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ECE professor receives major grant from DOE

Recently Dr. Hamid Toliyat, along with researchers at GE Corporate Research and Development and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, were awarded a $6,250,000 three year grant by the Department of Energy (DOE) for their work titled “Ultra-reliable Deepwater Electrical Power Distribution System and Power Components, Prognostic Health Monitoring of Subsea T&D Systems.” Toliyat, the Raytheon Company Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, was awarded $196,405 for the Texas A&M budget. Toliyat came to Texas A&M University in 1994 after being an assistant professor at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1991.
He is an IEEE Fellow and has received the prestigious Cyrill Veinott Award in Electromechanical Energy Conversion from the IEEE Power Engineering Society in 2004. Other honors include a best paper award at IECON-2008; a TEES Fellow Award in 2004 and 2006; an Outstanding Professor Award in 2005 from Texas A&M; a Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003; The E.D. Brockett Professorship Award in 2002; The Eugene Webb Faculty Fellow Award in 2000; and the Texas A&M Select Young Investigator Award in 1999 from Texas A&M University.
Toliyat has also received the Space Act Award from NASA in 1999 and the Schlumberger Foundation Technical Awards in 2001 and 2000. He also is an editor of IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion and was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, as well as the chair of IEEE-IAS Industrial Power Conversion Systems Department of IEEE-IAS and a member of Sigma Xi.
His main research interests and experience include analysis and design of electrical machines, variable speed drives for traction and propulsion applications, fault diagnosis of electric machinery, and sensorless variable speed drives. Toliyat has supervised more than 36 graduate students, published more than 325 technical papers (100 papers in IEEE Transactions) and has presented more than 50 invited lectures all over the world. Toliyat also is an inventor and has 10 issued and pending U.S. patents in these fields. He is the author of DSP-Based Electromechanical Motion Control and the co-editor of Handbook of Electric Motors. He was the general chair of the 2005 IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference in San Antonio. Toliyat is also a Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.