
Dr. Hussain Attia
Assistant Professor-Electronics Engineering
Dr. Hussain Attia is an instructor in the EECE Lab of the Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering Department; he has taught Introduction to Engineering, Introduction to Electrical Engineering Lab, Introduction to Signal Analysis Lab, Signal and Systems I Lab., Electric Circuit Analysis I Lab., Electric Circuit Analysis II Lab., Signal and Systems II Lab., Digital System Design Lab., Linear Electronics I Lab., Electric Machines Lab., Linear Electronics II Lab., and Communication Engineering Lab. Before coming to AURAK, Dr. Attia held various nonacademic positions, including work with Simatic Step 7, and NI-National Instruments with HMI. His experience included work with control, monitoring, and protection systems designed for robotized car parking, design and implementation drives for AC & DC motors, and other work for robotic systems, including design and implementation of different electronic circuits and panels.
Dr. Hussain Attia earned his Ph.D. in Power Electronics from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2019 and his M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering and B.Sc. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq in 1999, and 1991 respectively.
Research
- Dr. Attia is a member and reviewer of the IEEE Society, IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics, IET-Power Electronics, IET-Electric Power Applications, IEEE Conferences. His research interest include Power Electronics, AC/DC Drives, Solar PV Converters and Inverters, Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) Techniques, Improving Inverter Performance, Harmonics Elimination/Reduction Techniques, and Maximum Power Point Tracking Techniques. Since 2000, he has been working on many research projects in power electronics and renewable energy generations and conversions. During the last five years, Dr. Hussain published more than 50 research papers, most of them in the field of Power Electronics. He served as a technical and organizing member for many IEEE and international conferences such as ICEDSA鈥16, ICECTA鈥17 and ICEWES鈥18.
Publications
Book Chapter
- Hussain A. Attia, Yousif I. Al-Mashhadany, Beza N. Getu, 鈥淒esign and Simulation of a High Performance Standalone Photovoltaic System鈥, ICREGA鈥14 鈥 Renewable Energy: Generation and Applications, Springer Proceedings in Energy 2014, pp 683-697.
Peer-reviewed Journals Papers
- HA Attia, TKS Freddy, HS Che, WP Hew, AH El Khateb, 鈥淐onfined Band Variable Switching Frequency Pulse Width Modulation (CB-VSF PWM) for a Single-Phase Inverter With an LCL Filter, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (ISI indexed),32 (11), 2017, 8593-8605.
- Hussain A. Attia, Tan Kheng Suan Freddy, Hang Seng Che and Ahmad H. El Khateb, 鈥淒esign of LLCL Filter for Single Phase Inverter with Confined Band Variable Switching Frequency (CB-VSF) PWM鈥, In publication process in Journal of Power Electronics (SCI E and SCOPUS),19, Iss. 1, pp. 44-57, Publisher KIPE, Jan. 2019.
- Hussain Attia, Beza Getu, Abdullah Asaad, Ahmed Abbas, Mahmoud Al Nuaimi, Abdulhadi Brazi, 鈥淚mplementation of sequential design based water level monitoring and controlling system鈥, International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering IJECE (SCOPUS indexed Journal-Q2) , Vol. 9, No. 2, April 2019, pp. 967-972.
- Hussain Attia, 鈥淎 Stand-alone Solar PV System with MPPT Based on Fuzzy Logic Control for Direct Current Portable House Applications鈥, International Review on Modelling and Simulations IREMOS (SCOPUS indexed Journal-Q2), Vol. 11, No. 6, 2018.
- Hussain Attia, 鈥淎rtificial Neural Networks Based Maximum Power Point Tracking Photovoltaic System for Remote Park LED Lighting Applications鈥, International Review on Modelling and Simulations IREMOS (SCOPUS indexed Journal-Q2), Vol. 11, No. 6, 2018.
- Hussain A. Attia and Fernando del Ama Gonzalo, 鈥淪tand-alone PV System with MPPT Function Based on Fuzzy Logic Control for Remote Building Applications鈥, International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems IJPEDS (SCOPUS indexed Journal-Q3),Vol 10, No 2: June 2019.
- Hussain A. Attia, 鈥淗igh Performance PV System Based on Artificial Neural Network MPPT with PI Controller for Direct Current Water Pump Applications鈥, International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems IJPEDS (SCOPUS indexed Journal-Q3), Vol 10, No 3: Sep. 2019.
- Hussain Attia, 鈥淓valuation of Selective Harmonic Elimination Pulse Width Modulation Technique for Unipolar Single-Phase H-Bridge Inverter: Comparative Study鈥, International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems IJPEDS (SCOPUS indexed Journal-Q3), Vol. 9, Iss. 3, 2018, pp. 1157-1165.
- Hussain Attia, 鈥淔uzzy Logic Controller Effectiveness Evaluation through Comparative Memberships for Photovoltaic Maximum Power Point Tracking Function鈥, International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems IJPEDS (SCOPUS indexed Journal-Q3), Vol. 9, Iss. 3, 2018, pp. 1147-1156.
- Hussain A. Attia & Halah Y. Ali, 鈥淲ireless Alarming System for Ketosis Proactive Detection in Dairy Cattle鈥, Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 13, Iss. 13, 2018, pp. 5116-5121, 2018.
- H Attia, A Omar, M Takruri, HY Ali, 鈥淧ulse Width Modulation Based decentralized Street LED Light Dimming System鈥, International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems IJPEDS(SCOPUS indexed Journal-Q3), 8 (3), 2017, pp. 1238-1247.
- Hussain Attia, 鈥淣ovel 9-Steps Automatic Voltage Regulator based on Two Step-Down Transformers鈥, International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering IJECE (SCOPUS indexed Journal-Q2), Vol. 7, No. 2, April 2017, pp. 576~583.
- Attia Hussain, Sagafinia Ali, 鈥淣ovel Discrete Components Based Speed Controller for Induction Motor鈥, International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems IJPEDS (SCOPUS indexed Journal-Q3), Vol. 7, Iss. 4, (2016).
- H Attia, 鈥淎 Binary Weighted 7-steps Automatic Voltage Regulator鈥, Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology (SCOPUS indexed Journal), 12 (9), (2016) 947-954.
- HA Attia, BN Getu, 鈥淎uthorized Timer for Reduction of Electricity Consumption and Energy saving in Classrooms鈥, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research (SCOPUS indexed Journal), 11 (15), (2016), 8436-8441.
- BN Getu, HA Attia, 鈥淓lectricity Audit and Reduction of Consumption: Campus Case Study鈥, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research (SCOPUS indexed Journal), 11 (6), (2016) 4423-4427.
- H Attia, BN Getu, N Hamad, 鈥淎 Stable DC Power Supply for Photovoltaic Systems鈥, Int. J. of Thermal & Environmental Engineering 12 (1), (2016) 67-71.
- HA Attia, HY Ali, 鈥淓lectronic Design of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Leakage Monitoring, Alarm, and Protection System Based on Discrete Components鈥, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research IJAER (SCOPUS indexed Journal) 11 (19), (2016), 9721-9726.
- HA Attia, 鈥淢ulti-Functional Microcontroller Based Monitoring, Alarming and Protection System鈥, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research IJAER (SCOPUS indexed Journal), 11 (18), (2016), 9491-9496.
- HA Attia, M Takruri, 鈥淩FID Code Wireless Transceiver System Based on Amplitude Shift Keying Modulation鈥, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research (SCOPUS indexed Journal), 11 (10), (2016) 7155-7158.
- M Takruri, HA Attia, MH Awad, 鈥淲ireless Charging in the Context of Sensor Networks鈥, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research (SCOPUS indexed Journal), 11 (12), (2016) 7736-7741.
- Beza Negash Getu, Hussain A. Attia, 鈥淩emote Controlling of Light Intensity using Phone Devices鈥, Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology RJASET (SCOPUS indexed Journal), Vol. 10, Iss. 10, 2015, pp. 1206-1215.
- Hussain A. Attia, Beza N. Getu, 鈥淒esign and Simulation of Remotely Power Controller鈥, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research IJAER (SCOPUS indexed Journal), 10 (12), (2015) 32609-32626.
- H Attia, 鈥淭hree Steps AC Voltage Regulator Based on One Step-down Transformer鈥, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research (SCOPUS indexed Journal), 10 (19), (2015) 39898-39902.
- Beza N Getu, Nasser A Hamad, Hussain A Attia, 鈥淓lectromagnetic Fields Measurements of a Cellular Mobile Systems鈥, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research (SCOPUS indexed Journal), 10 (10), (2015) 26307-26320.
- Yousif I. Al-Mashhadany, Hussain A. Attia, 鈥淗igh Performance for Real Portable Charger through Low-Power PV System鈥, International Journal of Sustainable and Green Energy. Special Issue: Engineering Solution for High Performance of Solar Energy System. Vol. 4, No. 3-1, (2015), pp. 14-18.
- Beza N. Getu, Nasser A. Hamad, Hussain A. Attia, 鈥楻emote Controlling of an Agricultural Pump System Based on the Dual Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) Technique鈥, Journal of Engineering Science & Technology (JESTEC), Vol. 10, Iss. 10, October 2015, Taylor鈥檚 University, Malaysia.
- Attia H.A., Getu B.N., 鈥淒esign & Simulation of a Solar Tracking System for Optimum Energy Absorption鈥, International Journal of Thermal & Environmental Engineering, Volume 8, No. 1 (2014) 17-24.
- Attia H.A., Getu B.N., Ghadban H, Mustafa A. K. Abu , 鈥淧ortable Solar Charger with Controlled Charging Current for Mobile Phone Devices鈥, International Journal of Thermal & Environmental Engineering, Volume 7, No. 1 (2014) 17-24.
- YI Al-Mashhadany, HA Attia, 鈥淣ovel Design and Implementation of Portable Charger through Low-Power PV Energy System鈥, Advanced Materials Research 925, (2014) 495-499.
- Attia Hussain, 鈥淗igh Performance PV System Based on Artificial Neural Network MPPT with PI Controller for Direct Current Water Pump Applications鈥, Accepted in March 6, 2019 to be published in International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems IJPEDS (SCOPUS indexed Journal-Q3).
Peer-reviewed Conference Papers:
- Hussain Attia, 鈥淪upplying a Direct Current Electricity to the Isolated Dwellings through MPP Tracked PV System Based on Artificial Neural Network鈥, Accepted paper in 2nd March 2019 to be presented in 6th International Conference of Control, Dynamic Systems, and Robotics (CDSR鈥19), to be held in Ottawa, Canada during June 6 鈥 7, 2019.
- Hussain A. Attia, Mousa Mohsen, Basil Qadoor, Mohammed Al Shamsi, Osman Abdulsalam, Zahidur Rahman, 鈥淣ew Design and Implementation of AURAK Solar Car: Electrical Vision鈥, The International Conference on Energy, Water & Environmental Sciences (ICEWES 2018), November, 2018, Ras Al Khaimah-UAE.
- Hussain Attia, Maissa Farhat, Mousa Mohsen, Aaesha Alsadi, Abdulrahman Suliman, Ahmad Chohayber, Moath Alhalwani, Somaya Abuissa, Sumith Sunil, 鈥淣ovel Design of AURAK Hydrogen Car: Electrical Aspects鈥, The International Conference on Energy, Water & Environmental Sciences (ICEWES 2018), November, 2018, Ras Al Khaimah-UAE.
- Ahmad Amhani, Hussain A. Attia, Mousa Mohsen, 鈥淒esign and Implementation of Solar Tent Considering Gulf Countries Environmental Conditions鈥, The International Conference on Energy, Water & Environmental Sciences (ICEWES 2018), November, 2018, Ras Al Khaimah-UAE.
- Ahmad Amhani, Hussain A. Attia, Mousa Mohsen, 鈥淎utonomous Electronic System for Environmental Conditions Monitoring and Controlling Functions鈥, The International Conference on Energy, Water & Environmental Sciences (ICEWES 2018), November, 2018, Ras Al Khaimah-UAE.
- Ahmad Amhani, Hussain A. Attia, 鈥淎utonomous Dust Monitoring and Cleaning System for solar Panel Applications in GCC Region鈥, The International Conference on Energy, Water & Environmental Sciences (ICEWES 2018), November, 2018, Ras Al Khaimah-UAE.
- HA Attia, 鈥淐omparative design of fuzzy logic controller for photovoltaic panel maximum power point tracking鈥, Electrical and Computing Technologies and Applications (ICECTA), 2017, Ras Al Khaimah-UAE.
- M Al-Hattab, M Takruri, H Attia, H Al-Omari, 鈥淒ecentralized localization in wireless sensor networks鈥, Electrical and Computing Technologies and Applications (ICECTA), 2017, Ras Al Khaimah-UAE.
- HA Attia, S Ismail, HY Ali, 鈥淒esign of enhanced vehicle safety system based on the evaluation of driving errors鈥, Electrical and Computing Technologies and Applications (ICECTA), 2017, Ras Al Khaimah-UAE.
- Amhani, HA Attia, 鈥淥nline multi-parameters electronic monitoring system for solar photovoltaic panel applications鈥, Electrical and Computing Technologies and Applications (ICECTA), 2017, Ras Al Khaimah-UAE.
- HA Attia, A Omar, M Takruri, 鈥淒esign and implementation of wireless diagnostic system for street light dimming applications鈥, Electrical and Computing Technologies and Applications (ICECTA), 2017, Ras Al Khaimah-UAE.
- Hussain A Attia, Amjad Omar, Maen Takruri, 鈥淒esign of decentralized street LED light dimming system鈥, 5th International Conference Electronic Devices, Systems and Applications (ICEDSA鈥 2016), Ras Al Khaimah-UAE.
- Maen Takruri, Maram W Rashad, Hussain Attia, 鈥淢ulti-classifier decision fusion for enhancing melanoma recognition accuracy鈥, 5th International Conference Electronic Devices, Systems and Applications (ICEDSA鈥 2016), Ras Al Khaimah-UAE.
- A Omar, M Rashad, M Al-Mulla, H Attia, S Naser, N Dib, RM Shubair, 鈥淐ompact design of UWB CPW-fed-patch antenna using the super formula鈥, 5th International Conference Electronic Devices, Systems and Applications (ICEDSA鈥 2016), Ras Al Khaimah-UAE.
- Hussain A Attia, Maen Takruri, Halah Y Ali, 鈥淓lectronic monitoring and protection system for drunk driver based on breath sample testing鈥, 5th International Conference Electronic Devices, Systems and Applications (ICEDSA鈥 2016), Ras Al Khaimah-UAE.
- Beza Negash Getu, Hussain A Attia, 鈥淎utomatic Water Level Sensor and Controller System鈥, 5th International Conference Electronic Devices, Systems and Applications (ICEDSA鈥 2016), Ras Al Khaimah-UAE.
- Hussain A Attia, Shereen Ismail&, Halah Y Ali, 鈥淰ehicle Safety Distance Alarming System鈥, 5th International Conference Electronic Devices, Systems and Applications (ICEDSA鈥 2016), Ras Al Khaimah-UAE.
- Beza N Getu, Hussain A Attia, 鈥淎utomatic control of agricultural pumps based on soil moisture sensing鈥, IEEE Conference; AFRICON 2015, Sept. 2015, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- Hussain A. Attia , Beza Negash Getu, Nasser Hamad , 鈥淓xperimental Validation of DTMF Decoder Electronic Circuit to be used for Remote Controlling of an Agricultural Pump System鈥, The International Conference on Electrical and Bio-medical Engineering, Clean Energy and Green Computing (EBECEGC2015) , January 28-30, 2015, Dubai, UAE
- Beza N. Getu ; Hussain Al Thehabawy 鈥淚dentification of Dialed Telephone Numbers in Touch Tone Telephone System based on Frequency Analysis鈥, International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Analysis (ICCVIA鈥2014), 25-27 March, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.
- Hussain A. Attia, Beza N. Getu, Yousif I. Al-Mashhadany 鈥淒esign and Simulation of Dual Axis Solar Tracker for Optimum Solar Energy Absorption鈥, The International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Clean Energy and Green Computing (EEECEGC2013), December 11-13, 2013,Dubai, UAE.
- HA Attia, HW Ping, Y Al-Mashhadany, 鈥淒esign and analysis for high performance synchronized inverter with PWM power control鈥, 2013 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CEAT), Nov. 2013, Lankgkawi, Malaysia.
- Signal and Systems II Lab
- Electric Circuit Analysis I Lab
- Electric Circuit Analysis II Lab
- Digital Systems Design Lab
- Linear Electronics I Lab
- High Voltage engineering
- Linear Electronics II
- Linear Electronics II Lab
- Senior Design Project II