Dr. Muhammad Harunur Rashid is an outstanding engineer employed by the University of Florida as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the UF/UWF Joint Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Rashid received B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Birmingham in UK. Previously, he worked as a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Chair of the Engineering Department at Indiana University- Purdue University at Fort Wayne. Also, he worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Connecticut, an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University Calumet, and Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering at King Fahd university of Petroleum and Minerals (Saudi Arabia), as a design and development engineer with Brush Electrical Machines Ltd. (England, UK), a Research Engineer with Lucas Group Research Centre (England, UK), a Lecturer and Head of Control Engineering Department at the Higher Institute of Electronics (Malta).
Dr. Rashid is actively involved in teaching, researching, and lecturing in power electronics and has published more than 100 technical papers and 14 books. His books are adopted as textbooks all over the world. His book on Power electronics has been translated in Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Korean and Persian languages.
Professor Rashid is a registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario (Canada), a registered Chartered Engineer (UK), a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE, UK) and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, USA). He was elected as an IEEE Fellow with the citation “Leadership in power electronics education and contributions to the analysis and design methodologies of solid-state power converters.” Dr. Rashid is the recipient of the 1991 Outstanding Engineer Award from The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Rashid was an ABET program evaluator for electrical engineering from 1995-2000 and he is currently an engineering evaluator for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS, USA). He has been elected as an IEEE-Industry Applications Society (IAS) a Distinguished Lecturer.
