Power System Protection and Relaying (ePub)

Samir I. Abood received his BS and MS from the University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq, in 1996 and 2001, respectively. He earned his PhD in the Electrical and Computer Engineering from Prairie View A&M University. From 1997 to 2001, he worked as an engineer at the University of Technology. From 2001 to 2003, he was a professor at the University of Baghdad and Al-Nahrain University. From 2003 to 2016, he was a Middle Technical University/Baghdad-Iraq professor. He is an electrical and computer engineering professor at Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View. He is the author of 30 papers and 12 books. His main research interests are sustainable power and energy systems, microgrids, power electronics and motor drives, digital PID controllers, digital methods for electrical measurements, digital signal processing, and control systems.

John Fuller is an electrical and computer engineering professor at Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Texas. He received a BSEE degree from Prairie View A&M University and a master's degree and a PhD degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He has researched some funded projects over a 48-year teaching career in higher education. Some of the major projects of his research efforts are hybrid energy systems, stepper motor control, the design and building of a solar-powered car, nuclear survivability and characterization on non-volatile memory devices, nuclear detector/sensor evaluation, and some other electrical and computer-related projects. Dr. Fuller is presently the coordinator of Title III funding to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in developing a solar-powered home. He is also the Center for Big Data Management associate director in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In addition to teaching and research duties with college-level students, he is also active in the PVAMU summer programs for middle and high school students. Dr. Fuller has