عبدالحليم عبدالعزيز مازى

Personal Information

Date of Birth : 16 March, 1953 Married

§     Nationality: Saudi

§     Address: P.O.Box 56913

§     Riyadh, 11564, Saudi Arabia

§     Home: +96614500722

§     Mobile: +9665056485756

§     Email: amazi@al-mazi.com,

§     Alternative email: amazi@ksu.edu.sa:

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Education

December 1982,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,N.Y.

Ph.D Electric Power Engineering

Dissertation Title: “ Corrective Control of Flow in a Power System by Line And Bus-Bar  Switching. “

November, 1978,University of Wisconsin- Madison ,Madison,W.I

M.S. Electrical Engineering

Project Title : “ A Load Flow Program with  Automatic Tap-changing for use  in Power System  Courses. “

June , 1976, Riyadh University  ,Riyadh, S.A.                 

B.S. Electrical Engineering                                

Project Title : “ Symmetrical Component Bridge to Measure Positive and Negative Sequence Voltage. Current and Power. “

Current Position:

Director, Research Center at Ministry of Higher Education, Saudi Arabia.

On secondment from King Saud University. Since ( 03/09/2002 )

§     Office: +96612120797

§     Fax: +96612120789

Academic  Positions

Associate Professor , ( 21/12/1987 - To – Date)

              Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering ,King Saud    University, Riyadh , Saudi Arabia

Assistant Professor , ( 09/01/1983  - To – 20/12/1987)

              Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering , King Saud    University, Riyadh , Saudi Arabia

Teaching Assistant , ( 14/07/1976 - To – 29/05/1977 )

              Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering , King Saud    University, Riyadh , Saudi Arabia

Positions Held  

09/01/1983   – To- Date                  King Saud University                        Riyadh, S.A.

Faculty Member

§          Teaching- Undergraduate and graduate courses in electrical engineering department.

§          Student academic advisement

§          Curricula development for electric power engineering courses.

§          Supervision  of  senior student projects in E.E. Department.

23/05/1993 – To- 31/12/1995          King Saud University   Riyadh, S.A.

Dean of Admissions and Registration

§          Handling all student academic affairs from date of admission to graduation from the university.

§          Supervising and managing Academic Information System ( AIS).

§          Planning for each academic year ( Scheduling, Registration Examination, and  Graduation ).

§          Supervising and managing  student’s  monthly  allowances .

29/09/1991 – To- 27/10/1993.             King Saud University      Riyadh, S.A.

Director General ,  Computer and Information Systems.

§          Managing and Supervising operation and development of hardware, network , software and applications for both academic as well administrative departments in the university.

§          Hiring personnel  and  staff for the operation of the computer center.

§          Maintaining and developing applications running under the main-frame system.

§          Surfing as service provider for the Gulf-net to the academic community in the Centeral Province.

28/11/1984 – To- 09/06/1990          King Saud University   Riyadh, S.A.

Vice Dean of Admissions and Registration – Technical Affiars

§          Handling The technical supervision of developing the Academic Information System in  for the main campus as well as all other campuses.

§          Assisting the dean of admissions and registration

26/09/19984 – To- 09/01/1985      King Saud University     Riyadh, S.A.

Coordinator of the specialized power group in the EE depertment

§          Heading the academic group specialized in the Power systems, at the EE department , College of Engineering,

04/02/19984 – To- 08/01/19985      King Saud University   Riyadh, S.A.

Director of Computer Center at College of Engineering

§          Supervising the operation development and student computing services  at college of engineering

04/02/19984 – To- 08/01/19985      King Saud University   Riyadh, S.A.

Vice Chirman of Examination Committee  at Faculty of Engneering

§          Assisting the Chairman in exam scheduling and supervision and control.

04/02/19984 – To- 08/01/19985      King Saud University   Riyadh, S.A.

Secretary  of Electrical Engineering Department

§          Assisting the head of electrical engineering department , College of Engineering, King Saud University

CONSULTANTNCY:

03/09/2002 – To- Date       Ministry of Higher Education    Riyadh, S.A.

Full Time Consultant, Director of the Research Center.

24/09/2000 – To- 02/09/2002  Ministry of Higher Education, Riyadh, S.A.

Full Time Consultant, at the Research Center.

14/10/1994 – To- 22/08/1990  Ministry of Finance and National Economy, Riyadh, S.A.

Part Time Consultant  to H.E. the Minister of Finance and National Economy.

24/04/1994 – To- 19/05/1995  Al-Shora Council, Riyadh, S.A.

Head of the IT Task force for Al-Shora Council

20/04/1993 – To- 10/05/1994  Pension fund, Riyadh, S.A.

Member of the IT consultants to the Pension Fund Departement.

18/02/1992 – To24/06/1998  Girls Education, Riyadh, S.A.

Head of the IT Task force from College of Computer Since to the Presidency of Girls Education

Experiences

A :  In the Area of Information SYSTEMS

Academic Information systems (AIS):

• Evolved (for almost ten years)  in the  selection , development, setup, testing  , training  and operation of the Academic Information system at King Saud University . Serving the main Campus in Riyadh and several campuses. System covers the admissions , registration, student records, course catalogue, course scheduling , grading, graduation, advisement,  and students stipend.

• The experience at  King Saud University  in the Academic Information Systems  led to extend this technical  and professional experience to several other institutions , such as the Presidency of Girls Education , King Khalid University, Imam Mohammed Bin Saud University

Health Information systems (HIS):

• In Charge of  implementation of the Health Information systems (HIS)  at King Khalid University Hospital. A sponsored  project by the Saudi-American joint economic commission. The developed system is still in operation at King Khalid  University Hospital. System covers  patient records, appointments, pharmacy , labs, nurse and staff schedules , outpatient clinical appointments and  inpatient administrations .

Human Resources Information systems(HRIS)

• In Charge of  implementation of the Human resources Information systems (HIS)  at King Saud University . A  migration from a legacy system to an advanced relational database system , handling all aspects of  administration of faculty members and university staff.

Data migration  conversion and virevication

• ivolved in  the supervision of data migrations verification and validation and integrity checks from various systems.

security aspects and control of use and access by users to the  resources and databases.

• involved in designing and supervising, implementations of campus wide security system to all applications to ensure data integrity  and authentication of all sensitive operations in data manipulation and use . Also in auditing the different transactions done by users of different systems.

B :  In the Area of HiGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT.

Involved in  putting the bylaws of the study system in the universities, thought the council of higher education.

• involved in setting up  the National Center for Assessment. This is a center offers and conduct aptitude and achievements test used for entrance to the universities.
• Participated in setting up the network of community colleges in the kingdom .  Community colleges which offers programs to  graduate students in various middleclass professional degrees in various fields and disciplines.
• Participated within a team effort in preparation in the on going project of developing the strategic future plan in the higher education.
• Involved in the planning and study of  establishing new  public universities in the Kingdom ( 11 universities in various parts of the Kingdom).
• Participated within a team effort in the project of merging  (102 Girls colleges)  to the universities. These colleges used to be under the supervision of Ministry of Education.
• Participated within a team effort in merging  (18 teachers colleges)  to the universities. These colleges used to be under the supervision of Ministry of Education.
• Participated within a team effort in setting up the National Statistical Center for higher education.
• Participated within a team effort in setting up the Geographical Information system for higher education.
• Participated within a team effort in setting up the Center for distance and e-learning in the higher education.
• Participated within a team effort in the planning and preparing detailed studies for the establishment of  new universities in the Kingdom. The  team effort resulted in the establishment of 9 new universities over a period of four years.
• Participated within a team effort to establish the National Center for assessment and  accreditation of the higher education institutions in Saudi Arabia.

committies (partial list)

• Member of the University committee for the appointment of  assistant teaching staff.
• Member of the University committee for the IT development.
• Head of the Y2K committee at King Saud University.
• Head of the  Emergency Task force for the Y2K committee.
• Member of the higher education council  for the academic laws and bylaws.

Conferences and seminars

Attended several national and International seminars  and conferences  in the fields of :

• Electric Power Engineering.
• ICT.
• Distance Learning and teaching.
• Higher Education planning .
• Higher Education enhancements.
• Enhancing the quality of teaching and learning.

Other

• I was the General Manager for (NIS) National Information Systems for one year (1990) an IT company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• Co-Authored Three Text books  for the secondary school.
• I was member of the Steering committee  for AL-FAISAL University, a private university in Saudi Arabia.
• Supervised  14 senior graduation projects and master  thesis.
• Taught several undergraduate and graduate courses
• Authored and Co-authored more than 15 Arabic papers.

Publications (English Articles Only)

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A. A. MAZI, B. F. WOLLENBERG, M. H. HESSE,"CORRECTIVE CONTROL OF FLOWS BY LINE AND BUSBAR SWITCHING" IEEE, TRAN. OF POWER SYSTEMS. VOL. PWRS1, NO. 2 , AUG. 1986, PP 258265.

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Z. ELRAZAZ, A.A. MAZI, N. ALMARZOOQ, "AUTOMATIC CONTINGENCY ANALYSIS CARRIED  WITH  PASSIVE CORRECTIVE  MEASURE FOR  ALLEVIATION OF OVER LOADS IN NEWLY DEVELOPED POWER SYSTEM" , IASTED, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, HIGH  TECHNOLOGY IN THE POWER INDUSTRY,  AUG. 2022, 1986  PAPER NO. 26186, BOZEMEN, MT, USA,

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N. H. MALIK, A. A. MAZI, 'CAPACITANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR ISOLATED SELF EXCITED INDUCTION GENERATORS.', ACCEPTED AND PRESENTED IN THE 1986 IEEE WINTER MEETING, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 27 FEB. 1986, PAPER NO. 86WM 2190.

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Z.  S.  ELRAZAZ, A. A. MAZI, N. ALMARZOOQ," AUTOMATIC CONTINGENCY  ANALYSIS AND PASSIVE CORRECTIVE CONTROL FOR ALLEVIATING LINE OVER LOADS IN  A  NEWLY  DEVELOPED POWER   SYSTEM ", IASTED, VOLUME  14 , Number 1, 1988, JOURNAL  OF ENGINEERING  SCIENCES.

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N.A. MOHAWES, Z. ELRAZAZ, A.A. MAZI, 'PEAK AND ENERGY FORECASTS FOR THE CENTRL PROVINCE OF SAUDI ARABIA". PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST SYMPOSIUM  ON  ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS IN  FAST DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, KING SAUD UNIVERSITY, RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA, MARCH 2124, 1987, PP 310314.

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Z. ELRAZAZ,  N. ALMOHAWES, A.A. MAZI, "FORECASTING CHALLENGES IN FAST DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A CASE STUDY OF SAUDI ARABIA SOUTHERN REGION". PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS IN FAST DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, KING SAUDI UNIVERSITY, RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA, MARCH 2124, 1987, PP 462466.

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Z.  ELRAZAZ, A.A. MAZI, M.A. AQEL, "UNIFIED WEEKLY PEAK LOAD FORECASTING FOR FAST GROWING POWER SYSTEM" PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS IN FAST DEVELPING COUNTRIES, KING SAUDI UNIVERSITY, RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA, MARCH 2124, 1987, PP 137143.

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A.A. MAZI, "AN IMPROVED ALGORITHM OF BEWELY'S LATTICE DIAGRAM METHOD FOR THE SOLUTION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSIENTS". PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS IN FAST DEVELOPING COUNTRIES,KING SAUD UNIVERSITY, RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA, MARCH 2124, 1987, PP 491494.

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Z. ELRAZAZ, N.A. ALMOHAWES, A .A.  MAZI, "LOAD DURATION FORECASTING    USING TIME SERIES     APPROACH". ELECTRIC   MACHINES AND SYSTEMS, 1988, PP 397410.

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Z.S. ELRAZAZ, A.A. MAZI, "UNIFIED WEEKLY PEAK LOAD FORECASTING FOR FAST GROWING POWER SYSTEM", IEE PROCEEDINGS VOL. 136, PART C, NO. 1, JANUARY 1989, PP 2934.

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M. A. Mozan , M. A. El-Kady and A.A. Mazi , “Advanced Thermal Analysis of Underground Power Cables”, The Fifth International Middle East Power Conference, MEPCON ’97. 4-6 January , 1997. Alexandria , Egypt. (PP 506-510) Conference Proceeding , Volume II.

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A.A. Mazi  and M. A. El-Kady , “Large-Scale Thermal Analysis of Underground Power Cables”, The second  regional Conference of CIGRE Committees in Arab Countries, Amman , Jordan , May 12-14 , 1997.