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Texas A&M Engineering's Ehsani elected SAE Fellow
Dr. Mehrdad (Mark) Ehsani has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers International
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Dr. Mehrdad (Mark) Ehsani, professor and holder of the Robert M. Kennedy '26 Professorship in Electrical Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International for his "outstanding accomplishments in the field of hybrid electric vehicles."
Ehsani will be honored at the SAE 2005 World Congress and Exposition in Detroit in April.
Widely recognized in the electrical engineering industry, Ehsani's research focuses on power electronics, motor drives, and hybrid vehicles and their control systems. He is the co-author of 12 books on power electronics, motor drives and advanced vehicle systems, including Vehicular Electric Power Systems (Marcel Dekker Inc., 2003) and Modern Electric Hybrid Vehicles and Fuel Cell Vehicles -- Fundamentals, Theory, and Design (CRC Press, 2004). He has also written more than 300 journal and conference papers and holds 23 U.S. and European Commission patents.
Ehsani was a research engineer for Argonne National Laboratory before joining Texas A&M's Department of Electrical Engineering in 1981. He has served as director for the Texas Applied Power Electronics Consortium in the Department of Electrical Engineering since 1981 and as the director of the Advanced Vehicle Systems Research Program in the Dwight Look College of Engineering since 1992.
Ehsani was the recipient of the Prize Paper Awards in Static Power Converters and motor drives at the IEEE-Industry Applications Society 1985, 1987 and 1992 annual meetings, as well as numerous other honors and recognitions. In 1984 he was named Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year by the Brazos chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers. Ehsani was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1986 and in 2001 received the IEEE Vehicular Society's Avant Garde Award for his "contributions to the theory and design of hybrid electric vehicles." In 2003 he received the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award "for outstanding contributions to advanced curriculum development and teaching of power electronics and drives."
Among his honors from Texas A&M Engineering are the 2003 BP Amoco Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence; the 2003 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award; the 2001 Ruth & William Neely `52/ Dow Chemical Faculty Fellow Award; the 1994 Dresser Industries Professorship; and the 1992 Halliburton Professorship.
Ehsani received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, all in electrical engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas.
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Reporter: Lesley Kriewald
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