• Instructional Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
  • Assistant Director, Industrial Training and Assessment Center (ITAC)
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Mahmoud Abido

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California Merced — 2024
  • M.Sc., Aerospace Engineering, Cairo University — 2020
  • B.Sc., Aerospace Engineering, Cairo University — 2014

Research Interests

    • Energy storage
    • Renewable energy
    • Electricity grid modeling
    • Solar thermal
    • Decarbonization

Selected Publications

  • M. Abido, B. Widyolar, Y. Bhusal, J. Brinkley, R. Winston, S. Kurtz, “Full Year Performance Analysis and Steady State Operation Model for a Stationary Solar Thermal Collector with a Horizontal Aperture for Steam Generation”, Solar Energy, 2024
  • M. Abido, Z. Mahmud, P. Sanchez, and S. Kurtz, “Seasonal Challenges for a California renewable-energy-driven grid” iScience, 2022
  • M. Abido, and S. Kurtz, “Optimal Strategy for Using Biomass to Enable California High Penetration Solar” 49th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2022
  • M. Abido, K. Shiraishi, P. Sanchez, R. Jones, Z. Mahmud, S. Castellanos, N. Kittner, D. Kammen, and S. Kurtz, “Seasonal Challenges for a Zero-Carbon Grid in California” 48th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2021
  • Z. Mahmoud, K. Shiraishi, M. Abido, P. Sanchez, and S. Kurtz, “Hierarchical approach to analyzing the effects of generation profiles on energy storage requirements”, iScience 2023
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