About

Dr. Ahmed Abuhussein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Cyber Engineering (ECE) at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA. Before joining Gannon, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA).

In addition to his academic role, Dr. Abuhussein is an Engineering Consultant at Wabtec Corporation, where he develops real-time simulation models for locomotives and auxiliary systems.

Dr. Abuhussein holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from the University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA, and a B.S. in Electrical Power Engineering from Tafila Technical University (TTU), Jordan.

He is an active member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) and the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES). Within the IEEE Erie Section, he has served as Secretary and currently holds the position of Vice President. He is also a member of IEEE’s honor society, Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), and serves as the faculty advisor for both the IEEE-HKN Chapter and the IEEE Student Club at Gannon University.

Dr. Abuhussein’s research interests include fault current limiters, power quality, geomagnetically induced currents (GIC), power electronics, AC/DC microgrids, renewable energy systems, energy storage systems, and flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS).