Dr. Siamak Farshad

  University: Iran University of Science and Technology

  Faculty: Railway Engineering

  Department: Electrified Railway

  Phone: 0098 21 77491029-30

  Email: farshad@iust.ac.ir

  Educational Qualification:

  PhD in Electrification and Automation of railway Eng., Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, 1996 – 2000

  M.Sc in Electrical Eng. (Power), Iran University of Science & Technology, 1987 – 1989

  B.Sc in Electrical Eng. (Power), Iran University of Science & Technology, 1983 – 1987

  Work Experience:

  1989-1996 Lecturer at Electrical Eng. Dep. Iran Univ. of science and technology

  Since 2000 Assistant professor at Railway Engineering School, Iran University of Science & Technology

  Teaching Experiences

  M.SC courses:

  Electrification of Railway, Overhead supply system design, Traction substation design, Traction motor (Performance, control and design) , Power Quality

  B.SC courses:

  Design of Locomotive propulsion system, Fundamental of Electrification of Railway,

  Electrical machine I, II, III (Performance, control and design)

  Research Projects

  - Team leader and lead author , "Value engineering study of signaling system in south-east region of I.R.I. railway ”, sponsored and implemented by I.R.I. Railway Co. 2010 ongoing

  - Team leader and lead author, "Study of economical and technical comparison of Tehran’s transportation system, ”, sponsored and implemented by Iran environment protection Org. 2001-2003

  - Team leader and lead author , "Design and development of a hybrid electric minibus ”, sponsored and implemented by Iran Industrial developing Co.,2001-2003

  - Team leader and lead author , " Economic and technical study of electrification of railway in Iran ”, sponsored and implemented by I.R.I. Railway Co., 2003-2005

  - Team leader and lead author , " Optimal design of squirrel cage asynchronous three phase electrical machine ”, sponsored and implemented by Iran Industrial developing Co. 1993-1995

  - Team member , "Design of squirrel cage asynchronous three phase electrical machine ”, sponsored and implemented by Iran University of Science and Technology Jahad daneshgahi. , 1985-1987

  - Team member , " Optimal load flow in Kermanshah (Iran) power system ”, West regional electric utility system , 1991-1992

  Research Interest:

  Traction motor

  Traction Drive

  Supply system of electric railway (AC and DC)

  Propulsion system of electric trains

  Publication:

  Journal Articles

 1- S.Farshad, Hao Rongtai, “Fundamental research of a novel 3/1 phase converter for electrified railroad” Journal of Northern Jiaotong university, Vol. 23, No 1 Feb 1999 pp 99-104

 2- Zeng guohong, S.Farshad, Hao Rongtai, “A novel traction power supply system based on 3/1 phase balanced power converter” Electric drive for locomotive magazine, Zhuzhou electric locomotive research institute, China , No 3 May 1999 pp 14-18

 3- S.Farshad, A.R.Moniri, 'Modeling the frequency response movements in power transformers for predicting purposes', Iranian Journal Of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Vol.2, No.1, Jan 2006, pp.26-33, ISSN: 1735-2827

 4- S.Farshad, B.Ebrahimi, E.Khavandkar, (Winter 2008), ‘The new method of value engineering and TRIZ: efficacious strategy for costs reduction of missive construction projects’, Iranian journal of engineering education; academy of science of Iran, Vol.9, No.36, pp.59-79, ISSN: 1607-2316.

5- M. Kalantari, M. J. Sadeghi , S. S. Fazel , S. Farshad , “ Investigation of Power Factor Behavior in AC Railway System Based on Special Traction Transformers ,” Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications (JEMAA), 2010. (Abstract)

 6- M. Kalantari, M. J. Sadeghi, S. Farshad , S. S. Fazel , “ Modeling and Comparison of Traction Transformers Based on the Utilization Factor Definitions ,” International Review on Modeling and Simulation (IREMOS), vol. 4, no. 1 , pp. 342-351 , Feb. 2011. (Abstract)

  Conference Papers

  1- S.Farshad, Hao Rongtai,” Fundamental research of a novel 3/1 phase converter for electrified railroad ” 1998 International conference on power electronics, Seol, Korea pp. 955-960

  2- S.Farshad, Zeng guohong, Hao Rongtai, “3/1-phase converter for electrified railroad Base on New cascade active filters” The 5^th Brazilian power electronic conferences, Brazil, September 1999

  3- S.Farshad, Hao Rongtai, “Compensation of negative sequence, harmonics and reactive currents is electric rail road supply systems” The forth international on railroad transportation 1998, Tehran university, Tehran, Iran.

  4- Zeng guohong, S.Farshad, Hao Rongtai, “Control Strategy of an Active Power Filter Based 3/1 Balanced Converter for Railway Traction System” The 7^th Iranian conference on electrical engineering, Tehran 1999, pp. 55-61

  5- S.Farshad, Zeng guohong, Hao Rongtai “Design and performance of the PWM converters based on the quasi-triangular switching strategy” Third International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference. (IPEMC’2000 Aug. 15-18,2000, Tsinhua university, Beijing China)

  6- S.Farshad, Zeng guohong, Hao Rongtai “A novel 3/1 phase converter for high speed -electrified railway” International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Studies (ICTTS’2000 August 2000, Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing, China)

  7- S.Farshad, E.Khavandkar, A.Abiarii, (20-21 June 2006), ‘Investigation challenges of productivity culture improvement among Iran’s railway organization personnel and betterment so lotions’, Proceeding of the 6th productivity Conference, Tehran, Iran.

  8- S.Farshad, S.Jahanaian, B.Ebrahimi, E.Khavandkar, (20-21 February 2006), ‘Modeling urban planning based on information and communication technology’, Proceeding of the Second International Information and Communication Technology Management Conference (ICTM2006), Tehran, Iran.

  9- S.Farshad, E.Khavandkar, B.Ebrahimi, M.Khajeafzali, (21-22 November 2005), ‘Combinative models of value engineering and TRIZ’, Proceeding of the 2nd Value Engineering Conference, Tehran, Iran.

  10- S.Farshad, B.Ebrahimi, E.Khavandkar, (7 March 2005), ‘Strategy making for e-cities based on ICT’, Proceeding of 7th Industrial Engineering Students Conference, Tehran, Iran.

  11- S.Farshad, E.Khavandkar, B.Ebrahimi, (16-17May 2004), ‘Concurrent models of information and communication technology in strategic planning of e-cities’, Proceeding of 6th Computer Engineering Students Conference, Tehran, Iran.

  12- H.Sadrian, S. Farshad ‘Practical design of digital PFC in single phase UPS by DSP ‘ 22th Electrical engineering conference, Iran, Tehran, Oct. 2006 (In Persian)

  13- H.Sadrian, S. Farshad ‘Practical design of digital inverter in single phase UPS by DSP ‘ 22th Electrical engineering conference, Iran, Tehran, Oct. 2006 (In Persian)

  14-A. Ebrahimi, M.A.Sandidzade, S. Farshad ‘Fuzzy Logic Control of Regenerative Braking in DC Electrical Railway’ first symposium of intelligent and ‘ Sep. 2006, Iran, Mashhad

  15-S. Farshad, A.R. Moniri Hamedani, ‘FRA in scada ststem of modern traction substatio’ 8^th rail way transportation Conference, 2006 Iran, Tehran

  16- S.Farshad, S.R. Razavi ‘Loss les resistor in traction drive of electric trains’ 10^th rail way transportation Conference, 2006 Iran, Tehran

  17- M.Jafari , S.Farshad “ Neural network in measuring and assessment of slip of wheel and rail” third student rail way transportation Conference, 2007 Iran, Tehran

  18- A.Anvari, S.Farshad ‘Heat analysis of three phase asynchronous motors and comparison with test result’ 16^th International Electrical Engineering Conference, Iran Tehran 2002

  Books

  S. Farshad ‘Rewinding Of electric machine technology , I.R.I Teaching and Training ministry 1995