, USA, 2001, 2003, 2007;

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, USA, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2010-2011;

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, USA, 2002, 2005, 2009,2011;

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, USA, 2010-2011;

IEEE Power Engineering Letters, 2009,2011;

International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, UK; 1997;

Energy- the International Journal, UK, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2008-2011;

Computers and Electrical Engineering International Journal, UK; 2000;

International Journal of  Power and Energy Systems, Canada; 2008;

Building and Environment Journal, UK, 2008;

Energy and Building Journal, UK, 2009;

European Transactions on Electrical Power, UK, 2009-2011.

Elektrika- Journal of Electrical Engineering, Malaysia, 2001, 2002;

Journal Teknologi -D: Electronics, Control, Telecommunications  and IT,  Universiti Teknologi Malysia, 2001;

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; Turkey, 2005;

Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering , Iran, 2006-2007;

Reviewer for Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC2006),  10-13 December 2006, Melbourne, Australia; Students’ Conference on Research & Development (SCORED) for the Asia-Pacific region, 20-21 February 2001, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; 11^th IEEE International Multitopic Conference (INMIC) at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Lahore, Pakistan, December 28-30 December 2007. 

Global Selection Panelist for the Discovery Scholarship program of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, 2007, 2008. Participated in  the meeting of the selection panel for applicants from the South and the South-East Asia held on 12 December 2007 in Thailand.

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Energy & Environment (ISSN:1563-1362) an international journal published by Centre for Energy Studies, BUET, Bangladesh, 2004,2005.

External Examiner for a PhD thesis submitted (July 2005) to Multimedia University, Malaysia.

Member, Technical Committee of  the International Seminar and Tutorial  ‘Power Transmission – Research Interests and Challenges’ , 20 – 22^nd   December 2005, Bangalore, India.

Chair, Technical Committee of the 3^rd International Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (ICECE2004), 28-30 December 2004, Dhaka, Bangladesh;  

Chair (served from June 05 - May 06), Organizing Committee of the 4th  International Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (ICECE2006), 19-21 December 2006, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Member in the International Advisory Committee for the 2^nd IEEE international Power & Energy Conference (PECon 2008), Johor Bahru, Malaysia, 1-3 December 2008.

b) National Level in Bangladesh:

Reviewer of the Journal of the Institution of Engineers (Electrical Engineering Division) Bangladesh, 1992-1999; Member of Electrical Switches, Plugs and Socket outlet adapters Subcommittee (ET-6) of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution, (the Govt. organization for national standards),1992-1996; Expert member in the selection boards of various public and private sector organizations of Bangladesh  for employing graduate electrical engineers at junior, senior and managerial level, 1989-1998; Member of the Sub-subcommittee for developing course curriculum of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Dept. of  Bangladesh Military Institute of Science and Technology, Dhaka, 1997; Chairman of Electric Fan and other appliances Subcommittee (ET-5 of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution, 1997-1999; External Director (BUET nominated) of Dhaka Electric Supply Company (DESCO) Limited., a Govt. owned company for distributing electricity to about 0.1 million consumers in Mirpur suburb of Dhaka city, July 1997 to March 2000; Member in the expert committee formed by Power Grid Company of Bangladesh  Ltd. (PGCB) to facilitate effective transfer of technology for the National Load Despatch Centre Project financed by World Bank and Asian Development Bank,  September1999 – March 2000;  Coordinator and a resource person in the National Training Workshop on Renewable Energy Education in Bangladesh, Dhaka, 3-8 August 2003, organized by Centre for Energy Studies of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology with financial assistance from UNESCO, New Delhi; Member in the Expert Committee formed by the Power Division of Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources for standardization of the technical specifications of transformers purchased through bids invited by the public utilities and their subsidiaries such as BPDB, DESA, REB, PGCB and DESCO, October 2003; Expert member in the 3-members committee formed by BUET at the directives of the office of the Prime Minister, Government of Bangladesh (GOB) for investigation into the causes for long shut-down of the 4^th and 5^th units (each 50 MW) at Kaptai Hydroelectric Power Station of Bangladesh Power Development Board, May-June 2005; Member in an Inspection Committee formed by University Grants Commission of Bangladesh for assessing the adequacy of laboratory facilities, infrastructure and teaching strength of a private university, October 2006; Member in the Tender Evaluation Committee formed by the Power Division of Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources of GOB for evaluation of the bids for supply, installation and commissioning  inter utility programmable energy meters communicable from a central server under the World Bank financed project for Bangladesh Power Sector Reform, November-December 2006;Chairman of Electrical and Electronics Divisional Committee (EEDC) of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution, 2007-2009; Director (nominated as a technical expert) of Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) Limited, the national grid owner and operator, January 2008-date; Director (nominated as a technical expert) of Dhaka Power Distribution Company (DPDC) Limited, a Government owned enterprise, April 2008-November 2009; Member of the national committee (November - December 2007) formed by the Power Division of Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources of GOB for finding facts and making recommendations in relation to the blackouts in the Bangladesh grid system twice on 16 November 2007 following a devastating cyclone named SIDR;  Member of the national committee (December 2007- February 2008) formed by the Power Division of Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources of GOB for investigations into the cause of grid failure on 15 December 2007; Member of the  committee (May - September 2008) formed for witnessing the performance of the 5th unit (150 MW steam turbine-generator) after its rehabilitation with the finance of KfW (Germany) at Ashuganj Power Station Company Limited; Member of the  steering committee (April - October 2008) formed by the Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) of the Ministry of Planning, GoB (Government of Bangladesh) on the evaluation of Greater Rajshahi Power Distribution system up gradation Project accomplished by Bangladesh Power Development Board with the finance of KfW and OPEC; Member in the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for UNDP-GEF (Global Environmental Facility) funded and BSTI administered project BRESL (Barrier Removal to the cost effective development and implementation of Energy Standards and Labeling) for the period 2010-2014.

c) Consultancy Services for Industry:

Served as a consultant/expert member for the following projects.

•  "Study on Effects of Flicker Voltage and Harmonics on Bangladesh Grid System at the Point of Common Coupling (PCC) Due to the Planned 18 MVA Electric Arc Furnace at Chittagong Steel Mills", 1990.

• Advisory service on "Internal Electrification Works of the 2nd Annexe High Rise (30 storied) Building of Bangladesh Bank Head Office, Dhaka", 1992. 

• Conducting heat cycle test of the indigenous H and T type connectors for use in the distribution lines of Rural Electrification Board, Bangladesh, 1993 –1996. 

• Evaluating the technical proposals submitted by various International Consortiums in response to the tender floated by Bangladesh Power Development Board for appointing consultant in its Haripur (near Dhaka) Power Station Extension Project through installing a 109 MW combined cycle power plant, 1997. 

• Evaluating the technical proposals submitted by various bidders in response to the tender floated by Jalalabad Gas Transmission & Distribution Systems Limited, Bangladesh for "Supply, installation, testing and commissioning of a 1000 kVA substation together with BBT system" for its 10 storied Head Office Building at Sylhet, 1998. 

• Conducting standard tests of a variety of electrical power apparatus and appliances such as cables, fans, bulbs, switches, circuit breakers, motors, transformers, large sized AVRs etc. sent to BUET by various private and public sector industries and organizations,1988-date. 

• Team Leader in BUET experts’ Team for review , correction and updating of  the technical specifications in the Bid Documents prepared by M/S. Worley International Ltd., New Zealand for design, manufacture, supply, installation, testing  and commissioning of  a  SCADA , an EMS and a Communication backbone system covering 101 sites by  about 2250 km optical fibre cable  under a new National Load Despatch Centre Project  for the  grid  system to be owned by Power Grid Company of Bangladesh  Ltd. (PGCB), 1999.

• “Study of the Trends and Status in the Research and Technology on Lightning Surge Propagation, Damages and Protection in relation to Telecommunication Buildings and Subscribers” completed at UTM for NTT SDN.BHD, Malaysia, July-December 2000. 

• Resource person in the short course “Recent Trends in Power System Operation” organised for the professionals in the academic/industrial sector by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, UTM at Johor Bahru, Malaysia, 17-19 September 2001.  

• Assessing the power quality of utility supply to British American Tobacco Company factory in Dhaka; April- May 2003. 

• Evaluating the technical proposals submitted by various bidders in response to the tender floated by Dhaka Electric Supply Co (DESCO) Ltd. for procurement of  distribution system hardware and accessories under Asian Development Bank loan, 2003. 

• Resource person in evaluating reports on cross-border power trading in South Asia prepared by “Nexant” under South Asia Regional Initiative in Energy (SARI/E) Program of USAID. 

• Resource person and organizer in the Course 1.7: “Strengthening Regional Energy Linkages in South Asia” sponsored and organized by AED (Academy for Educational Development) in Dhaka (19-23 July 2003).

•  Resource person and organizer in the short term training “Reliability and Operational Aspects of a Regional Grid” sponsored by Winrock International and organized by BUET in Dhaka (15-17 July 2004) under SARI/E Program of USAID. 

• Resource person in “Long Electrical Course” for the officers of Bangladesh Navy, 2003 and 2004, Dhaka, sponsored by Directorate of Naval Training, Bangladesh Navy. 

• Preparing the complete bid documents (technical and financial) for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of 1MW and 2MW standby diesel generators for Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA);2004. 

• Organizer and/or Resource person  in the short course “Applied Energy Saving Technologies for Industrial, Commercial and Residential Sectors”, Centre for Energy Studies, BUET, 2004, 2005 and 2006;

• Assessment of the quality of under-construction 10 storied Headquarters Building for the Dept. of Forestry financed by Asian Development Bank  (ADB) ;2006. 

• Resource person in a series of Training on Solar Lighting Systems for the technical personnel working with various organizations in rural areas of Bangladesh organized by the German Technical Assistance (GTZ), Phocos AG Germany and BUET, 2007.

• Assessment of the effects on the control, operation and protection of an IPP  (Pendekar Energy Ltd.) owned  450 MW Combined  Cycle Power Plant (at Meghnaghat near Dhaka) due to proposed fibre optic cable (FOC) laying alongside the control and power cables in the same trench at the power plant premises and switchyard by Grameen Phone Ltd. to connect its optical backbone with the OPGW (Optical Ground Wires) of PGCB transmission lines, May 2007. 

• Conducting transient stability study to identify the exact causes of blackouts in the Bangladesh grid system on 16 November 2007 following a devastating cyclone named SIDR as requested by Power Grid Company of Bangladesh  Ltd. (PGCB).

• Conducting electromagnetic transients and stability studies to identify the root cause of blackouts in the Bangladesh grid system on 15 December 2007 as requested by Power Grid Company of Bangladesh  Ltd. (PGCB).

• Review and supervision (March 2008 - May 2009) on behalf of  Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) for  its Japanese grant aided rehabilitation and commissioning work in  the Ganges -Kabodakh Irrigation (GKI) Project  that involves replacement of  three large pumps each driven by a 3 MW synchronous motor by the new ones by the Japanese contractor EBARA.

•  Determination ( January - December 2009) of under frequency settings for the feeders for auto load shedding and the frequency ranges for the generators in  Bangladesh Power System to avert blackout  as requested by Power Grid Company of Bangladesh  Ltd. (PGCB).

•  "Study (August-November 2009) on the impacts on Bangladesh Grid System due to the proposed 46 MW (including 33 MW induction heating furnace) load of H-Steel Re-rolling Mills Ltd. at Baraulia, Chittagong  and their mitigations."

• Evaluation of the impacts of large scale installation of Compact Fluorescent Lamps and Electronic Ballasts in the DPDC distribution system (December 2009).

• Evaluation of the impacts of large scale installation of Compact Fluorescent Lamps in the REB and DESCO distribution system under World bank financed “Efficient Lighting Initiative for Bangladesh i.e. ELIB (Phase-I ) Project” ; June-July 2010.

• Study (April-June 2010) on the impacts on Bangladesh Grid System due to the addition of 40 MW load (including 36 MW electric arc furnace) of M/S. Abul Khair Steel Products (AKSP) Ltd. Chittagong and their mitigations.

• Resource person in GTZ sponsored “International Short Course on Solar Photo Voltaic Systems”, BUET; 2-6 October 2010.

• Team leader in the BUET expert team for study on the impacts on Bangladesh Grid System due to the proposed 18 MW load (including induction heating furnace) of Sitalpur Steel Mills Ltd. Chittagong  and their mitigations; December 2010-January 2011.

• Team leader in the BUET expert team for study on the impacts on Bangladesh Grid System due to the proposed 150 MW load (including electric arc furnace) of  BSRM Steel Mills Ltd. Chittagong  and their mitigations;  January-June 2011.

• Team leader in the BUET expert team for design, installation, testing and commissioning of SCADA system in 67 Nos. of 33/11 kV substations of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB); ongoing project since April 2010.

Professional Societies' Memberships

Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), U.S.A.; Life Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB); Life Fellow, Bangladesh Computer Society; Member, Bangladesh Electronics Society.

Postgraduate Research Supervision

1)      Md. Shahjahan : "Development of a State Estimator for BPDB (Bangladesh Power Development Board) Grid System", M.Sc.Engg. Thesis, November 1989, BUET.

2)      Mohammad Tawrit : "Study of Six Phase Power Transmission Network", M.Sc.Engg. Thesis, September 1992, BUET.

3)      Md. Mizanur Rahman : "An Interactive Power Flow Analyzer", M.Sc.Engg. Thesis, November 1993, BUET.

4)      Md. Abdus Salam : "Transient Stability Analysis of a Multimachine Power System by Identifying the Region Containing the Dominant Root of the Characteristic Equation",  M.Sc.Engg. Thesis, February 1994, BUET.

5)      Md. Abul Kalam : "Space  Decoupled  Load  Flow Analysis", M. Engg. Thesis, April 1994, BUET.

6)      A.K.M.Tofazzal Hossain: "Development of a Three-part Time-of-Day Electrical Energy Tariff for Industrial Consumers in Bangladesh", M.Engg. Thesis, June 1997, BUET.

7)      Narayan Chandra Sarker:  "A methodology for islanding a vulnerable power grid to prevent wide area outage", M.Sc.Engg. Thesis, August 1999, BUET.

8)      Cristopher Wesley Ajan: “Photovoltaic supplement to diesel generator based supply in an off-grid location”, M.Eng.Thesis, June 2001, UTM.

9)      Azhar b. Khairuddin: “Determination of available transfer capability for a deregulated power system using fuzzy logic”, PhD Thesis, April 2003, UTM.  

10) Md. Abul Bashar: "A Comaprative Technical Study on Local Generation versus Power Import in Bangladesh Perspectives", M.Engg. Thesis, October 2005, BUET. 

11) Md. Mohsin, “Operating Strategies of a Photovoltaic Generator Embedded High Voltage Power System”,  M.Sc.Engg. Thesis, December 2008, BUET.

12) Syed Imranul Islam,“Development of an algorithm for switching distribution feeders to avoid frequent under frequency trips in a power system”, MSc Engg. Thesis, December 2010,  BUET.

13) Md. Jahid Hasan, "Tracing the Power Flows from GenCos to Loads in an Electricity Market" (tentative title); on-going M.Sc.Engg. research, BUET.

14) Md. Farid Ahmmed,  " Protection System Coordination to Avoid Blackout" (tentative title); on-going PhD Research, BUET.

15) Md. Mohsin, “Stability Analysis in a High Voltage Power System Embedded with Large Photovoltaic Generator ”, (tentative title) on-going PhD Research, BUET.

16) Co-supervisor for “Fuzzy Logic Based Energy Saving Technique for a Central Air Conditioning System”, M.Eng. Thesis of  Hendri Novia, March 2003, UTM.

17) Co-supervisor for “Design and Development of an Indigenous Mobile Artificial Contamination Chamber Prototype for Glass and Polymeric Insulators Performance Test”, M.Eng. Thesis of  Muhammad Abu Bakar Sidik, March 2003, UTM.  

18) Co-supervisor for “A Methodology for Planning Tie-Lines in an Interconnected Power System”, PhD Thesis of  Abdul Hasib Chowdhury, September 2008, BUET. 

Undergraduate Project Supervision

Supervised 64 projects at BUET, UTM and MIST (Military Institute of Science and Technology, Dhaka).

Subjects Taught:

Undergraduate Level

at BUET: Electrical circuits, Computer programming and numerical methods, Control systems, Electrical machines (Energy Conversion), Measurement and instrumentation, Power stations, Power system analysis, Power transmission and distribution,   Power system protection,  Power System I, Power System II, Power System Operation and Control etc.  

at UTM: Power system control, Power system and High voltage engineering. 

Postgraduate Level

         at BUET: Modern Power System Modelling, Advanced Power System Control.

        at UTM: Advanced Power System, Power System Control.

Laboratory Development/Up gradation and Maintenance

·        Set up the Control Systems Laboratory of EEE Dept. BUET and served as the Lab In-charge (1994-1999). The lab has been equipped to provide experimental facilities on, among others, Microprocessor based temperature control, Conveyor system controlled by Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Digital control of DC servomotor's speed and position, Digital simulation using MATLAB package for verifying Control Systems theories, AC servo systems, and Process control simulation.

·        Served as the Lab In-charge (August 2003- July 2007) of Switchgear and Protection Laboratory in EEE Dept., BUET. The lab is equipped with PC based digital relays having  interfaces with air  and vacuum circuit breakers.