IIT Faculty Member Ali Emadi Named Harris Perlstein Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chicago, IL — May 29, 2009 —
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Armour College of Engineering is pleased to announce that faculty member Ali Emadi has been named the Harris Perlstein Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The prestigious position was established in 1965 by Harris Perlstein ('14), former chairman of the Pabst Brewing Company and chair of IIT's Board of Directors from 1967 to 1971, and his family, to support a chaired position.
Emadi is the director of the Electric Power and Power Electronics Center and Grainger Laboratories at IIT, where he has established research and teaching facilities as well as courses in power electronics, motor drives and vehicular power systems. He is the founder, director and chairman of the board of the Industry/Multi-university Consortium on Advanced Automotive Systems (IMCAAS) and the founder of the IIT start-up company Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technologies (HEVT). His main research interests include sustainable energy-efficient solutions from advanced power electronic converters and electric motor drives to electric, hybrid electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
The recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, Emadi received the Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society in 2005 and the same year was nominated the Best Professor of the Year by IIT electrical and computer engineering students. Additionally, he was named the 2003 Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer of the Year by the Electrical Engineering Honor Society Eta Kappa Nu for his contributions to hybrid electric vehicle conversion, excellence in teaching and involvement in student activities.
The editor (North America) of the International Journal of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, Emadi is the principal author/co-author of more than 220 journal and conference papers as well as several books on subjects including vehicular electric power systems and hybrid technology. He was the founding general chair of the first IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference in 2005 and is currently the chair of the IEEE steering committee on vehicle power and propulsion.
Ranking first among his undergraduate class, Emadi received a B.S. (1995) and an M.S. (1997) degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology (SUT) in Tehran, Iran. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, in 2000, specializing in power electronics and motor drives.
For more information about Ali Emadi or IIT Armour College of Engineering, please visit www.iit.edu/engineering.
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