M. E. AlSharidah

Work Experience

Current-Mar 2013
Assistant Professor - Electrical Engineering Tech. Dept.
College of Technological Studies, PAAET, Kuwait
Courses offered: Machines, Power system Transmission, Power Electronics, Drive systems, and Automatic Control.
Sep 2007-Feb 2013
Lecturer - Electrical Engineering Tech. Dept.
College of Technological Studies, PAAET, Kuwait
Taught courses on electrical machines, machine control, power systems, power electronics. Coordinator of the ABET certification committee for the department of electrical engineering technology. Headed the department’s research committee and a member of the college research committee.
Mar 2012-Jun 2012
Lecturer - Electrical Engineering Devision
Kuwait University, Khaldiya, Kuwait
Developed material, program, and lectured in the intensified orientation course for ministry of electricity and water Training Program for the Ministry of Electricity and Water UD engineers: Lectures include smart grid, power line carrier communication, power electronics, synchronous generators, installations, and induction machines.
Sep 1999-Aug 2002
Lecturer - Electrical Engineering Devision
College of Technological Studies, PAAET, Kuwait
Taught courses in electric power, electric machines, electronics, and digital systems, basic electronics, electronic devices, digital Systems, electronic Circuits I, introduction to computers, electric instruments-Measurement, circuits I, installations (Kuwait Code), power electronics, electric Machines I electric Machines II. Also designed and taught special courses for the ministries of energy, transportation, and public works and Kuwait National Petroleum Company
Oct 1995-Sep 1997
Marketing Officer
Independent Petroleum Group, Jabriya, Kuwait
Duties included drafting contracts, monitoring oprations (shipping) and breakeven analysis for spot and term contracts. Regions covered was Singapore, South Asia, East Africa, and the Mediterranean.

Education

Feb 2013
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
May 1999
Masters of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA
May 1995
Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
GPA: 3.4/4

Publication

2016
A. K. Al-Othman, K. M. El-Naggar, and M. E. AlSharidah, "On-line estimation of transmission line parameters using synchronized measurements," Power Components and Systems, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 233 - 239, 2016.
2016
A. Al-Othman,M. AlSharidah,N. A. Ahmed, and B. N. Alajmi,
"Model predictive control for shunt active power filter in synchronous reference frame," of Electrical Engineering & Technology, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 405 - 415, 2016.
2016
A. K. Al-Othman, N. A. Ahmed, M. E. AlSharidah, K. M. El-Naggar, B. N. Alajmi,
"Experimental Implementation of PEM Fuel Cell Powered DC Motor for Vehicle Applications" of Engineering Research 4 (3), 2016.
2015
A. K. Al-Othman, N. A. Ahmed, F. S. Al-Fares, and M. E. AlSharidah,
"Parameter identification of pem fuel cell using quantum- based optimization method," Journal for Science and Engineering, vol. 40, no. 9, pp. 2619–2628, 2015.
2014
M. AlSharidah, N. A. Ahmed, and A. K. Alothman,
"Negative sequence injection for islanding detection of grid interconnected distributed generators," Power and Energy Conference (EPEC), 2014 IEEE, Nov 2014, pp. 267 - 274.
2013
A. Al-Othman, N. A. Ahmed, M. AlSharidah, and H. A. AlMekhaizim,
"A hybrid real coded genetic algorithm - pattern search approach for selective harmonic elimination of {PWM} ac/ac voltage controller" Power and Energy Conference (EPEC), 2014 IEEE, Nov 2014, pp. 267 - 274.
2012
M. E. AlSharidah
"An active method for implementing the unintentional islanding test in distributed generation systems"
Ph.D. dissertation, University of British Columbia, 2012.
2009
M. E. AlSharidah, W. G. Dunford, and W. Feng,
"A new representation of the unintentional islanding test resonant function," 2009 - 31st International Telecommunications Energy Conference, Oct 2009, pp. 1 - 6.