Mohamed Youssef
BASc, MASc, PhD (Queen's), PEng, SMIEEE
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
Contact information
2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, Ontario L1G 0C5
Office: ERC 3081
905.721.8668 ext. 5473
905.721.3370 (fax)
mohamed.youssef@ontariotechu.ca
https://engineering.ontariotechu.ca/research/research-labs/pedal.php
Research topics
- Propulsion Systems for the Automotive and Innovative Technologies like Hyperloop;
- Power Train for New Drives like Water Pumps;
- Railway Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC);
- Railways Traction Substation Design Planning, and Commissioning;
- Power Electronics Applications for the Information Technology (IoT);
- Power Electronics Applications in the Innovative Renewable Energy Resources;
- Power Supply Design for the Oil/Gas;
- Power Systems Operation and Stability.
Education
- PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Queen’s University 2005
- MSc (Power Electronics), Concordia University 2001
- MSc (Electric Power and Machines), Ain Shams University 1999
- BSc (Electric Power and Machines), Ain Shams University 1995
Courses
- Electrical Circuit Theory
- Electromagnetics I
- PASCAL
- Electrical Energy Conversion
- Design and Performance of Direct Current Machines
- Design and Performance of Alternating Current Machines
- Electrical Measurements and Instrumentation
- Transmission of Electrical Energy
- Power System Analysis
- Economics and Generation of Electrical Power
- Microprocessor Programming and Embedded Systems Application in Power Engineering
- Numerical Analysis
- Power Engineering Laboratories
- Project Management in Electrical Engineering
- Introduction to Electrical Engineering
- Analog and Digital Electronics
- Power Electronics
Research and expertise
- Work experience
- Professional activities
- Honours and awards
- Professional Affiliations and Activities
- Research Awards
- Interim chair; IEEE Student Chapter at UOIT in 2017/2018.
- Session chair; IEEE International Conference on Energy and Telecommunications (INTELEC) in 2016.
- Technical chair, IEEE SEGE conference, UOIT, Oshawa in 2015.
- Track chair, IEEE SEGE conference, UOIT, Oshawa in 2016.
- Invited talk at the IEEE Ottawa branch in 2017.
- Invited talk at the IEEE Middle East Power Engineering conference (MEPCON), Cairo, Egypt, 2016.
- Invited talk at the Hydrogen Business Council (HBC) in Toronto, December 2017.
- Session chair, IEEE ITEC Asia Conference, June 2016.
- Session chair, IEEE International Transportation Electrification Conference, Dearborn, Michigan, June 2015.
- Vice-chair, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), Toronto Section, February 2015-Present
- Invited Talk by IEEE Industrial Applications (IAS) society of Montreal in Ecole Technologie Superior (ETS), March 2014.
- Invited Talk as a keynote speaker to the IEEE Zaytooneh Sustainability conference (ZEC), Amman, Jordan, 2014.
- IEEE ISIE Session Chair, Turkey, Istanbul, 2014
- Reviewer of the IEEE transactions on industrial electronics;
- Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics;
- Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Sustainability Energy;
- Reviewer of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE 2015) conference;
- Reviewer of the IEEE Journal of Selected and Emerging Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE).
- Reviewer of the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Engineering (ISIE 2015).
- IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Reviewer, since 2003
- IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Dynamics, Reviewer, since 2002
- IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), Reviewer, since 2002
- IEEE Power Electronics Specialist Conference (PESC), Reviewer, 2002
- IEEE International Conference on Industry and Technology (ICIT), Reviewer, 2004
Demonstrating the One Million Dollar funding; Funding held within UOIT is $1,007,500; excluding outside UOIT Funding
- Grant: Active Levitation and Propulsion System (ALPS) for Hyperloop Transportation (2018-2019)
- Purpose (Research, Travel, Publications)
- Name of Agency: Transport Canada.
- Title: Active Levitation and Propulsion System (ALPS) for Hyperloop Transportation
- Amount: $25,000 for 1 year
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef
- Grant: The inGear Transmission Integration in Electric Vehicles (2018-2021)
- Purpose (Research, Travel, Publications)
- Name of Agency: NSERC CRD Program
- Title: The inGear Transmission Integration in Electric Vehicles
- Amount: $390,000 for 3 years
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef
- Cooperating Principal Investigator: Aboelmagd Noureldin (Royal Military College of Canada)
- Grant: Innovative Power Electronics Components, Control Systems, and Motor Design Techniques for Future Smart Power Drive Systems (2017-2022)
- Purpose (Research, Travel, Publications)
- Name of Agency: NSERC Discovery Grant Program
- Title: Innovative Power Electronics Components, Control Systems, and Motor Design Techniques for Future Smart Power Drive Systems
- Amount: $196,000 for 7 years ($28,000/yr) with Covid-Award
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef
- Grant: Smart Drives for Wireless Water Pumps (2016-2018)
- Purpose (Research, Travel, Publications)
- Name of Agency: Ontario Center of Excellence (OCE)-VIP Program
- Title: Smart Drives for Wireless Water Pumps
- Amount: $65,000 for 18 months
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef
- Grant: Innovative health monitoring system for smart motor drives in the water pump (2016-2018)
- Purpose (Research, Travel, Publications)
- Name of Agency: NSERC CRD Program
- Title: Innovative health monitoring system for smart motor drives in the water pump
- Amount: $105,000 for 2 years
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef
- Grant: Wire-to-water Efficiency Improvement Water Heater Circulators using Innovative Electric Drivetrains (2017-2019)
- Purpose (Research, Travel, Publications)
- Name of Agency: NSERC CRD Program
- Title: Wire-to-water Efficiency Improvement Water Heater Circulators using Innovative Electric Drivetrains
- Amount: $100,000 for 2 years
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef
- Grant: New High Power Density Hybrid Drive Package Family for the Rail and the Automotive Applications with Energy Storage Capabilities (2015-2017)
- Purpose (Research, Travel, Publications)
- Name of Agency: NSERC Discovery Development Grant Program
- Title: New High Power Density Hybrid Drive Package Family for the Rail and the Automotive Applications with Energy Storage Capabilities
- Amount: $20,000 for 2 years
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef
- Grant: New High Power Density Hybrid Drive Package Family for the Rail and the Automotive Applications with Energy Storage Capabilities (2015-2017)
- Purpose (Research, Travel, Publications)
- Name of Agency: NSERC Internal Funding Program (UOIT Award)
- Title: New High Power Density Hybrid Drive Package Family for the Rail and the Automotive Applications with Energy Storage Capabilities
- Amount: $7,500 for 1 year
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef
- Grant: InMotive Transmission System Modeling in Electric Vehicles (2015-2016)
- Purpose (Research, Travel, Publications)
- Name of Agency: NSERC Engage Program
- Title: InMotive Transmission System Modeling in Electric Vehicles
- Amount: $25,000
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef
- Grant: Defense Research and Development Canada (DRDC) (2015-2019)
- Purpose (Research, Publications)
- Name of Agency: DRDC, March 2015-3 years
- Amount: 50,000$/yr. (Total: $200,000)
- Principal Investigator (PI): Prof. M. Tarbouchi, Prof. Francis Okou, & Prof. Derek Bouchard (RMC), and Mohamed Z. Youssef: Co-PI
- Grant: Efficient Design for a Water Pump (2014-2016)
- Purpose (Research, Travel, Publications)
- Name of Agency: Ontario Center of Excellence (OCE) and Connect Canada- March 2014 for 2 years.
- Title: Efficient Design of Water Pumps
- Amount: $95,000 from OCE-VIP I
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef
- Fellowship: Internship for a graduate student with the OCE project
- Purpose (Research)
- Name of agency: Auto 21- September 2014- December 2014.
- Title: Efficient Design of Water Pumps
- Amount: $10,000 from Auto21
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef, Student: Mahmoud Eid
- Fellowship: Mitacs Globalink
- Purpose (Research, Travel)
- Name of Agency: Mitacs Globalink
- Title: Model of Hybrid Car Power Train
- Amount: $9,500- May 2014-September 2014
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef, and Student: Bahadir Talu from Turkey.
- Fellowship: Mitacs Globalink
- Purpose (Research, Travel)
- Name of Agency: Mitacs Globalink
- Title: Model of Hybrid Car Power Train
- Amount: $9,500- May 2015-September 2015
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef, and Student: Mustafa Besirli from Turkey.
- Fellowship: Student Training Assistantship in Research (STAR)
- Purpose (Research)
- Name of Agency: Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
- Title: Model of Hybrid BMW X3
- Amount: $4,500- May 2015-September 2015
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef, and Student: Minh Nguyen.
- Fellowship: Student Training Assistantship in Research (NSERC USRA)
- Purpose (Research)
- Name of Agency: Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
- Title: Model of Power Train of Electric Vehicles
- Amount: $6,000- May 2016-September 2016
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef, and Student: Jordan Henry.
- Fellowship: Student Training Assistantship in Research (NSERC USRA)
- Title: Single Stage Inverters for Solar Energy Harvesting
- Purpose (Research)
- Name of Agency: Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
- Amount: $6,000- May 2018-September 2018
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef, and Student: Anshuman Sharma.
- Title: Power Supply for the Oil/Gas Industry
- Name of Agency: Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) & ONTARIO CENTER OF Innovation
- Amount: $56,000- May 2019-September 2021
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef
- Title: Single Stage Inverters for Solar Energy Harvesting
- Fellowship: Mitacs Globalink
- Title: Power Converters for the Automotive Industry
- Purpose (Research, Travel)
- Name of Agency: Mitacs Globalink
- Amount: $9,500- May 2015-September 2015
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef, and Student: Yasmine Bahria from Tunisia.
- Title: Power Converters for the Solar Integrated Electric Vehicle Charging
- Name of Agency: Mitacs Globalink
- Amount: $9,500- May 2019-September 2019
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef, and Student: Fourat Zribi from Tunisia
- Title: Power Converters for Electric Vehicle Charging Applications
- Name of Agency: Mitacs Globalink
- Amount: $9,500- May 2019-September 2019
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef, and Student: Nourhene Siala from Tunisia.
- Title: Power Converters for the Hyperloop
- Name of Agency: Mitacs Globalink
- Amount: $9,500- May 2020-September 2020
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef, and Student: Abdelatif Ltifi from Germany
- Title: Power Converters for the Automotive Industry
- Name of Agency: Mitacs Globalink
- Amount: $9,500- May 2022-September 2022
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef, and Student: Sachin Chahar from India.
- Title: Power Converters for the Automotive Industry
- Name of Agency: Mitacs Globalink
- Amount: $9,500- May 2022-September 2022
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef, and Student: Injila Sajid from India.
- Title: Power Converters for the Automotive Industry
- Name of Agency: NSERC USRA
- Amount: $9,500- May 2022-September 2022
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef, and Ron Hui.
- Title: Power Converters for the Automotive Industry
- Name of Agency: Mitacs Globalink
- Amount: $9,500- May 2022-September 2022
- Principal Investigator: Mohamed Z. Youssef, and Student: Adeen Khan from India.
- Title: Power Converters for the Automotive Industry