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Courses at Oakland University

Design of AC Machines: ECE-4600/5600

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2025

This course is offered to the senior undergraduate and graduate students with the basic knowledge on electric machines to cover the most important concepts on design of AC machines. Step-by-step procedure to electromagnetically design the AC electric machines e.g., induction machines and permanent magnet (PM) machines, is covered in the course by discussing the principles of magnetic circuits, filed distribution and losses in rotating machines.

Power Electronics: ECE-4610

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2024

Power semiconductor devices and circuits. AC/DC Converters. Thyristors and commutation techniques. Phase-controlled rectifiers, choppers and inverters. AC voltage controllers and cycloconverters. Introduction to novel power electronic devices, such as IGBT and power MOSFET. Some industrial applications. With laboratory.

Electric Machines: ECE-3600

Semester: Winter

Offered: 2025

Magnetic circuits, transformers, magnetic energy, force/torque and heat dissipation. DC and AC machines and their equivalent circuits, torque analysis and power efficiency. Three phase transformers, synchronous and induction machines. Per unit system and introduction to power distribution. With laboratories in transformers, DC and AC machines.

Electric Motor Design: Stellantis-OU Electrification Program

Semester: Fall, Winter and Summer

Offered: 2022, 2023, and 2024

Introduction to electric machine design and modeling starting with fundamentals of Maxwell equations, and Faraday, Ampere, and Lenz’s laws. Key concepts include magnetic circuits, reluctance, inductance, B-H curves, core flux distribution. Motor and generator modes, eddy current, hysteresis, and total core losses are discussed. The magnetic equivalent circuit (MEC) and energy balance concept for flux distribution, torque, and force calculations are introduced. Various AC synchronous and asynchronous machines accompanied with their equivalent circuits are explained. Winding configurations, electromagnetic design steps, mechanical considerations, noise and vibration, thermal management, and finite element analysis (FEA) are also included.

Past courses in Canada

Power Electronics: ELEC-4450 (University of Windsor)

Semester: Winter

Offered: 2022 and 2023

This course covers fundamentals of power conversion techniques: Review of semi-conductor switches, review of basic electrical circuits, single-phase and three- phase rectifier and inverter circuits, switch- mode converters and power supplies, control of switch-mode DC power supplies, computer simulation and laboratory testing of power electronic converters and systems.

Design of AC Machines: ELEC-8900 (University of Windsor)

Semester: Fall and Winter

Offered: 2021, 2022 and 2023

This course is specifically offered to the graduate students with the basic knowledge on electric machines to cover the most important concepts on design of AC machines. Step-by-step procedure to electromagnetically design of AC electric machines e.g., induction machines and permanent magnet (PM) machines, is covered in the course by discussing about the principles of magnetic circuits, filed distribution and losses in rotating machines.

Computational Methods and Modeling for Engineering Applications: GENG-8030 (University of Windsor)

Semester: Fall, Winter and Summer

Offered: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024

This course covers the basics of computational analysis for real-world engineering applications. Students will learn the fundamentals of programming and modeling with MATLAB. Topics include Computational Methods, Model Building, for Engineering Projects, Hardware for Real-time Testing, Data Acquisition from Sensors. Students will complete a real-world project in the areas of their interests.

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