Biography
Maziar (Maz) Rastmanesh serves as an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Penn State Berks. Prior to his time at Penn State, he was a faculty member with the Marine Engineering Department of the Nautical Institute Canada. Before that, he was a senior electronics engineer with Adamson Systems, Toronto, leading an engineering team designing switch-mode power supplies and Class D amplifiers for the audio industry.
Prior to his time with Adamson, he was a development engineer with KSR International, Halifax, responsible for testing, reliability, and optimal design, and EMC compliance of electronics for auto industries. He conducted EMC projects for Globe Motor of the U.S., Battery charger and reliability for Maybach and Delphi of Germany and Belgium. He also worked for GE in Canada.
Research Interests
Dr. Rastmanesh's research interests include:
- Energy harvest
- Solar and RF
- Power electronics
- DC-DC converters
- EMI/EMC
- Renewable energy
Publications
Papers Published in Journals
M. Rastmanesh, E. El-Masry and K. El-Sankary, “A Low Power Photo-Voltaic Battery Charger with Improved Reliability and Functionality to Reduce Shading Effect”. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2023.3294178, 11 July 2023.
M. Rastmanesh, E. El-Masry and K. El-Sankary, "An Efficient PV Battery Charger/Harvester for Low Power Applications, Suitable for Heavily Overcast Operations," in IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 3, pp. 290-302, 2022, doi: 10.1109/OJPEL.2022.3174445.
M. Rastmanesh, E. El-Masry, K. El-Sankary, “Recycled and Synchro-Recycled Boost Converter for Photo Voltaic Low Power Harvesting, “J. Low Power Electron, Appl. (ISSN2079-9268), Nov 18, 2020.
Published Conference Papers
Maziar Rastmanesh, “A Novel Double Coupled Inductor Ultra-High Gain Boost Converter for Low-Power Photo-Voltaic”. XV International Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Applications, INDEL 2024, 6-8 November 2024, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nov. 2024.
M. Rastmanesh, E. El-Masry and K. El-Sankary. “An Ultra Gain Coupled-Inductor Boost Converter for Photo-Voltaic Harvesters”, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Energy Technologies for Future Grids, Wollongong, Australia, December 3-6, 2023, Doi:10.1109/ETFG55873.2023.10408182
M. Rastmanesh, Ezz. El-Masry, Sensitivity in Photo-Voltaic Harvesters/Chargers, 2023 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sep 25, 2023, Regina, Saskatchewan., Canada. Doi: 10.1109/CCECE58730.2023.10289017
M. Rastmanesh, E. El-Masry and K. El-Sankary, "A Low Power Photo-Voltaic Battery Charger with Improved Reliability and Energy Recovery to Reduce
Shading Effect," 2022 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/TPEC54980.2022.9750762.
M. Rastmanesh, "A Synchronized Boost Converter for Low Power Photo Voltaic Harvesting with Practical Design Considerations," 2022 12th International Conference on Power, Energy and Electrical Engineering (CPEEE), 2022, pp. 108-112, doi: 10.1109/CPEEE54404.2022.9738668.
M. Rastmanesh, E. El-Masry and K. El-Sankary, Trade-Offs Between Efficiency and Output Voltage of a Single Boost DC-DC Converter for Photo-Voltaic Low Power Harvesting Applications, IEEE IEMCON October 2019.
Maziar Rastmanesh, Ezz El-Masry, A High Efficiency 90-nm CMOSRF to DC rectifier, Midwest Symposium on Circuit and System, IEEE, August 2013.
Published Books
High Efficiency RF to DC Converter with Reduced Leakage Current, Maziar Rastmanesh, Lambert Academic Publishing, Aug 2013.
Education
- Ph.D., Power Electronics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
- M.S., RF Electronics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
- B.S., Engineering Electronics