Stimate Domnule
Profesor Alessandro Ferrero,
Stimaţi membri ai Senatului
Universităţii POLITEHNICA
din Bucureşti,
Most esteemed
Professor Alessandro Ferrero,
Esteemed members of the
University POLITEHNICA
of Bucharest Senate,
Distinşi Oaspeţi,
High distinguished Guests,
Doamnelor şi Domnilor,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Avem deosebita plăcere să vă
prezentăm, cu această ocazie
festivă, câteva aspecte din
cariera şi activitatea domnului
Alessandro Ferrero, profesor
de Măsurări electrice şi
electronice la Politecnico di
Milano, Italia, personalitate
academică
şi
ştiinţifică
recunoscută pe plan internaţional,
căruia
Senatul
Universităţii POLITEHNICA
din Bucureşti a decis, în
unanimitate, să-i confere titlul
de Doctor Honorius Causa.
We have the honor to present
Alessandro Ferrero a obţinut
titlul de doctor în inginerie
Alessandro Ferrero received
his Laurea degree in Electrical
you in brief, at this ceremony,
the
career
and
profile
of
Alessandro Ferrero, Professor
of Electrical and Electronic
Measurement (since 1994) at
Politecnico di Milano, Italy,
worldwide
academic
and
scientific personality, to whom
the Senate of the University
POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
has unanimously decided to
award the Doctor Honorius
Causa title.
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electrică la Politecnico di
Milano în 1978, cu cea mai
înaltă distincţie, cu o teză
despre
proiectarea
unui
wattmetru digital pe baza unei
strategii noi de eşantionare cu
pas variabil. Şi-a început
activitatea profesională ca
inginer proiectant la Landis
&Gyr – Daco System Division Italy (1980 – 1983), fiind
responsabil
de
realizarea
primei protecţii numerice de
distanţă din Italia. Parcursul
academic
a
început
la
Politecnico di Milano (între
1983 şi 1987) ca asistent
universitar, a continuat ca
profesor asociat la Universitatea Catania (1987-1991),
apoi conferenţiar (1991-1994) şi
profesor
(din
1994)
la
Politecnico di Milano.
Engineering from Politecnico
di Milano in 1978, with a
graduation mark of 100/100,
with a thesis about the design
of a fully digital wattmeter,
based on a simple, innovative,
variable
time
sampling
strategy. He started his
professional activity by Landis
&Gyr – Daco System Division Italy (1980 – 1983), being
responsible for designing the
first Italian digital distance
relay. Then entered the
academic world, as Assistant
Professor at Politecnico di
Milano from 1983 to 1987,
Associate Professor at the
University of Catania, Catania,
Italy, from 1987 to 1991,
Associate Professor (from 1991
to 1994) and Professor at
Politecnico di Milano.
Principalul domeniu de cercetare îl constituie aplicarea
tehnicilor de prelucrare a
semnalelor în instrumentaţie şi
măsurări
electrice.
Astfel,
Profesorul Alessandro Ferrero
a dezvoltat noi metode de
măsurare a componentelor
His main research interests are
in the field of Digital Signal
Processing applied to Electrical
Measurement. In particular,
Prof. Ferrero has worked on
the development of new
methods for measuring electric
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puterii electrice în condiţii de
funcţionare în regim nesinusoidal, cu contribuţii esenţiale
la definirea şi evaluarea
parametrilor de calitate a
energiei electrice, inclusiv prin
identificarea surselor poluante
armonic. Efortul de cercetare a
fost finanţat în mare parte de
Ministerul Italian al Cercetării
şi Industriei. Rezultatele au
fost publicate în peste 200 de
lucrări stiinţifice. De altfel,
Alessandro Ferrero este unul
dintre cei mai citaţi autori în
prestigioasa IEEE Transactions
on
Instrumentation
and
Measurement. Ca o recunoaştere a meritelor stiinţifice,
Alessandro Ferrero a fost
distins în 2006 cu importantul
premiu IEEE Joseph F. Keithley
Technical Field Award şi a fost
ales în 2010 membru al
Academiei Regale de Ştiinţe şi
Artă din Belgia, secţia Ştiinţe
Tehnice. Alessandro Ferrero
este IEEE Fellow încă din 1999,
promovând în permanenţă
activităţile tehnice desfăşurate
sub egida IEEE; din 1999 face
power components under
non-sinusoidal conditions,
assessing
electric
Power
Quality and identifying the
sources injecting disturbances
in the electric system. His
research in this field was
supported and funded by the
Italian Ministry of Research
and industries. Original results
have been published in over
200 scientific papers. He is one
of the most cited authors in the
IEEE
Transactions
on
Instrumentation
and
Measurement. In recognition
of the achieved results he was
awarded with the IEEE Joseph
F. Keithley Technical Field Award
in 2006. Prof. Ferrero is an
IEEE Fellow (1999) and he has
been elected (2010) as a foreign
member of the Royal Flemish
Academy of Belgium for
Science and Arts in the Class
of the Technical Sciences. Prof.
Ferrero was very active in
promoting technical activities,
especially inside the IEEE. He
is a member at large of the
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parte din IEEE Instrumentation
and Measurement Administrative Committee (AdCom).
IEEE Instrumentation and
Measurement Administrative
Committee (AdCom) since
În această perioadă a iniţiat şi
1999.
promovat numeroase activităţi
In this period he has worked
to start and promote activities
in the Measurement field,
paying particular attention to
both the fundamentals of the
Measurement Science and its
applications. He has been a
member of the IMTC (now
I2MTC) Board of Directors that
he chaired from 2003 to 2006.
He was the General Chair of
IMTC in 1999, when IMTC
was organized in Italy for the
first time. He has also been
very active in promoting the
IEEE Publications, and he
served as VP Publications of
the
Instrumentation
and
Measurement Society in 2007,
and as an Associate Editor for
the IEEE Transactions on
Instrumentation
and
Measurement since 2005. He
served as President of the
Instrumentation and Measurement Society from 2008 to 2009.
din
domeniul
măsurărilor,
acordând o atenţie deosebită
atât principiilor fundamentale,
cât şi aplicaţiilor din sfera
instrumentaţiei. A fost ales
membru
al
Comitetului
Director pentru IMTC (acum
I2MTC), conferinţă al cărei
General Chair a fost în 1999. A
fost, de asemenea, activ în
promovarea revistelor IEEE, în
2007 fiind VP Publications of
the
Instrumentation
and
Measurement Society. În 2005
a devenit Editor Asociat al
prestigioasei IEEE Transactions
on
Instrumentation
and
Measurement. Ca o recunoaştere a meritelor sale a fost ales
Preşedinte al IEEE Instrumentation
and
Measurement
Society între 2008 şi 2009.
Ca Editor in Chief al IEEE
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Transactions
on
Instrumen-
As Editor in Chief of the IEEE
Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM)
his efforts have been directed
towards achieving excellence
through quality. TIM is
expected to become the most
desirable publication venue for
papers in the I&M fields and
indeed in 2014 the impact
factor has increased to 1,710.
tation and Measurement a
girat
creşterea
continuă
a
calităţii revistei, astfel încât în
2014 factorul de impact a
devenit 1,710.
Notabilă este implicarea sa
în activităţile educaţionale.
Astfel, în 2008 a iniţiat
International
Measurement
School (IMU), o şcoală de vară
menită să ofere studenţilor
fundamentele ştiinţifice ale
unei instrucţii serioase în sfera
metrologiei şi a modului în
care aceasta se reflectă în
aplicaţiile practice.
Professor Ferrero is also active
in various educational activities.
In 2008 he started the
International
Measurement
School (IMU), a summer school
that is intended to provide
students
with
a
solid
background
about
the
theoretical fundamentals of
measurement science and its
importance
to
practical
applications.
Primele patru ediţii ale IEEE
International
Measurement
University (IMU) au fost
organizate la University of
Trento (2008-2011), unde au
studiat şi absolvit o serie de
cadre didactice, doctoranzi şi
studenţi ai Facultăţii de
Inginerie
Electrică
şi
ai
Facultăţii de Inginerie în Limbi
Străine
ai
Universităţii
Politehnica din Bucureşti. Un
The first four editions of the
IEEE International Measurement
University (IMU) have been
organized at University of
Trento (2008-2011), and have
been attended by several
students and teaching staf
members of UPB – from the
Faculties
of
Electrical
Engineering
and
FILS.
Graduation of IMU is linked
with the attendance and
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ciclu
complet
de
studii
presupune participarea la 3
ediţii consecutive, unul dintre
absolvenţi fiind acum cadru
didactic la Facultatea de
Inginerie
Electrică.
Doi
doctoranzi ai facultăţii au
participat la câte 2 ediţii, iar
alţi 3 doctoranzi (Facultatea de
Inginerie Electrică şi Facultatea
de Electronică) au participat la
câte o ediţie.
Pe
durata
Preşedinte
mandatului
al
IEEE
succesfully passing the final
exams of 3 consecutive
editions. One of the graduates
is now lecturer at UPB, Faculty
of
Electrical
engineering.
Moreover, two PhD students
have succesfully participated
at two IMU editions each,
while other 3 PHD students
(now from the Faculty of
Electrical Engineering and
Faculty of Electronics) have
attended, each of them, one
IMU edition.
de
During his term as President
of the Instrumentation and
Measurement Society Prof.
Ferrero initiated the webbased
Educational
Video
Tutorial System that offers the
IMS members basic and
advanced
tutorials
on
different
topics
of
measurement
fundamentals
and applications, presented by
distinguished experts from
academia,
industry
and
IMS,
profesorul Ferrero a iniţiat un
sistem
de
video
tutoriale
educaţionale, publicate online,
oferind
gratuit
membrilor
IEEE IMS accesul la informaţie
dedicată subiectelor din sfera
fundamentelor ştiinţei măsurării, a aplicaţiilor acesteia în
medicină,
aeronautică,
energetică etc., tutorialele fiind
realizate de experţi pe plan
mondial din mediul academic
graduate schools.
şi industrie.
The scientific results achieved
Rezultatele
ştiinţifice
ale
Profesorului
Alessandro
Ferrero au fost publicate în
by
Alessandro
Ferrero
are
reported in more than 200
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peste
200
de
lucrări,
majoritatea
în
cele
mai
prestigioase reviste ştiinţifice,
magazine sau volume ale unor
conferinţe relevante pentru
domeniul instrumentaţiei şi al
măsurărilor. Dintre acestea,
peste 120 au fost publicate în
reviste
indexate
ISI;
recunoaşterea internaţională a
activităţii este certificată şi de
faptul că Profesorul Ferrero
are asociat un indice Hirsch
h-index 21 (SCOPUS), ceea ce
îl plasează pe unul dintre
primele
locuri
ale
clasamentului cercetătorilor cei
mai
citaţi
în
domeniul
instrumentaţiei şi măsurărilor.
papers he has authored or co-
Alessandro
Ferrero
este
coautor la mai multe cărţi de
mare succes, precum: “Digital
Signal
Processing
for
Measurement Systems -Theory
and Applications”, publicată
în 2006 de Editura Springer în
seria: Information Technology:
Transmission, Processing and
Storage; la aceeaşi editură este
coautor
al
cărţii
(2013):
Alessandro Ferrero, Marco
Prioli, Simona Salicone, and
Barbara
Vantaggi,
2d
probability-possibility trans-
Alessandro Ferrero is also the
co-author of the book: “Digital
Signal
Processing
for
Measurement Systems -Theory
and Applications”, published
by Springer in its series:
Information
Technology:
Transmission, Processing and
Storage, in 2006. Also in
Springer
he
co-authored
(2013): Alessandro Ferrero,
Marco Prioli, Simona Salicone,
and Barbara Vantaggi. 2d
probability-possibility trans-
authored, and published in the
most qualified international
scientific journals and in the
proceedings of international
conferences in the field of
instrumentation and measurement. 123 papers have been
published, up to date, in ISI
journals. Alessandro Ferrero
has
an
h-index
of
21
(according to SCOPUS), which
ranks him among the presently
most cited scientists in the
I&M field.
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formations. In Synergies of
Soft Computing and Statistics
for Intelligent Data Analysis,
pages 63-72.
formations. In Synergies of
Soft Computing and Statistics
for Intelligent Data Analysis,
pages 63-72.
Domnul profesor Alessandro
Ferrero a vizitat pentru prima
dată Facultatea de Inginerie
Electrică în anul 2009, cu
ocazia organizării - împreună
cu cadre didactice de la această
facultate – a evenimentului
ştiinţific IEEE International
Workshop
on
Advanced
Methods for Uncertainty Estimation Measurement (AMUEM
2009).
Professor Alessandro Ferrero
has visited for the first time
our university and the Faculty
of Electrical Engineering in
2009, with the occasion of the
first edition in Romania of the
IEEE International Workshop
on Advanced Methods for
Uncertainty
Estimation
Measurement, hosted by UPB.
The link with the UPB staff and
students can be excellently
highlighted by one of the first
bilateral projects Romania-Italy:
Tele-presence in education: A
virtual laboratory for instrumentation in power systems, grant
#23 of the Bilateral Co-operation
Romania-Italy 2001-2004. During
this project, in February 2002 it
was organized a webcast
illustrating the functionalities of
virtual laboratories. Within this
first on its kind online events,
real time information has been
acquired from the measurement
systems in Politecnico di Milano
Legătura
cu
UPB
s-a
concretizat şi prin desfăşurarea
proiectului
bilateral
Telepresence in education: A virtual
laboratory for instrumentation in
power systems, grant #23 în
cadrul Bilateral Co-operation
Romania-Italy 2001-2004. Pe
parcursul derulării acestui
proiect, în anul 2002 s-a
organizat un webcast dedicat
laboratoarelor
virtuale
în
cadrul căruia, pentru prima
dată într-un astfel de context,
s-au preluat în timp real
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informaţiile de măsurare şi sau calculat descriptorii de
calitate a energiei pe baza
sistemelor de achiziţii de date
instalate în laboratoarele din
Politecnico di Milano.
and power quality indices have
been evaluated on the servers in
UPB – MicroDERLab laboratory.
The event has been live,
attended by more than 20
members of the UPB teaching
staff and students.
Premii şi distincţii / Honors and Awards
1986 – Angelo Barbagelata Award, rewarding the best paper
published in the previous year in “L’Elettrotecnica” journal, that
was the official journal of AEI, the former name of the Italian
Association of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
1993 – Damien Burin Award, rewarding the best paper in the
Proceedings of the IMEKO TC-4 6-th International Symposium on
"Intelligent Instrumentation for Remote and On-Site Measurements", Bruxelles, Belgium, May 12-13, 1993.
2006 – IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Technical Field Award in
Instrumentation and Measurement, with the motivation: “For
advancing the measurement of electrical quantities in electric
power systems under non-sinusoidal conditions."
2011 – Outstanding Associate Editor Recognition from the IEEE
Instrumentation and Measurement Society
Professional service - IEEE:
Committees/Boards:
TAB, 2008-2009
IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award Committee (2008-2009; Member)
IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award Committee (2010-present;
Chair)
Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation
and Measurement (2005-present; since 2013 – Editor in Chief)
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Sections/Chapters: North Italy IMS Chapter, Chair, 1999-2001
Society: Instrumentation and Measurement Society
2000 to 2007 - AdCom member at large
2007 - VP Publications
2008-2009 - President
2010-2011 - Junior Past President
Conferences:
IMTC 1999, General Chair
2003 to 2006 - Chair of the IMTC Board of Directors
Other:
2008: Created the IMS Web Tutorial program
2008 to Present: Founding chair of International Measurement
University (IMU), the IMS summer school on Instrumentation
and Measurement for PhD students and young engineers
Articole reprezentative / Representative Journal Publications
(ordered from the most cited)
Papers related to measurements on electric power systems and
power quality measurements:
A new approach to the definition of power components in 3phase systems under nonsinusoidal conditions
Author(s): Ferrero A; Supertifurga G
Source: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and
Measurement Volume: 40 Issue: 3 Pages: 568-577 DOI:
10.1109/19.87021 Published: Jun 1991
Times Cited: 92 (from Web of Science)
A distributed system for electric power quality measurement
Author(s): Cristaldi L; Ferrero A; Salicone S
Source: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and
Measurement Volume: 51 Issue: 4 Pages: 776-781 DOI:
10.1109/TIM.2002.803300 Published: Aug 2002
Times Cited: 58 (from Web of Science)
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A Fuzzy-Set approach to fault-type identification in digital
relaying
Author(s): Ferrero A; Sangiovanni S; Zappitelli E
Source: IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery Volume: 10
Issue: 1 Pages: 169-175 DOI: 10.1109/61.368401 Published: Jan
1995
Times Cited: 56 (from Web of Science)
Definitions of electrical quantities commonly used in nonsinusoidal conditions
Author(s): Ferrero A
Source: European Transactions on Electrical Power Volume: 8
Issue: 4 Pages: 235-240 Published: Jul-Aug 1998
Times Cited: 43 (from Web of Science)
Measurement of the electric power quality and related problems
Author(s): Ferrero A; Menchetti A; Sasdelli R
Source: European Transactions on Electrical Power Volume: 6
Issue: 6 Pages: 401-406 Published: Nov-Dec 1996
Times Cited: 35 (from Web of Science)
Mathematical foundations of the instantaneous power concepts:
An algebraic approach
Author(s): Cristaldi L; Ferrero A
Source: European Transactions on Electrical Power Volume: 6
Issue: 5 Pages: 305-309 Published: Sep-Oct 1996
Times Cited: 28 (from Web of Science)
Papers related to Digital Signal Processing methods
High-accuracy fourier-analysis based on synchronous sampling
techniques
Author(s): Ferrero A; Ottoboni R
Source: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and
Measurement Volume: 41 Issue: 6 Pages: 780-785 DOI:
10.1109/19.199406 Published: Dec 1992
Times Cited: 34 (from Web of Science)
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A low-cost frequency-multiplier for synchronous sampling of
periodic signals
Author(s): Ferrero A; Ottoboni R
Source: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and
Measurement Volume: 41 Issue: 2 Pages: 203-207 DOI:
10.1109/19.137348 Published: Apr 1992
Times Cited: 21 (from Web of Science)
Papers related to uncertainty expression and evaluation
The random-fuzzy variables: A new approach to the expression of
uncertainty in measurement
Author(s): Ferrero A; Salicone S
Source: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and
Measurement Volume: 53 Issue: 5 Pages: 1370-1377 DOI:
10.1109/TIM.2004.831506 Published: Oct. 2004
Times Cited: 69 (from Web of Science)
A calibration procedure for a digital instrument for electric power
quality measurement
Author(s): Ferrero A; Lazzaroni M; Salicone S
Source: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and
Measurement Volume51 Issue: 4 Pages: 716-722 DOI:
10.1109/TIM.2002.803293 Published: Aug 2002
Times Cited: 35 (from Web of Science)
Fully comprehensive mathematical approach to the expression of
uncertainty in measurement
Author(s): Ferrero A; SaliconeSSource: IEEE Transactions on
Instrumentation and Measurement Volume: 55 Issue: 3 Pages:
706-712 DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.873799 Published: Jun 2006
Times Cited: 35 (from Web of Science)
A method based on random-fuzzy variables for online estimation
of the measurement uncertainty of DSP-based instruments
Author(s): Ferrero A; Gamba R; Salicone S
Source: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and
Measurement Volume: 53 Issue: 5 Pages: 1362-1369 DOI:
10.1109/TIM.2004.831505 Published: Oct 2004
Times Cited: 28 (from Web of Science)
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Modeling and processing measurement uncertainty within the
theory of evidence: Mathematics of random-fuzzy variables
Author(s): Ferrero Alessandro; Salicone Simona
Source: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and
Measurement Volume: 56 Issue: 3 Pages: 704-716 DOI:
10.1109/TIM.2007.894907 Published: Jun 2007
Times Cited: 28 (from Web of Science)
Papers related to Virtual Remote Laboratories
A Web-based distributed virtual educational laboratory
Author(s): Benetazzo L; Bertocco M; Ferraris F; Ferrero A;
Offelli C; Parvis M; Piuri V
Source: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and
Measurement Volume: 49 Issue: 2 Pages: 349-356 DOI:
10.1109/19.843077 Published: Apr 2000
Times Cited: 78 (from Web of Science)
A simulation tool for virtual laboratory experiments in a WWW
environment
Author(s): Ferrero A; Piuri V
Source: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and
Measurement Volume: 48 Issue: 3 Pages: 741-746 DOI:
10.1109/19.772214 Published: Jun 1999
Times Cited: 42 (from Web of Science)
ReMLab: A Java-based remote, didactic measurement laboratory
Author(s): Ferrero A; Salicone S; Bonora C; et al.
Source: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and
Measurement Volume: 52 Issue: 3 Pages: 710-715 DOI:
10.1109/TIM.2003.814695 Published: Jun 2003
Times Cited: 36 (from Web of Science)
Capitole de cărţi reprezentative / Representative Book Chapters
Alessandro Ferrero et al. Voltage measurement. In John G.
Webster and HalitEren, editors, Measurement, Instrumentation,
and Sensors Handbook. CRC Press, 1999.
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Alessandro Ferrero, Silvia Sangiovanni, and Ennio Zappitelli. A
study for the application of fuzzy-logic techniques to fault-type
identification in digital relaying. In Fuzzy Logic Techniques in
Power Systems, page 360. Physica-Verlag, 1998.
A Ferrero and R Ottoboni. The distributed measurement systems:
A new challenge for the metrologists. In Remote Instrumentation
and Virtual Laboratories, pages 417-426. Springer, 2010.
Alessandro Ferrero, Simona Salicone, et al. An innovative method
for the comparison of measurement results. In Transverse
Disciplines in Metrology, pages 741-754. Wiley Online Library,
2009.
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