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Prof.Abdul-Kadir Hamid Academic RankProfessor
Abdul-Kadir Hamid

Specialization:

  • P.hD. in Electrical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada, 1991.

Research Interests:

  • Applied Electromagnetics and Electronics: scattering and radiation by two and three dimensional bodies, FDTD solution to monopole and strip antennas, Electrical/Thermal Performance of hybrid PV/T system

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- Ph.D. Electrical Eng. Univ of Manitoba 1991 - M.Sc. Electrical Eng. Univ of Manitoba 1988 - B.Sc. Electrical Eng. W.V.I.T. & Univ. 1985
- 2007-Present: Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Sharjah, UAE. - 2011-2013: Coordinator of Sustainable and Energy Engineering program - 2007-2008: Dept. Head, College of Engineering, University of Sharjah, UAE. - 2006-2007: Associate Dean, College of Engineering. - 2000-2006: Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Sharjah, UAE. - 1999-2000: Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, KSA. - 1994-2000: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, KSA. - 1991-1993: Research engineer, Quantic Laboratories Inc., A Computer Aided Engineering Software Company, Winnipeg, Canada.
-Editors and Reviewers Board of the Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications (JEWA). -Reviews occasionally for the International Journal of Electronics. -Reviewers regularly for the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society Journal (ACES). -Reviews occasionally for the Canadian Journal of Physics. -Reviews occasionally for the Radio Science Journal. -Reviewed and chaired sessions for 10th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and System, ICECS 2003, Dec. 14-17 Sharjah, U.A.E. -Reviewed for the International Conference on Information and Computer Science, ICIS 2004, Nov. 28-30, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia -Member of the Technical Committee for ACES 2003 Conference, Monterey, CA, Mar 2003 -Conference General Secretary of ISSPA2007, Feb 07, 2007, Sharjah/Dubai, UAE. -Chair of 2008 International Conference on Microelectronics: ICM 2008 ; Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 14 - 17 December 2008. -Chair of UOS 9th Research Forum, May 4-5, 2015
- Professional Engineers Jordan, Member since 1985. - Member of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society - Research Interests - Electromagnetic compatibility using finite difference method. - Scattering and inverse scattering. - Moment solution for waveguide discontinuities and waveguide coupling antennas. - Radiation by slotted elliptical antennas coated by metamaterials, and scattering by lossy loaded elliptical channels. - FDTD solution to coated monopole and micro trip antennas - Experimental studies of Electrical/Thermal hybrid PV/T system.
- A-K. Hamid and M. Bettayeb, ‘Electromagnetic Radiation From Cellular Phones in the Presence of the Human Head and Methods to Minimize Its Effects’, University of Sharjah Funded Project, From May 2001 to 2005. - M. Bettayeb, A-K. Hamid, et. al.,“ Intelligent Systems and Infrastructures,” University of Sharjah Funded Project, From May 2004 to 2009. - A-K. Hamid et al, “Energy Efficiency Research Center”, Coordinator, University of Sharjah, 2012. - A-K. Hamid et al, Sustainable Energy Development Group, UOS, 2015 - A-K. Hamid et al, 3KW PV/T Hybrid System with Front and Back Cooling, Funded Research Project, UOS, 2015.
JOURNAL PAPERS  A-K. Hamid and Waleed Obaid, “RCS of Chiral Elliptic Cylinder Embedded in Infinite Chiral Medium ”, International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) , vol. 7, no.5, pp. 2731-2737, 2017.  A-K. Hamid and F. Cooray, “Two-Dimensional Scattering by a Homogeneous Gyrotropic-Type Elliptic Cylinder”, Advanced Electromagnetics Journal, vol. 5, 3, pp. 106-112, 2016.  A-K. Hamid , “Series Solution to the Radiation from Slotted Antenna on Elliptic Cylinder Coated by Biaxial Anisotropic Material”, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal, vol. 30, 12, pp. 1301-1305, 2015.  A-K. Hamid and F. Cooray, “Scattering of a Plane Wave by a Homogeneous Anisotropic Elliptic Cylinder”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 63, 8, pp. 3579 – 3587, 2015.  A-K. Hamid, “Scattering from an Arbitrarily Incident Plane Wave by a PEMC Elliptic Cylinder Confocally Coated with a Chiral Material”, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal, vol. 30, 5, pp. 503-509, 2015.  Ahmed Hachicha, Chaouki Ghenai and A-K. Hamid, “Enhancing the Performance of a Photovoltaic Module Using Different Cooling Methods”, International Journal of Environmental, Chemical, Ecological, Geological, and Geophysical Engineering, Vol. 9, no.9, pp. 999-1002, 2015.  A-K. Hamid, “Elliptic Slotted Antenna With Anisotropic Plasma dielectric Coating”, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering, vol. 4, no.2, pp. 1-4, 2015.  A-K. Hamid and F. Cooray, “Scattering from a Chirally Coated DB Elliptic Cylinder”, International Journal of Electronics and Communications, AEUE, vol. 68, no. 11, pp. 1106-1111, 2014.  A-K. Hamid, “Scattering by a Nihility Elliptic Cylinder with Dielectric Coating and Under Line Source Illumination”, International Journal of Engineering Sciences, Vol. 3, No 11, pp. 109-113 2014.  Amna A. Alzaabi, Nadine K. Badawiyeha, Hind O. Hantousha and A-K. Hamid, “Electrical/Thermal Performance of Hybrid PV/T System in Sharjah, UAE “, International Journal of Smart Grid and Clean Energy, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 385-389, 2014.  A-K. Hamid, "Scattering of Chiral Semi-Elliptical Boss on a Ground Plane" International Journal on Communications Antenna and Propagation (IRECAPl), vol. 3, pp. 16-20, 2013.  A-K. Hamid, "Scattering by Chiral Lossy Metamaterial Elliptic Cylinders” Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal, vol. 27, pp. 603-609, 2012.  F. Cooray and A-K. Hamid, "Scattering from a Coated Perfect Electromagnetic Conducting Elliptic Cylinder", International Journal of Electronics and Communications, AEUE, vol. 66, pp. 472-479, 2012.  A-K. Hamid and F. Cooray, “TE Exact Scattering by a Perfect Electromagnetic Conducting Semi-Elliptic-Cylindrical Boss on a Perfectly Conducting Ground Plane”, International Journal of Electromagnetics and Mechanics, vol. 38, pp. 1-8, 2012.  A-K. Hamid, “Elliptic Cylinder with Slotted Antenna Coated by Magnetic Materials”, International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, vol. 2011, 5 pages, 2011. PAPERS IN REFREEED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS  A-K. Hamid “Scattering by a Chiral Elliptic Cylinder Placed in another Infinite Chiral Medium ”, 2017 International Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society (ACES), Firenze, Italy, March 26-30, 2017.  A-K. Hamid and Waleed Obaid, “Penta-Frequency CPW Bow-Tie Aperture Antenna for Mobile Communications”, Seventh International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Applied Optimization - 2017 (ICMSAO'17), American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, 4-6 April, 2017.  Chaouki Ghenai, Tareq Samir Zaki Salameh, Adel Merabet and A-K. Hamid, “'Modeling and Optimization of Hybrid Solar-Diesel-Battery Power System”, Seventh International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Applied Optimization - 2017 (ICMSAO'17), Sharjah, American University of Sharjah, UAE, 4-6 April, 2017.  Waleed Obaid and A-K. Hamid, M. Abdul Samad “Multi-Frequency CPW Bow-Tie Aperture Antenna With Rectangular and U Shape Metal Strips,” 5th International Conference on Electronic Devices, Systems, and Applications (ICEDSA-2016), Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, 6-8 December, 2016.  M. Abdul Samad and A-K. Hamid, “Miniaturization of Waveguide Antenna Using Square/Circular Arrays Of SRR,” 5th International Conference on Electronic Devices, Systems, and Applications (ICEDSA-2016), Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, 6-8 December, 2016.  Waleed Obaid and A-K. Hamid, “Simulation of CPW Bow-Tie Aperture Antenna Loaded With Metal Strips”, 16th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS2016)”, Al Ain University of Science and Technology (AAU), Abu Dhabi City - United Arab Emirates (UAE), November 14th-16th, 2016.  A-K. Hamid, “Metamaterial Coated Slotted Elliptic Antenna Embedded Partially in a Ground Plane”, 16th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS2016)”, Al Ain University of Science and Technology (AAU), Abu Dhabi City - United Arab Emirates (UAE), November 14th-16th, 2016.  A-K. Hamid, “Backscattering of PEMC Elliptic Cylinder with Anisotropic Dielectric Coating”, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS) and Applied Computational Electromagnetics (ACES-2016)”, Sheraton Waikiki Hotel and Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 13-17, 2016.  A-K. Hamid, “Scattering by a PEMC elliptic cylinder loaded with a chiral material”, 2nd International conference on communications, signal processing, and their applications (ICCSP15), American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Feb. 17-19, 2015  A-K. Hamid, “Axially Slotted Antenna on Elliptic Cylinder Coated With Biaxial Anisotropic Material,” 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, April 12-17, 2015.  Amna A. Alzaabi, Nadine K. Badawiyeha, Hind O. Hantousha and A-K. Hamid, “Performance of Hybrid Photovoltaic/Thermal System in Sharjah, UAE”, 7th International Forum on Engineering Education (IFEE2015) Jointly with 3rd Towards Sustainable Development (3rd TSD2015) Conference, 17-19 March 2015, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.  Hamed Allaham, A-K. Hamid and Ali Cheaitou, “Technical and Economical Analysis of Photovoltaic System Applied to a UAE Data Centre,” 7th International Forum on Engineering Education (IFEE2015) Jointly with 3rd Towards Sustainable Development (3rd TSD2015) Conference, 17-19 March 2015, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.  A-K. Hamid and F. Cooray, “Dipole Scattering from a Coated Perfect Electromagnetic Sphere”, 2013 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT-13), Dec. 3-5, 2013.
Thesis: - FDTD Modeling of Lossy Magnetic Coated Antennas and their Performance. -An Integrated Model for Forecasting Power Demand and Control Energy Flow in Large-Scale Grid Connected PV System Projects: - Design of PV power system for M9 - Design of maximum power tracking system for wind turbine - Design of PV/T - Design a Tire Pressure Monitoring System With No Batteries - Design of Solar Tracker - Design of Energy Saving Automatic control system
- Received the Research Incentive Award of the University of Sharjah in 2012/2013 for Excellence Performance in Research. - Received the Bonus Award of the University of Sharjah in 2005/2006 for Excellence Performance in Teaching, Research and Community service - Received the Research Award of the University of Sharjah in 2002/2003. - Received a Technical Contribution Certificate from the Mediterranean Microwave Symposium 2000. - Distinguished Performance in Teaching, Research and - Publications at KFUPM. - Nominated for the best distinguished student advising award at KFUPM, 2000. - Who's Who in the World, 22nd Edition, 2005
- Treating all students with absolute equality, regardless of gender or intellectual ability. - Making it clear that I am always available to help students. - Enthusiasm is critical to good teaching - I give professional examples by referring back to the standards of the engineering industry, where a single error could lead to tremendous expense or even loss of life
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