Dr. Rashid received B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (1967) from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees (1971 & 1976) from the University of Birmingham in UK. Previously, he worked as a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Chair of the Engineering Department at Purdue University at Fort Wayne. Also, he worked as a design and development engineer with Brush Electrical Machines Ltd. (England, UK), a Research Engineer with Lucas Group Research Centre (England, UK), a Lecturer and Head of Control Engineering Department at the Higher Institute of Electronics (Malta), a Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Connecticut, an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University Calumet and a Visiting Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals (in Saudi Arabia).

Dr. Rashid is actively involved in teaching, researching, and lecturing in power electronics and has published 16 books and more than 130 technical papers. Dr. Rashid authored and/or co-authored eleven (14) books in the areas of Power Electronics, Microelectronics, Computer-Aided Analysis and Design of Electrical and Electronics circuits, and Electro-Mechanics and Electrical Machinery. His books are adopted as textbooks all over the world. His book, Power electronics has translations in Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Korean and Persian. His book, Microelectronics has translations in Spanish in Mexico and Spain. He is an internationally renowned authority on power electronics, a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (London) and a 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 (IEEE). 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 citation: For his distinguished leadership and dedication to quality undergraduate electrical engineering education, motivating students and publication of outstanding textbooks. He offered many workshops and gave lectures on outcome-based education (OBE) and assessments for achieving domain-based academic learning outcomes.

He has had many invitations from foreign governments and agencies to be keynote lecturer and consultant, from foreign universities to serve as an external Ph.D. examiner, and from funding agencies research proposal reviewer. His contributions in education is recognized by foreign governments and agencies to lecture and consult (NATO for Turkey in 1994, UNDP for Bangladesh in 1989 and 1994, Saudi Arabia in 1993, Pakistan in 1993, Malaysia in 1995 and 2002, Bangkok in 2002), by foreign universities (in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore) to serve as an external examiner (for undergraduate, master's and Ph.D. examinations), by funding agencies (in Australia, Canada, USA, Hong Kong) to review research proposals, and by U.S. and foreign universities to evaluate promotion cases for professorship. Dr. Rashid has consulted with developing organizations in Malaysia, Singapore, Korea, and Bangladesh. He has also worked in United Kingdom, Malta, Libya, Saudia Arabia, Canada, Singapore,and Bangladesh. Dr. Rashid has experience in many cultures, and traveled to at least 30 countries for lecturing and presenting papers.