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Mahda Jahromi
Senior Lecturer, Communications, Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement Committee Chair, P.Eng.
Sustainable Energy Engineering
Education
- Ph.D., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, 2013
- M.Sc. Electrical Power Engineering, Shiraz University, 2007
- B.Sc. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Yazd University, 2004
Industrial and research interests
- Wind and Tidal Energy Converting Systems
- Microgrids and Distributed Energy Systems
- Power Quality Improvement and Power System Optimization
- Application of Power Electronics in Power Systems, Renewables and Electric Vehicles
- Application of Modern Control Techniques including Artificial Intelligence in Power Systems, Renewables and Electric Vehicles
Teaching interests
- Renewable Energy Systems
- Power Electronics
- Electric Machines and Drive Systems
- Control Techniques
- Power System Analysis
- Electric Circuits
Recently taught courses
- SEE 230 – Electric Circuits
- SEE 231 – Electronic Devices and Systems
- SEE 251 – Electric Machines and Energy Conversion
- SEE 331 – Power Electronics
- SEE 342 – Feedback Control Systems
- SEE 476 – Special Topics (Renewable Energy Systems)
- SEE 486 – Directed Studies
- ELEX 1117 – Digital Techniques 1 (BCIT, 2016-2018)
- ELEX 2117 – Digital Techniques 2 (BCIT, 2016-2019)
- ELEX 2105 – Circuit Analysis 2 (BCIT, 2016-2019)
- ELEX 3403 – Renewable Energy Systems (BCIT, 2017-2019)
- ELEX 7350 – Control and Dynamic Systems (BCIT, 2017-2019)
- SGST 9320 – Renewable & Distributed Energy Systems (BCIT, M.Eng. Program)
Selected recent publications
- M. Jahromi, "Balancing the Capacitor Voltage Drift in Neutral Point Clamped Converters", IEEE 5th International Conference on Electrical, Control and Instrumentation Engineering, K.L., Malaysia, Dec 2023
- M. Jahromi, "Application of Feedforward Compensation in the Design of Active Front-End Converters", IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109 – Helsinki, June 2022
- M. Jahromi, A. I. Maswood, and K.J. Tseng, "Design and Evaluation of a New Converter Control Strategy for Near Shore Tidal Turbines", Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions, vol. PP, pp. 1-1, 2012.
- M. Jahromi, A. I. Maswood, and K. J. Tseng, "Design and Evaluation of a Tidal In-Stream Generator Power Port", Systems Journal, IEEE, vol. PP, pp. 1-1, 2013.
- M. Jahromi, A. I. Maswood, and K.J. Tseng, "Long Term Prediction of Tidal Currents", Systems Journal, IEEE, vol. 5, pp. 146-155, 2011.
- M. Jahromi, A. I. Maswood, K.J. Tseng, Bicky Bhangu, “Tidal In-Stream Generation with Improved PCC Voltage Profile”, IEEE-PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, Washington, D.C., 2012
- M. Jahromi, A.I. Maswood, and K.J. Tseng, Bicky Bhangu, “Maximum Power Extraction of Tidal Streams”, IEEE - PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, Washington, D.C., 2012
- M. Jahromi, A.I. Maswood, and K.J. Tseng, “Comparison of Different Techniques for Short Term Prediction of Tidal Current Speeds”, IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA , July 2010
- M. Jahromi, M.H. Haque and K.J. Tseng, “Siting and sizing of distributed generation using three new indices”, IASTED International Conference on Solar Energy, SOE, Phuket, March 2009
- M. Jahromi, E. Farjah, and M. Zolghadri, "Mitigating voltage sag by optimal allocation of Distributed Generation using Genetic Algorithm", in Electrical Power Quality and Utilization, 2007. EPQU 2007. 9th International Conference on, 2007, pp. 1-6.
- M. Jahromi, S. Meshksar, E. Farjah, and M. Zolghadri, "Voltage Sag State Estimation for Power Distribution Systems Using Kalman Filter", in Industrial Electronics. ISIE 2007. IEEE International Symposium on, 2007
- S. Meshksar, M. Jahromi, O. Dehzangi, and A. J. Jahromi, "Nonlinear control of distillation column using feedback linearization", in Proceedings of the 26th IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification, and Control, 2007
- S. Meshksar, A. Khayatian, M. Jahromi, and M. Hashemi, "Modeling and Identification of a Pilot Distillation Column for Control and Estimation Using Genetic Algorithms", in Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 33rd Annual Conference of the IEEE, 2007
Recent Patents
- Portable Electric Braking System for Wind Turbines with Induction Generators – Int. Patent - WO2016095045
Scholarly activities and affiliations
Chair of the EGBC’s (EERED)
Chair of the “” Selection Committee
Senior Member of the (IEEE)
Chartered Professional Engineer (C.P.Eng) with Engineers Australia (2015-2019)
Member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society
Member of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
Member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Reviewer - IEEE Transactions On Industrial Electronics
Reviewer - IEEE Transactions On Sustainable Energy
Reviewer - IEEE Systems Journal
Reviewer - NSERC Idea to Innovation Grants
Reviewer - Recent Advances in Electrical & Electronic Engineering Journal
Courses
Summer 2025
Fall 2025
Future courses may be subject to change.