Taan ElAli

Title
Professor and Program Coordinator
Email
Department
School of Engineering
College
College of Aviation

Areas of Expertise

Dynamic Systems, Control Systems, Signal Processing, Engineering Education, Assessment and Accreditation

Taan ElAli

Dr. Taan ElAli is a tenured full professor of electrical engineering and the coordinator of the engineering program in the College of Aviation at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU). Prior to joining ERAU, he served on expatriate sabbatical as the Chair and founding member of the electrical engineering department at King Faisal University (KFU). At KFU, he also chaired the curriculum committee and served as the director of the quality assurance office for the College of Engineering, and created the academic quality assurance plan, 640 pages, endorsed by the Ministry of Higher Education.  

With over 30 years of experience in academia, Dr. ElAli has made significant contributions in the areas of teaching, curriculum development, assessment, accreditation, engineering education, and research. He discovered a new approach to dynamic system identification. He is the author and co-author of thirteen books and textbooks in electrical engineering and engineering education and has contributed numerous papers and conference presentations in the areas of dynamic systems and signal processing.  

In his efforts to revolutionize engineering education, Dr. ElAli developed an innovative approach to electrical engineering education, which led to the restructuring of a major course in the engineering curriculum and thus to the restructuring of the corresponding textbooks. From this work, two textbooks have been published authored by Dr. ElAli: "Continuous Signals and Systems with MATLAB and Discrete Systems" and "Digital Signal Processing with MATLAB", with the third edition of these textbooks released in 2021. Universities like Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Texas at San Antonio, The University of Georgia, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, and New Mexico State University have come onboard to use these textbooks.  

Dr. ElAli has contributed chapters to the well-known "The Engineering Handbook" by CRC press, and "The Electrical Engineering Handbook", by Francis and Taylor Press.  

Dr. ElAli is a Fulbright Scholar and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), an honor attained by fewer than eight percent of IEEE's more than 400,000 members and is conferred only on those who have outstanding research achievements and who have performed great service to the scientific community.

  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, University of Dayton
  • M.S. - Master of Science in Applied Mathematics, University of Dayton
  • M.S. - Master of Science in Systems Engineering, Wright State University
  • B.S. - Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University
  • ENGR 330: Signals & Systems
  • ENGR 331: Signals & Systems Laboratory
  • ENGR 450: Systems and Controls
Dr. ElAli is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a rare honor attained by fewer than eight percent of IEEE members and is conferred only on those who have outstanding research achievements and who have performed great service to the scientific community.
Dr. ElAli is a Fulbright Scholar