About the Editor-in-Chief
Muhammad H. Rashid is employed by the University of West Florida as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Previously, he was employed by the University of Florida as Professor and Director of UF/UWF Joint Program. He received BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Birmingham in United Kingdom. Previously, he worked as Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Chair of the Engineering Department at Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne. Also, he worked as Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Connecticut, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University Calumet, Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Saudi Arabia), design and development engineer with Brush Electrical Machines Ltd (England, United Kingdom), Research Engineer with Lucas Group Research Centre (England, United Kingdom), and Lecturer and Head of Control Engineering Department at the Higher Institute of Electronics (Libya and Malta).
He is actively involved in teaching, researching, and lecturing in electronics, power electronics, and professional ethics. He has published 18 books listed in the US Library of Congress and more than 160 technical papers. His books are adopted as textbooks all over the world. His book, Power Electronics has translations in Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Korean, Italian, Chinese, Persian, and Indian edition. His book, Microelectronics has translations in Spanish (in Mexico and Spain), Italian, and Chinese.
He has received many invitations from foreign governments and agencies to give keynote lectures and consultation; foreign universities to serve as an external examiner for undergraduate, master’s, and PhD examinations; funding agencies to review research proposals; and US and foreign universities to evaluate promotion cases for professorship. He has worked as a regular employee or consultant in Canada, Korea, United Kingdom, Singapore, Malta, Libya, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. He has traveled to almost all the States in USA and many other countries to give lectures and present papers (Japan, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Libya, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Malta, Italy, Greece, United Kingdom, Brazil, and Mexico).
He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET, United Kingdom) and a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, USA). He was elected as an IEEE Fellow with the citation “Leadership in power electronics education and contributions to the analysis and design methodologies of solid-state power converters.” He is the recipient of the 1991 Outstanding Engineer Award from IEEE. He received the 2002 IEEE Educational Activity Award (EAB) and Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education with the following citation “For contributions to the design and delivery of continuing education in power electronics and computer-aided-simulation.” He is the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award with citation “For his distinguished leadership and dedication to quality undergraduate electrical engineering education, motivating students and publication of outstanding textbooks.” He is also the recipient of the IEEE 2013 Industry Applications Society Outstanding Achievement Award.
He is an ABET program evaluator for electrical and computer engineering (1995–2000) and was an engineering evaluator for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS, USA). He is also an ABET program evaluator for (general) engineering program. He is the Series Editor of Power Electronics and Applications and Nanotechnology and Applications with the CRC Press. He serves as the Editorial Advisor of Electric Power and Energy with Elsevier Publishing. He gives lectures and conducts workshops on Outcome-Based Education (OBE) and its implementations including assessments.
He is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Education Society and a Regional Speaker (previously distinguished lecturer) for the IEEE Industrial Applications Society. He also authored a book The Process of Outcome-Based Education – Implementation, Assessment and Evaluations (2012, UiTM Press, Malaysia).