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Association of Sudanese-American Professors in America


Professor and Head at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Dr. Abdelrahman Karrar received his Bachelors and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Khartoum in 1985 and 1989, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Loughborough University, U.K., in 1992. He is currently a Full Professor and the Head of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Dr. Karrar has extensive experience in the power industry, and his research interests include power systems stability, power systems operation, and power systems modeling and simulation. He has 30 years of experience as an academic, researcher, power systems analyst, and industry consultant on power systems, including 22 years at the University of Khartoum, where he served as the Head of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department and consulted for the National Electricity Corporation of Sudan, the Sudanese Electricity Transmission Company, and the Ministry of Electricity and Dams for about 11 years (2003 - 2014). His extensive work and research experience in the US includes leading award-winning research on the Open-Phase problem in nuclear power plants and on evaluating the performance of nuclear power plant auxiliaries, research on power system oscillations, and working extensively on real-time computers and hardware-in-the-loop concepts and led research on and developed methods for improving parallel computations on real-time target computers

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  1. DrKhairi says:

    Salamat Dr. Maha
    I just joined the group of ASAPA.
    Dr. Mohamed Khairi

  2. Osman says:

    Nice job .. proud of๐Ÿ˜‚

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