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Master's Thesis: Investigation of Transient Stability in a Distribution System with Renewable. Energy Integration. ▫ B
KIFAH DAHER www.kifahdaher.com Address: Byblos, Lebanon Email: [email protected] Mobile: +961 70 727 900

RESEARCH INTEREST Smart Grid Distributed Generation Renewable Energy Integration Control Systems

Power Electronics and converters Electrical Installation Power system control Energy Generation

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS M.S. in Electrical Engineering- Power and Control, University of Balamand, 2013 Thesis Title: Investigation of Transient Stability In a Distribution System With Renewable Energy Integration. (Top 2% of my group) B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Balamand, 2012 Project Title: An Educationally Designed Software Application for AM Communication Systems Cycle A (L1+L2) Genie Electrotechnique, Universite Libanaise ISAE- CNAM.

RELEVANT WORK & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE § Master’s Thesis: Investigation of Transient Stability in a Distribution System with Renewable Energy Integration. § BS Project: An Educationally Designed Software Application for AM Communication Systems, LabView. § Power System Control: Power System Stabilizer Comparison for Stability Enhancement of Power System. § Optimal Control Systems: Balancing a Two-Wheeled Segway. § Power Systems: Design of Power Flow Analysis Software, Evaluation of Fault Analysis. § Power Quality: Power quality effects on the measurement of reactive power in three phase power systems for different types of efficient lights. § Advanced Electric Machines: Stationary Magnetically Coupled Circuits, Transformer Modeling, Dynamic Analysis and modeling of DC and AC Machine, under Matlab/Simulink. § Fuzzy logic controller: Tuning Of Fuzzy PID Controllers, Inverted Pendulum modeling, Two Tank System. § Microprocessor: Voltage regulation for electrical appliances under microprocessor topology.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Graduate Research Assistantship, University of Balamand, 2012-2013. • Smart Grid and Distributed Generation • Matlab Tutoring for Graduate students • Stability of a Distribution system with DG integration Intern Research Engineer, Matelec s.a.l., 2012 • Earthing & Grounding System Calculation • AC/DC Design Calculation • Single Lines and Detailed drawing design for power substation

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INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE Power Engineer, Matelec s.a.l. Lebanon 2010-2012 • Developing and design of Single Lines diagrams for high voltages power substation • Developing and design of Protection and Control detailed drawings • Earthing and Grounding system design for HV power and substation • Follow up and project managing Electrical Design Engineer, Matelec s.a.l. Lebanon 2007-2010 • AC / DC design calculation • Lighting, Heating & auxiliary services design calculation • Designing control & protection panels architecture • Wiring Diagram execution. • Designing and execution of Functional Test Diagrams.

PUBLICATIONS & SELECTED PAPERS § Daher, K., Chlela, M. and Najjar M. (2013, October). Investigation of transient stability of DG integration in Lebanon. Presented at the International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA) 2013, Madrid, Spain. § Chlela, M., Daher K. and Najjar M. (2013, October). Optimized Self-Sustained Renewable DG Integration in the Lebanese Power Grid. Presented at the International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA) 2013, Madrid, Spain. § Daher, K. and Najjar M. (2013, September). Critical Clearing Time and Voltage Stability of DG Integration in Lebanon: A Simulation Using Matlab/Simulink. Accepted to Journal of Energy and Power Engineering, David Publishing.

TECHNICAL & COMPUTER SKILLS Operating Systems: OSX, Windows, UNIX Programming Languages: C/C++, Visual Basic, C++, java Scientific Applications: Expert in MATLAB/Simulink, LabVIEW, PowerWorld Sim, Multisim Technical Drawing: AutoCAD, SEE Electrical Expert, CDEGS Software Solutions: Proteus, MpLab, Ecodial, Relux, Enerlus, JD Edwards Office Applications: Microsoft PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Word, Access,Visio Hardware Engineering: RaspberryPI, Arduino, PIC microcontrollers

HONORS AND AWARDS § First Prize Electrical Engineering Project Certificate of Appreciation, Order of Engineers & Architects Projects Exhibition - Tripoli, 2013. § Third Price Winner, Byblos Startup Weekend Nov15-17, 2013 LAU - Byblos. § Graduate Research Assistantship, University of Balamand, 2012-2013 § Remarkable Participation Certificate, MARCAB IV Mobile Autonomous Robotics Competition, University of Balamand, 2013. § Certificate of Attendance, Author Workshop by Springer and Edanz “How To Publish a Scientific Journal Article”, University of Balamand, 2013. § Certificate of Attendance, HVDC Transmission: Developments and Challenges. Tutorial by Dr. Khaled Ahmed, University of Aberdeen.

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Knowledge of Operating Systems and Networks. Languages: Arabic (native language), English (fluent), French (fluent). Efficient, organized, reliable, fast-learner, highly motivated, get the job done. I have great interest in tech startups, research, scouting, sports and traveling.

REFERENCES Prof. Maged B. Najjar Ph. D. Department of Electrical Engineering University of Balamand North Tripoli, Lebanon E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: +961 3 669 542 Prof. Najjar is my Master’s thesis supervisor. Mr. Farid Fakhry Electrical Engineering Chief Department Matelec s.a.l.: Engineering and Contracting Division E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: +961 3 254 717

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