Professional
Activities:
Vice President, IEEE Publications Board, 2006
Member, IEEE Board of Governors, 2006
Member, Editorial Board, Proceedings of the IEEE, 2004-2006
Vice Chair, IEEE Publications Board, 2004-2005
Vice President, IEEE Power Engineering Society, 1999-2003
Research
Interests:
Energy and Global Environment, Alternate Energy, Critical Infrastructure
Assessment and Modeling, Uncertainty Evaluation.
Current
or Recent Research Sponsors:
National
Science Foundation, Academic Liaison Office (USAID),
US Department
of Energy, Virginia
Department of Minerals, Mines and Energy.
Teaching
Interests/Courses:
Critical infrastructures, Alternate Energy, Environmental Studies
ECE4364:
Alternate Energy Systems
ECE5364:
Electrical Energy and Environmental Systems
Selected
Publications/Presentations:
1. "The telecommunication infrastructure: A model for optimum
voice-data coverage", M. Pipattanasomporn and S. Rahman,
Utilities Policy, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online
24 July 2006.
2. "Intelligent
Distributed Autonomous Power Systems (IDAPS) and their Impact
on Critical Electrical Loads", M. Pipattanasomporn and
S. Rahman, Proceedings 1st IEEE International Workshop on
Critical Infrastructure Protection, Nov 3-4, 2005, pp. 101-109.
3. "Implications
of On-Site Distributed Generation for Commercial/Industrial
Facilities", M. Pipattanasomporn, M. Willingham and S.
Rahman, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 20,
no. 1, Feb 2005, pp. 206-212.
4. Invited
lecture at the University of Electronic Sciences and Technology
of China, IT Now and
Future Forum, Chengdu, China, "Critical
Information Infrastructure Assurance: Its Challenges and Opportunities",
by S. Rahman, Sep 2006.
5.
Invited talk at the IEEE Richmond Section, Richmond, Virginia,
"Wind
Energy: Opportunities and Challenges for Offshore Applications",
by S. Rahman, G. Hagerman and M. Pipattanasomporn, Sep 2006.
6. Invited lecture at the
4th EAPC/PfP Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Protection
& Civil Emergency Planning: Building Bridges between Stakeholders
to Mitigate Disasters, Zurich, Switzerland, "Energy
Networks for Sustainable Communication Systems and Mitigation
of Civil Disasters", by S. Rahman, Aug 2006.
7. Keynote address at the
4th EAPC/PfP Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Protection
& Civil Emergency Planning: Building Bridges between Stakeholders
to Mitigate Disasters, Zurich, Switzerland, "ICT-Integrated
Energy Infrastructure", by S. Rahman, Aug 2006.
8.
Invited lecture to the South Africa Section of IEEE and
the South Africa Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE) at
Wits University, West Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa,
"Greenhouse
Gas Emissions and Climate Change",
by S. Rahman, May 2006.
9.
Keynote address at the International Conference on Industrial
and Commercial User of Energy (ICUE), Cape Town, South Africa,
"Energy
Use and National Energy Efficiency Strategies in China, India,
USA and the EU", by S. Rahman, May 2006.
10. Invited
presentation at the China Electric Power Research Institute,
Beijing, China, "Global
Energy Use, Distributed Generation and Energy Efficiency",
by S. Rahman, Apr 2006.
More
publications and presentations
Education:
PhD, Electrical Engineering, Virginia
Tech, 1978
MS, Electrical Engineering, State
Univ. of New York, 1975
BSc, Electrical Engineering, Bangladesh
Univ. of Engineering & Technology, 1973
Current
VT Appointments:
Director, Center
for Energy and the Global Environment
Director, Advanced
Research Institute
Affiliate Faculty, Center
for Power Engineering
