Michel G. Malti

{{Short description|American electrical engineer}}

{{Infobox engineer

| name = Michel George Malti

| birth_date = November 7, 1895

| birth_place = Deir el Qamar, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Lebanon)

| death_date = May 1978 (aged 82)

| death_place = Miami, Florida, U.S.

| nationality = American

| alma_mater = Syrian Protestant College,

Georgia Tech, Cornell University

| known_for = Circuit analysis, dynamo balancing, 3D modeling of eddy currents

| awards = IEEE Fellow

}}

Michel George Malti (November 7, 1895 – May 1978) was an American electrical engineer, known for his work in circuit analysis. He was born in Deir el Qamar, in modern-day Lebanon and died in Miami, Florida.{{cite book |author= Winfield Scott Downs |title=Who's Who in New York (City and State) |url=https://books.google.com/books?lr=&output=html&q=Michel++Malti+who%27s+who&btnG=Search+Books |location=Bloomington |year=1947|pages= 672|isbn=|oclc= |doi= |accessdate=2008-06-23 }}{{cite web |url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi |title=Social Security Death Index Interactive Search |format= |website= |accessdate=}}

He graduated from the Syrian Protestant college (1915) and from Georgia Tech (1922), before joining Cornell University as an instructor and student, earning a M.Sc. (1924) and Ph.D. (1927), all degrees in electrical engineering.{{cite news|title=Professor Michel Malti Due to Retire in July |url=http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/newscornell?a=d&d=CDS19620608.2.5.1&e=--------20--1-----all |work=The Cornell Daily Sun |page=5 |date=8 June 1962 |accessdate=2011-07-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320200416/http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/newscornell?a=d&d=CDS19620608.2.5.1&e=--------20--1-----all |archivedate=20 March 2012 }}

He continued to serve as research assistant and faculty member in civil engineering and as a professor in electrical engineering until his retirement (1962), spending sabbaticals at the University of Puerto Rico (1947) and the University of Roorkee in India (1955–57). In 1939 Malti and Fritz Herzog solved an important electric power problem on balancing dynamos, which had remained unsolved since the days of Michael Faraday a century before.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/03/13/archives/dynamo-balance-found-at-cornell-problem-left-by-faraday-is-solved.html?sq=michel+malti&scp=2&st=p | title=DYNAMO 'BALANCE' FOUND AT CORNELL; Problem Left by Faraday Is Solved ... | date = 13 March 1939 | work= New York Times |accessdate=2008-06-27}}{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/237541992.html?dids=237541992:237541992&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Mar+13%2C+1939&author=By+the+Associated+Press.&pub=The+Washington+Post++(1877-1954)&edition=&startpage=2&desc=Cornell+Scientists+Find+New+Way+to+%27Balance%27+Dynamos |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131175036/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/237541992.html?dids=237541992:237541992&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Mar+13,+1939&author=By+the+Associated+Press.&pub=The+Washington+Post++(1877-1954)&edition=&startpage=2&desc=Cornell+Scientists+Find+New+Way+to+'Balance'+Dynamos |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 31, 2013 |title=Cornell Scientists Find New Way to 'Balance' Dynamos | date = 13 March 1939 |newspaper=Washington Post |accessdate=2008-06-27}}

He later supervised research on 3D-modeling of Eddy currents.{{cite journal | last =Malti | first =Michel G. |author2=Ramakumar, R. |date=October 1963 | title =Three-Dimensional Theory of the Eddy-Current Coupling| journal =IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems | volume = 82 | issue =68 | pages =793–800 | doi =10.1109/TPAS.1963.291410 | bibcode =1963ITPAS..82..793M }} Malti was an IEEE Fellow.