Biography of the Principal of the Organization : Sayeed N Ghani

The principal engineer/consultant of this research and development (R & D) organization is Dr Sayeed Nurul Ghani. He is a native of Bangladesh and has been in the United Kingdom (UK) since 1963. He received his BSc degree in electrical and electronic engineering from University of Peshawar, Pakistan in 1961 with a Gold Medal and President of Pakistan’s Award for meritorious results. From 1963 to 1966 he was a post-graduate student at Imperial College of Science & Technology, University of London, where he received Diploma of Imperial College (DIC) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering for researching in the design of impulse commutated thyristor inverters for ac variable-speed drives.

From 1966 to 1970 he was a Lecturer at Kingston Polytechnic (now Kingston University), UK. From 1970 to 1996 he was a Senior Lecturer at University of Northumbria, UK. He worked with Industrial Instruments Ltd, Bromley, Kent, UK during 1966 on variable-speed ac machine drives; with Thermal Electronics Ltd, Wimbledon, Surrey, during 1969, on thyristor inverters for induction heating; and with Lucas Research Center, Solihull, UK during 1978 – ’83 on simulation of power electronic equipment. In 1972 he participated in an Anglo-American Teachers’ Exchange scheme and taught at State University of New York for a year.

In 1998 he transferred his residency to the United State of America, and worked with the Aerospace Sector of Honeywell for seven and half years as Senior Software Engineer for real-time systems. He now holds a US green card, and is a permanent resident of the US.

His fields of interest are real-time computer control, electrical power systems, power electronics, control engineering, electrical machines, systems simulation, and optimization. He is an author of many technical publications, and is a Chartered Engineer and a corporate member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, UK. He also holds a Six Sigma Green Belt Certification (USA), and an ardent practitioner of Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) principles.