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Mohammadreza (Reza) Barzegaran
Department of Electrical Engineering
Lamar University
Cell: (305) 898-9628, Office Tel: (409) 880-7593
Email:
[email protected],
[email protected]
Web-site: http://www.energy.fiu.edu/barzegaran/
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (EE)
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M.Sc. (EE)
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B.Sc.
(EE)
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Florida International University, Majored in Power and Drives, MAR 2014, GPA: 3.86/4.
Physics-based Modeling of Power System Components for the Evaluation of Low-Frequency Radiated
Electromagnetic Fields, Advisor: Prof. O. A. Mohammed
University of Tehran & Mazandaran, Majored in Power and HV, JAN 2010, GPA: 18.90/20.00
Fault Detection in power transformer winding by means of finite element method and transfer function
Advisors: Prof. Shayegani (University of Tehran), Prof. Mirzaie (University of Mazandaran)
University of Mazandaran, Majored in Electric Power, AUG 2007, GPA: 15.20/20.00
Theory and application of distribution electronic power transformer, Advisors: Prof. Lesan
AREA OF EXPERTISE & INTERESTS
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Design, Control and FMEA of Electrical Machines, Alternator & Power System Components
Hardware in loop control of Electric Machines, Power Electronics converters, switches and connectors in Micro/
smartgrid
Embedded systems programming for power system containing MCU’s, PLC or programmable logic, signal
processing
Condition Reliability Monitoring, Fault Diagnosis & Prognosis of Electric Power Components
Protection, Life Management & Reliability of Electrical Power Equipment,
Energy Storage Systems (batteries, ultra-capacitors), Battery Modeling, Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Power System Operation (Modeling, Simulation, Contingency Analysis, State Estimation, and Power/voltage
stability), Power System Optimization
WORK EXPERIENCE
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2007-2010: Research Assistant, High Voltage Lab at University of Tehran & Uni of Mazandaran.
 Test and assembly of the transformers and high voltage components including testing power and
distributed transformers, capacitors and distribution network components and arc flash hazard analysis
 Fault diagnosis and prognosis of the transformers
 Partial Discharge test of the Capacitors and distribution network components
 Modeling of HV components using FEM: ANSYS MAXWELL, MATLAB/SIMULINK, ANSYS SIMLPORER
2007: Power Engineer at Mazandaran Power Utility Company, Mazandaran, Iran.
 Implementing routine controls of the distributed networks in the area,
 Load shedding and forecasting of the power network in the metropolitan area
 Fault diagnosis of the components in power substations
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Aug 2014- Date: Assistant Professor, Lamar University (A Texas State University)
 Started building innovative Microgrid Research Center
 The Advisor of 5 graduate students
Apr 2014- Aug 2014: Post doctoral Fellow, Energy System Research Lab at Florida Int’l University
 Embeded coding of electric drives for the purpose of real-time controlling and monitoring the electric
machine drives and power converters.
 Optimization in the placement of components on PCB
 Design an innovative driver for the bi-directional converters
2010-Mar 2014: Research Assistant, Energy System Research Lab at Florida Int’l University.
 Design and control of Power Alternators, Induction wounded motors, DC machines, Permanent magnet
DC, BLDC, AC machines and Power Converters through different techniques
 HIL control of the Machine drives and converters with TMS320F6713, STM32F407 and dSPACE 1104
 Rewinding and Fault Diagnosis Analysis and FMEA of Various Electric Machines and Power Converter
 Design of Power Electronic Based Power Supply and many other Power Electronics boards such as
Current and voltage measurement boards, security boards, and bidirectional converter
 Comprehensive Fault Diagnosis of Power Converter
 Design of power components using Finite Element method (FEM) software's: ANSYS MAXWELL, COMSOL
MULTIPHYSICS, INFOLYTICA MAGNET, MAGSOFT FLUX
 Analysis of electric Circuits using MATLAB, SIMULINK, ANSYS SIMLPORER, ORCAD
 Condition Monitoring of the power components in enclosed chamber using coil and rod antennas
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 System Protection using Distance, over-current and differential relays (SEL 421 and so on)
2006: Intern Power System Engineer at Shomal Electric Company, Mazandaran, Iran.
 Fault diagnosis and prognosis of electrical and electronic components
 Troubleshooting of Power Supplies
HONORS AND AWARDS
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Offered Tenure-track Faculty positions from three different universities.
The Best graduate of the College of engineering from Florida International University, class of 2014.
The Graduate school Fellowship in 2013.
Recipient of second Best Paper Award of the ACES conference 2014.
The GSPC Award in 2011 and 2012.
Awarded the technical oral presentation competition in the society of Material Advantage,2011 &2012.
Ranked 1st in GPA among all graduate students in 2011, ECE, Florida International University.
Graded 20.0/20.0 from the M.Sc Thesis for the first time in the history of Electrical Eng. Department.
Top 1% of the National Annual Graduate School Entrance Exam.
PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE SKILLS
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Proficient in Finite Element method (FEM) software's: ANSYS MAXWELL, COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS, INFOLYTICA
MAGNET, MAGSOFT FLUX.
Proficient in Circuit based softwares: MATLAB, SIMULINK, ANSOFT SIMLPORER, ORCAD, POWERSIM,
POWERWORLD.
Skilled in monitoring and Daq softwares: Labview and DIgSILENT.
Skilled in PCB design software: Puslonix.
Skilled in Programming Language: C/C++ , MikroC, MATLAB.
SOCIETY AND COMMITTEE SERVICES
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Student Member and Member, 2011 to date.
Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society (ACES), Student Member, 2011 to date.
IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, Technical Committee Member (TC7), 2012 to date.
Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society Annual Conference 2011 (VA, USA) & 2012 (OH,USA) & 2013
(CA,USA), Member of Organizing Committee.
Referee at the National Engineers Week Future City Competition in South Florida (from 2009 to present), (official
certificate).
IEEE Magnetic Society, Student Member, 2013.
IEEE Power & Energy Society, Student Member, 2012.
Reviewer and referee of:
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (six papers)
IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion (five paper)
Journal of Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (three paper)
IEEE ECCE Conference (five papers)
Electric Power Component & System Journal, Taylor and Francis (one paper)
Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering (three papers)
Mohammadreza Barzegaran’s Resume
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J1- M.R. Barzegaran, Tarek Yussef, A. Berzoy, O. A. Mohammed, “Electric Machine Drive Design Improvements
through Control and Digital Signal Processing Techniques,” submitted To IEEE Transaction on Energy Conversion,
JUN 2014
J2- M.R. Barzegaran, O. A. Mohammed, “Identification of Short-circuit Location in Induction Motors using Radiated
Electromagnetic Field Signatures,” submitted To IEEE Transaction on Energy Conversion, AUG 2014
J3- M.R Barzegaran, Ahmed Mohamed, Tarek Yussef, O.A. Mohammed “Electromagnetic signature study of the
power converter connected to an electric motor drives,” IEEE Transaction on Magnetics, Mar 2014.
J4- M.R Barzegaran, Ali Mazloomzadeh, O.A. Mohammed “Fault Diagnosis of the Asynchronous Machines through
Magnetic Signature Analysis using Finite Element Method and Neural Networks,” IEEE Transaction on Energy
Conversion,Vol 28, No. 4, pp. 1064-1071, DEC 2013.
J5- M.R Barzegaran, O.A. Mohammed, “A Generalized Equivalent Source Model of AC Electric Machines for Numerical
Electromagnetic Field Signature Studies,” IEEE Transaction on Magnetic, Vol. 48, No. 11, Nov 2012.
J6- Ali Sarikhani, M. Barzegaran, O. A. Mohammed, “Optimum Equivalent Models of Multi-source Systems for the
Study of Electromagnetic Signatures and radiated Emissions from Electric Drives,” IEEE Transaction on Magnetic,
Vol. 48, Issue 2, pp. 1011-1014, 2012.
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JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
J7- A.Nejadpak, M.R Barzegaran, O.A. Mohammed, “Evaluation of High Frequency Electromagnetic Behavior of
Planar Inductor Designs for Resonant Circuits in Switching Power Converters,” Applied Computational
Electromagnetic Society Journal (ACES), Vol.26, No 9, pp. 737-748, Sep 2011.
J8- M.R Barzegaran, O.A. Mohammed, “Multi-Dipole Modeling of XLPE Cable for Electromagnetic Field Studies in
Large Power Systems,” The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering, vol. 33, No. 1, 2014.
J9- M.R Barzegaran, Ali Sarikhani, Osama A. Mohammed, “An Optimized Equivalent Source Modeling for the
Evaluation of Time Harmonic Radiated Fields from Electrical Machines and Drives” The Applied Computational
Electromagnetics Society Journal, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 273-282, Apr. 2013.
J10- M.R Barzegaran, O.A. Mohammed, “3-D FE Equivalent Source Modeling and Analysis of Electromagnetic
Signatures from Electric Power Drive Components and Systems,” IEEE Transaction on Magnetic, vol.49, no.5,
pp.1937,1940, May 2013.
J11- M.R Barzegaran, Arash Nejadpak, O.A. Mohammed, “Numerical Simulation of Electromagnetic Field Correlation
between Components of Power Converter-Pulse Load System,” Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society
Journal.
J12- M.R Barzegaran, M. Mirzaie, “Detecting the Position of Winding Short Circuit Faults in Transformer Using High
Frequency Analysis,” European Journal of Scientific Research Vol.23 No.4 (2008), pp.645-659.
J13- M.R Barzegaran, M. Mirzaie, A.Barzegari, A Shayegani, “Identifying Sensitive test Configuration of Power
Transformers for FRA Measurement using New Approach in Finite Element Analysis,” International Review of
Modeling & Simulation (IREMOS), Praise Worthy Prize, Vol.23 No.4, pp. 558-564, Praise Worthy Prize, Oct 2009.
J14- M.R Barzegaran, M. Mirzaie, A Shayegani, “Frequency Response Analysis in Power Transformer for Detection of
Winding Short-circuit using Quasi-static Finite Element and Circuit-based Method,” World Applied Science Journal,
Vol.7 No.8 (2009), pp.1006-1015.
J15- M.R Barzegaran, M. Mirzaie, A Shayegani, “Faults Diagnosis of Power Transformer Winding by means of Finite
Element Method and Frequency Response Analysis,” AJEEE (Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering) Vol. 7 Issue 3, May 2010, p247.
J16- M. R. Barzegaran, M. Mirzaie, M. Yazdani-Asrami, R. Ahmadi Kordkheili, “Identifying the Location of Disk to Disk
Short-Circuit in Power Transformer by Means of Double-2d Finite Element Analysis,” International Review of
Electrical Engineering (IREE), Vol. 5. n. 4, pp. 1452-1459, Aug 2010.
Mohammadreza Barzegaran’s Resume
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C1- M.R Barzegaran, O.A. Mohammed, “ Combined Edge Modelling Technique for Electromagnetic Signature Study of
the Large Direct Current Machines,” Annual Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics,
Jacksonville, FL, USA, Mar. 2014.
C2- M.R Barzegaran, O.A. Mohammed, “Condition Monitoring of Electrical Machines for Extreme Environments using
the Electromagnetic Stray Fields,” International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM 2014), Berlin, Germany,
Sep 2014,
C3- M.R Barzegaran, A. Mazloomzadeh, O.A. Mohammed, “Identification of Short-circuit Location in Induction Motors
using Radiated Electromagnetic Field Signatures,” International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
(ICEMS 2013), Busan, Korea, OCT 2013.
C4- M.R Barzegaran, A. Nejadpak, O.A. Mohammed, “Electromagnetic signature study of the power converter
connected to an electric motor drives,” Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (COMPUMAG 2013), July 2013,
Budapest, Hungary.
C5- M.R Barzegaran, A. Nejadpak, O.A. Mohammed, “Condition Monitoring of PM Synchronous Motor Using HighFrequency Signal Injection in Low Speed Senseless Control Algorithm,” IEEE International Electric Machines and
Drives Conference IEMDC 2013, pp.716-721, 12-15 May 2013.
C6- M.R Barzegaran, O.A. Mohammed, “Investigation of the Magnetic Signatures of Unbalanced Currents of Electric
Motor Operation Using Finite Element Method and Neural Networks” 29th Annual Review of Progress in Applied
Computational Electromagnetics, Monterey, CA, USA Mar. 2013.
C7- M.R Barzegaran, O.A. Mohammed, “A Generalized Equivalent Source Model of AC Electric Machines for Numerical
Electromagnetic Field Signature Studies” IEEE INTERMAG 2012, Vancouver, Canada 7-11 MAY 2012.
C8- M.R Barzegaran, O.A. Mohammed, “Near Field Evaluation of Electromagnetic Signatures from Wound Rotor
Synchronous Generators using Wire Modeling in Finite Element domain” 28th Annual Review of Progress in Applied
Computational Electromagnetics, Columbus, OH, USA Apr. 2012.
C9- M.R Barzegaran, O.A. Mohammed, “Multi-Dipole Modeling of XLPE Cable for Electromagnetic Field Studies in
Large Power Systems,” The Sixth International Conference on Electromagnetic Field Problems and Applications
(ICEF), June 19-21 2012, Dalian, China.
C10M.R Barzegaran, O.A. Mohammed, “3DFE Wire Modeling and Analysis of Electromagnetic Signatures from
Electric Power Drive Components and Systems,” Fifteenth Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field
Computation (CEFC2012).
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PAPERS
C11A. Nejadpak, M.R Barzegaran, O.A. Mohammed, “Numerical Simulation of Low Frequency Far Fields form an
Operating Multi-Component System Including Power Converter Load Switching,” Fifteenth Biennial IEEE Conference
on Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC2012).
C12M.R Barzegaran, A. Sarikhani, O.A. Mohammed, “Equivalent Current Loop Model for the Study of Radiated
Electromagnetic Field Interference in Multi-Machine Electric Drives” ACES 2011, VA, USA 27-31 March 2011.
C13M.R Barzegaran, A. Nejadpak, O.A. Mohammed, “High Frequency Electromagnetic Field Model for the
Evaluation of Parasitic Elements in Power Converters” ACES 2011, VA, USA 27-31 March 2011.
C14A. Nejadpak, M.R Barzegaran, A Sarikhani, O.A. Mohammed, “Design of Planar Inductor Based Z-Source
Inverters for Residential Alternate Energy Sources,” IEEE APEC 2011, TX USA, pp.1-8, 6-10 March 2011.
C15A. Nejadpak, M.R Barzegaran, O.A. Mohammed, “Study of the high frequency electromagnetic behavior of
planar inductor design for resonant circuits in switching power converters” IEEE CEM 2011, Poland, 6-10 April
2011.
C16A. Sarikhani, M.R Barzegaran, O.A. Mohammed, “Optimum Equivalent Models of Multi-Conductor Systems for
the Study of Electromagnetic Signatures and Radiated Emissions from Electric” IEEE COMPUMAG 2011, Australia
12-15 July 2011.
C17M.R Barzegaran, A. Sarikhani, O.A. Mohammed, “An Equivalent Source Model for the Study of Radiated
Electromagnetic Fields in Multi-Machine Electric Drive Systems” IEEE EMC 2011, CA, USA, 25-29 Aug 2011.
C18M.R Barzegaran, M. Mirzaie, A Shayegani, “Investigating Short-circuit in Power Transformer Winding with
Quasi-static Finite Element Analysis and Circuit-based Model,” 2010 IEEE PES T&D, 19-22 April 2010.
C19M.R Barzegaran, M. Mirzaie, A Shayegani, “Diagnosing and Detecting the Location of Short-circuit in Power
Transformer winding using frequency response analysis with in Finite Element – circuit-based method,”
International PSC Oct-2009. 09-TRN-0129.
OTHER RESEARCH WORKS
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Comprehensive Theory of Electrical Machine; simulation and analysis of voltage sag in Power
Transformer, presented in 2008,
Reactive Power Control; Modeling and investigating voltage stability in STATCOM, 2007,
Power Electronic; Investigating new generation of UPS, 2008
Power Quality; Simulation and analysis of 3-phase 4-legs reactive filter in different circumstances, 2008
Dynamic of Power Systems; Investigation of Load Shedding in power grid, 2009,
Advanced High Voltage Engineering; Analysis of internal faults in the winding of power transformers,
2009.
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