Name Parviz Maralani | Institution University of Tehran | |
Institutions University of Tehran | ||
Parviz Jabehdar Maralani is an Iranian university engineering professor and fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Iran. He has contributed significantly to the education of electrical engineering in Iran and trained many students.
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Biography
Jabedar was born in Tabriz in 1941. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering From Tehran University (1959-1963), his M.S. degree in Electrical And Computer Engineering from University of California, Berkeley (1965-1966), and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical And Computer Engineering, from University of California, Berkeley (1966-1969). He joined the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Tehran in 1970 where he became distinguished professor later and emeritus professor. Besides his research work, he has contributed significantly to the engineering education of electrical engineering in Iran. Many of prominent Iranian electrical engineers and professors have been his students or students of his students, including the late Caro Lucas, Babak Araabi.
He is the author of 14 Books, 40 Journal articles, and 80 Conference papers.
Major Administrative Positions: Chairman of The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran.
Major Memberships: Member of Technical Staff (1969-1970) Bell labs, Holmdel NJ, USA.
Member of the Founding Team of Iranian Universities scientific Olympiad and responsible for Developing the Electrical Engineering Olympiad (1994).
Member of Founding Team for Science and Defence Technology (Malek-Ashtar) university in Shahinshahr, Iran, and responsible for Planning the Department of Electrical at this University (1981).
Member of Editorial Board of 6 Scientific and Research Journals.
Awards: Award of the outstanding alumni of the university of Tehran in its 70th anniversary (Dec 2004).
Distinguished Achievement Award of the 6th Biannual World Automation congress in recognition of outstanding contributions to control systems, Motivational Mentorship of Young Engineers and Scientists and Publication of important Textbook, Seville Spain (Jun 28, 2004).
Winner of the golden certificate and the award of the Iranian Association of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(IAEEE) for a distinct and continued work of excellent teaching and research (May 2003).
Distinguished professor of the faculty of Engineering 1994 for the excellence of teaching and Research.
Distinguished Professor of the University of Tehran for the excellence of Teaching, Research and Administration (1992).
Winner of the award of the best published textbook in the country for the best translation of the book: "Computer Method for Circuit Analysis and Design" (1992).
Winner of the award for publishing the best textbook in the year in Tehran university Publication (i.e. computer Methods for Circuit Analysis and Design) (1992).
Winner of the award for publishing the best textbook in Tehran university publication during the decade 1979-1989 i.e. Signals and System.
Initiation of Ph.D. program in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Tehran (1988).
Winner of the Award for the best published textbook in the country for the best translation of book: "Modern control Engineering" (1987).
First Rank Graduate of the University of Tehran in 1963 and winner of the award of PhD Scholarship in US.
Selected as an Eternal Figures (Chehreh ye Mandegar) in Electrical Engineering in 2002.