Zivan Zabar
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Phone: (718) 260-3495
- Email: zzabar@duke.poly.edu
- Location: LC 203
Courses Taught
EE 3824 Electric Energy Conversion Systems Download Lab Manual for EE3824 EE 4123 Design Project I in Power EE 4223 Design Project II in Power EL 5613 Introduction to Electric Power Systems EL 5673 Electronic Power Supplies EL 5683 Electric Drives Characteristics and Controls EL 6603 Power Electronics EL 6623 Power Systems Economics and Planning EL 6633 Transients, Surges and Faults in Power Systems EL 6643 Relay Fault Protection EL 6653 Power System Stability EL 6663 Distributed Generation Systems EL 6683 Adjustable Speed Drives EL 9623 Electric Power System Analysis and Design EL 9643 Finite Elements for Electricall Power Engineering EL 9613-9693 Selected Topics in Power Engineering
Research Interests
Exploratory research on novel schemes for electromagnetic launchers
Analysis and development of an area substation load model to include the effect of harmonics
Study, design and construction of a battery chargerBiography
Zivan Zabar is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY. He received his Ph.D. from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1972. His areas of interest are electric power systems, electric drives, and power electronics. He served as the Head of ECE Department at Poly for three years (1995 to 1998). Since 1979, he has continuous research support from the two electric utilities in the Metropolitan area, Consolidated Edison and Keyspan Energy. He has six patents and more than 50 papers published in technical journals. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of Sigma Xi.