Prof. Hamdi Ali Ahmed Awad

Head of Industrial Electronics and Control Eng.

Executive Director of Industrial Automation Eng.

Title of Ph. D. Thesis:

Fuzzy Neural Networks for Modelling and Controlling Dynamic Systems, Cardiff University, Wales, England.

Major Specialization:

Control Systems Eng.

Minor Specialization:

Industrial Automation Systems

Field of Study/Research:

Biomedical Engineering, Intelligent Control Systems (Fuzzy logic, Neural networks, Discrete event systems, and their application in control and biomedical systems). The applications are:

·        Blood pressure control, Respirators

·        Boilers, Greenhouses, Mobile robots

·        Chemical reactors

·        Discrete Event Systems (DES), Petri nets

.        Industrial systems

Certifications or Professional Registrations:

- B. Sc. Menofia Unv., Egypt, May, 1988, in Industrial Electronics, Very good with honor degree.

-  M. Sc. Menofia Unv., Egypt, Jan.,  1994, in Adaptive Control Systems.

- Ph. D. Cardiff Unv., Wales, England, July, 2001, in Intelligent Control Systems

- Asst. Prof.  Menofia Unv., Egypt,  22/8/ 2007, Computer and Control Systems.

- Prof.  Menofia Unv., Egypt,  23/6/ 2014, Computer and Control Systems.

Membership in Professional Organizations:

Honors and Awards:

Menoufia University Award for excellent staff , 2004

Service Activities:

(Participate for funded national projects)

Principal Publications and Presentations of the Last Five Years:

Prof. Awad has published more than 40 papers in International Journals and conferences. Samples of these publications are listed as follows:

1. Hamdi Awad, "Supervisory control systems: Theory and industrial applications", In Tech Open Book Chapter, Published within the Book titled :Petri Theory and Industrial Applications , 2018.
2. H. Alla, H. Awad, A. Anwar, E. El-Hajri, "Modelling and control of KRC Systems Using TPN and TA", International Journal of Advanced Research in  Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, IJAREEIE, ISSN (Online): 2278 – 8875 , 4(1), 8-26, 2015.
3. Eid M. Al-Hajri, Hamdi A. Awad. "An efficient multiple fault detection and isolation scheme for discrete event system", International Journal of Automation and Power Engineering, 3(1), 41-48, 2014.
4. Hamdi A. Awad, " A unified frame work for discrete event systems",  International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems,  (11), 2013.
5. Elshenawy, Lamiaa, and  Hamdi A. Awad, " Recursive fault detection and isolation approaches of time-varying processes",  Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2012. ACS Publication
6. Hamdi A. Awad, " Fault diagnosis in discrete event systems: Improvements and new results", Proceedings of Alexandria Engineering Journal, AEJ'11, Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V.  on behalf of Faculty of Engineering, Alx. Unv., no. AEJ_30, Egypt,  2011. Elsevier
7. Hamdi A. Awad, "Issues in modeling, supervision, and fault detection for automated RTP systems", The 17^th Annual IEEE International Conference on Advanced Thermal Processing of Semiconductors, RTP-09 in Albany, NY, USA, pp. 177- 187, Sept. 29 - Oct. 2, 2009.
8. Hamdi A. Awad "A novel version of ELMAN neural networks for modeling and controlling medical systems, " Dynamic of Continuous, Discrete and Imulsive Systems, Series B: Theory and Applications, Special Volume: Advanced in Neural Networks, Theory and applications, No. 95, 2009.