Muhammad H. Rashid is employed by the University of West Florida as Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Previously, he was employed by the University of Florida as Professor and Director of UF/UWF Joint Program. Rashid received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Birmingham in UK. Previously, he worked as Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of the Engineering Department at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne. He also worked as Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Connecticut, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University Calumet, and Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Saudi Arabia). He has been employed as a design and development engineer with Brush Electrical Machines Ltd. (England, UK), as a research engineer with Lucas Group Research Centre (England, UK), and as a lecturer and head of Control Engineering Department at the Higher Institute of Electronics (in Libya and Malta).
Dr. Rashid is actively involved in teaching, researching, and lecturing in electronics, power electronics, and professional ethics. He has published 17 books listed in the US Library of Congress and more than 160 technical papers. His books are adopted as textbooks all over the world. His book Power Electronics has translations in Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Korean, Italian, Chinese, and Persian, and also the Indian economy edition. His book Microelectronics has translations in Spanish in Mexico and in Spain, Italian, and Chinese.
He has received many invitations from foreign governments and agencies to give keynote lectures and consult, from foreign universities to serve as an external examiner for undergraduate, master's, and Ph.D. examinations, from funding agencies to review research proposals, and from U.S. and foreign universities to evaluate promotion cases for professorship. Dr. Rashid has worked as a regular employee or consultant in Canada, Korea, United Kingdom, Singapore, Malta, Libya, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Dr. Rashid has traveled to almost all states in USA and to many countries to lecture and present papers (Japan, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Libya, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Malta, Italy, Greece, United Kingdom, Brazil, and Mexico).
He is Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET, UK) and Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, USA). He was elected as an IEEE Fellow with the citation "Leadership in power electronics education and contributions to the analysis and design methodologies of solid-state power converters." Dr. Rashid is the recipient of the 1991 Outstanding Engineer Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He received the 2002 IEEE Educational Activity Award (EAB), Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education with the following citation "for contributions to the design and delivery of continuing education in power electronics and computer-aided simulation." He is the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award with the citation: "For his distinguished leadership and dedication to quality undergraduate electrical engineering education, motivating students and publication of outstanding textbooks."
Dr. Rashid is currently an ABET program evaluator for electrical and computer engineering, and also for (general) engineering program. He is the series editor of
Power Electronics and Applications and
Nanotechnology and Applications with the CRC Press. He se
穆罕默德·H·拉希德（Muhammad H. Rashid）目前在西佛羅里達大學擔任電機與計算機工程教授。此前，他曾在佛羅里達大學擔任教授及UF/UWF聯合項目主任。拉希德在孟加拉國工程技術大學獲得電機工程學士學位，並在英國伯明翰大學獲得碩士及博士學位。他曾在印第安納大學-普渡大學福特韋恩校區擔任電機工程教授及工程系主任。他還曾在康涅狄格大學擔任訪問助理教授，在康考迪亞大學（加拿大蒙特利爾）擔任電機工程副教授，在普渡大學卡盧梅特校區擔任電機工程教授，以及在沙烏地阿拉伯的法赫德石油與礦業大學擔任訪問教授。他曾在英國的Brush Electrical Machines Ltd.擔任設計與開發工程師，在英國的Lucas Group Research Centre擔任研究工程師，以及在利比亞和馬爾他高等電子學院擔任講師及控制工程系主任。
拉希德博士積極參與電子學、電力電子學及專業倫理的教學、研究和講座。他已出版17本書籍，並在美國國會圖書館登記，還發表了超過160篇技術論文。他的書籍在全球範圍內被採用為教科書。他的書籍《電力電子學》已翻譯成西班牙語、葡萄牙語、印尼語、韓語、意大利語、中文和波斯語，並有印度經濟版。他的書籍《微電子學》在墨西哥和西班牙翻譯成西班牙語、意大利語和中文。
他曾多次受到外國政府和機構的邀請，進行主題演講和諮詢，並受到外國大學的邀請擔任本科、碩士和博士考試的外部考官，還受到資助機構的邀請審查研究提案，以及來自美國和外國大學的邀請評估教授晉升案件。拉希德博士曾在加拿大、韓國、英國、新加坡、馬爾他、利比亞、馬來西亞、沙烏地阿拉伯、巴基斯坦和孟加拉國擔任常規員工或顧問。拉希德博士曾前往美國幾乎所有州以及許多國家進行講座和發表論文（日本、中國、香港、印尼、台灣、馬來西亞、泰國、新加坡、印度、巴基斯坦、土耳其、沙烏地阿拉伯、阿聯酋、卡塔爾、利比亞、約旦、埃及、摩洛哥、馬爾他、意大利、希臘、英國、巴西和墨西哥）。
他是英國工程技術學會（IET）的院士，也是美國電氣和電子工程師學會（IEEE）的終身院士。他被選為IEEE院士，獲得的評語是「在電力電子教育方面的領導力及對固態電力轉換器分析和設計方法的貢獻。」拉希德博士是1991年電氣和電子工程師學會傑出工程師獎的獲得者。他於2002年獲得IEEE教育活動獎（EAB），以及持續教育優異成就獎，評語為「對電力電子學和計算機輔助模擬的持續教育設計和提供的貢獻。」他是2008年IEEE本科教學獎的獲得者，評語為：「因其在本科電機工程教育中的卓越領導和對質量的奉獻，激勵學生並出版優秀教科書。」
拉希德博士目前是電機與計算機工程及（一般）工程項目的ABET項目評估員。他是CRC Press的《電力電子學與應用》及《納米技術與應用》系列的編輯。
