Professor Omar Hanafy Abdalla (Fellow EIEE, Senior Member IEEE) was born in Cairo,
Egypt on 11 May, 1945. He received the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from the
University of Liverpool, England, in 1979. Since B. Sc. graduation in 1967, he has been
appointed in various positions in university teaching and research as follows: Engineer
1967, Demonstrator 1970, Lecturer 1976, Associate Professor 1983, Professor 1987, Head of
Department 1987, Vice-Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Research 1997, Dean of the
Faculty of Engineering 2002-2005, and Professor Emeritus 2005-Now. He has published over
80 papers, supervised 21 M.Sc. and Ph.D. students, and acted as a Reviewer for many
national and international periodicals and conferences: (e.g. Proceedings IET, IEEE
Transactions, IJEEPS, MEPCON, etc.). He has been a leader of many research and consulting
activities with industry including electrical power systems, economical lighting,
electricity distribution networks, urban village planning, modern control systems, etc.
He was the Chairman of Board of Directors of the Consulting Service Unit (2002-2005). He
was a member of Board of Directors of the South Cairo Electricity Company (2004-2007). He
has been engaged in many activities with professional and social societies including IEEE
PES, EIEE, and others. As a Vice-President of the Egyptian Institute of Electrical
Engineers, and member of the Continuing Education Center, Prof. Abdalla has provided many
fruitful seminars, meetings and conferences of industrial and professional groups for
constructive and productive discussions. As a Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, he has
introduced new programs in the faculty departments and led the promotion of essential
administration and students' activities. He organized, supervised and participated
in teaching training courses for engineers and technicians. Prof. Abdalla holds over 10
international recognitions (Who's Who) from different international organizations
and committees. He received a number of scientific prizes and awards. Currently, he is on
leave from the University of Helwan; working "System Studies Advisor" with Oman
Electricity Transmission Company, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.

Control of Industrial Systems

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Development of Measuring and Computer Interface System for an Industrial Electrostatic Precipitator (with Soliman M. Sharaf and Hazem F. Feshara), Proceedings of the Second Ain Shams University International Conference on Environmental Engineering, Cairo, Egypt. (2007)

The paper describes the design and practical implementation of a measuring and digital computer interface...

 

Power System Stability

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Coordinated Design of Power System Stabilizers and Static VAR Compensators in a Multimachine Power System using Genetic Algorithms (with Wedad M. Refaey, Mohamed K. Saad, and Gamal M. Sarhan), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Electrical Engineering, ICEEENG 2008, Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt. (2008)
This paper presents a procedure to coordinated design of PSSs and SVCs in a multimachine...
 

Transmissiom Systems

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Key Performance Indicators of a Transmission System (with Masoud Awlad-Thani, Mohamed Al-Wardi, Khalfan Al-Qaidi, Saqar Al-Farsi, Ibrahim Al-Balushi, and Saeed Al-Mahdhoori), Proceedings of the 5th GCC Cigre International Conference, Riyadh, KSA, 19-21 October (2009)

The paper concerns with formulae and calculations of a selected group of Key Performance Indicators...