Mohamed E. El Hawary

Personal life

Mohamed El-Aref El-Hawary was born in Alexandria, Egypt on 3 February 1943 to Mahmoud Fahmy El-Hawary. El-Hawary graduated from Abbasia Senior High in 1960 with a General Secondary Education Certificate and his name was listed on the first outstanding students list, which granted him admittance to the University of Alexandria. In 1965, El-Hawary graduated there with a BSc in Electrical Power Engineering and subsequently received a scholarship from Izaak Walton Killam Memorial to study Ph.D. in the same field at the University of Alberta (1968-1972) with G. S. Christensen. Before travelling to Canada, he married Ferial El-Bibany, who became the president of IEEE Canada in the period between 2008 and 2009. They have two sons: Robert (Bob), and Ron El-Hawary., and one daughter: Bette.

Academic life

El-Hawary has taught electrical and computer engineering at DalTech (previously known as Technical University of Nova Scotia (TUN)) of Dalhousie University since September 1981.

Between January 1974 to December 1980, El-Hawary served on engineering faculty at Memorial University of Newfoundland and was Chair of Electrical Engineering. He was Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the period between May 1972 to December 1973. He was an Instructor, in the Departments of Electrical Engineering, at the Universities of Alexandria and Alberta. In 1960, El-Hawary graduated from Abbasia Senior High, Alexandria, Egypt. He has a B.Sc. from the University of Alexandria (Class of 1965), and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, the University of Alberta (1968-1972), Edmonton, where he was an Izaak Walton Killam Memorial fellow. He is a registered PEng. in the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia. Prof. El-Hawary is a member of the founding committee responsible for establishing the IEEE Newfoundland and Labrador Subsection in 1975, and has served in various capacities in the Subsection. Prof. El-Hawary is currently Chair of IEEE Canada's Publications Committee, and has served as Chair, IEEE Canada Recognition and Awards Committee IEEE Canada, (1994-1998), Chair Recognition Working Group of the Power Systems Engineering Committee, IEEE, and Chair of IEEE Main Prize Paper Awards Committee. He is a Member: IEEE Awards Board. He is Chair of Power Engineering Education Committee's Life Long Learning Subcommittee, and chairs the Operating Economics Subcommittee in the Power Engineering Society. Prof. El-Hawary was President Canadian Society for Electrical Engineering and Vice-President of Engineering Institute of Canada (1986–88). Up to the last update in the 28th of June 2015, he has written eleven textbooks and monographs, is author of over 162 referred Journal articles, 199 conference papers, and supervisor of 62 graduate students. Prof. El-Hawary is a member of the Editorial Board of IEEE/OUP Encyclopedia of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is Founding Editor, Power Letters, Power Engineering Society, and Associate Editor for the three major Electric Machines and Power Systems' Journals. Moreover, he is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Power and Energy Society, the IEEE Industry Applications Society, and IEEE Canada. Furthermore, El-Hawary is Editor of IEEE Expert Now Power Engineering Series, and Electrical Power Engineering, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. He consults frequently and taught over 100 professional development offerings in numerous parts of the world. He served as Chair of the Power System Operations Committee, Life Long Learning subcommittee, the Operating Economics Subcommittee and a member of the Awards Committee of PES. El-Hawary pioneered in many analytical and numerical computations to solve complicated problems of interconnected electric power systems that contains different types and technologies of generating machines, including: thermal, hydro, nuclear, solar, wind, tidal, and other renewable/sustainable/green energy resources. His research interests covered most of the fields of electric power engineering, including: power flow/optimal power flow, power system operation and operational planning, power system dynamic and control, power system protection and relaying, machinery design, smart grids and modern networks, renewable/sustainable/green energy, fuzzy systems and its applications, and artificial neural networks (ANNs) and its applications. All these achievements can be clearly seen in many cited works presented in the literature.

From El-Hawary's wide list of researches, someone could realize that he invented and pioneered in implementation of many novel algorithms (based on their published dates) as well as suggested modified versions of many algorithms exist in the literature. Also, he had different studies on the Canadian electric system and the available opportunities of renewable energy. Further, El-Hawary has contributed in some ANSI/IEEE and IEC standards.

Work

1. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Professor - May 1972 to December 1973.
2. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador | Professor - January 1974 to December 1980.
3. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia | Professor - September 1981 to present·

Education

1. Abbasia Senior High, Alexandria, Egypt | Class of 1960 - General Secondary Education Certificate.
2. University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt | Class of 1965 - BSc in Electrical Power Engineering.
3. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | Class of 1972 - PhD in Electrical Engineering.

Medals and Awards

Sites and Webpages

Publications

Most of M. E. El-Hawary's publications still are not archived well in Google Scholar, ResearchGate, DalSpace, etc. Thus, the actual number of publications and related citations are much larger than that currently presented in the previous sites. Below, a list of El-Hawary's publications, edited works and graduate students (last update: June 28, 2015):

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