Past Automotive and Advanced Applications Projects
Motor applications are expanding rapidly. A typical automobile built today has hundreds of electric motors and electromechanical sensors and actuators. At high power levels, motors drive electric and hybrid cars, trucks, buses, ships, mining equipment, and other forms of transportation. The CEME supports projects that expand the usefulness of electric machines and electromechanical devices, and seeks to promote new ideas for high-performance applications, including hybrid power systems for aircraft, electric vehicle charging for utility grid benefits, and other aspects of transportation electrification. Our students continue to lead in developing, maximizing output, minimizing losses, and detecting and diagnosing faults in transportation drive systems.
2023-2024
2022-2023 Interim
- Brushless Doubly-Fed Reluctance Machines for Turboelectric Distributed Propulsion Systems
- Cryogen-free Superconducting Machine
- Investigating Optimal Inverter Topologies for Electric Aviation Application
- The Solution to 90% of Passenger EV Charging Needs
- Variable-Pole Induction Machines Drives for Electric Vehicles
2022-2023
- Brushless Doubly-Fed Reluctance Machines for Turboelectric Distributed Propulsion Systems
- Brushless Doubly-Fed Reluctance Machines for Turboelectric Distributed Propulsion Systems
- Cryogen-free Superconducting Machine
- Cryogen-free Superconducting Machine
- Investigating Optimal Inverter Topologies for Electric Aviation Application
- Investigating Optimal Inverter Topologies for Electric Aviation Application
- The Solution to 90% of Passenger EV Charging Needs
- The Solution to 90% of Passenger EV Charging Needs
- Variable-Pole Induction Machines Drives for Electric Vehicles
- Variable-Pole Induction Machines Drives for Electric Vehicles
2021-2022 Interim
- Analysis and Design of Pulse De-icing on Electric Aircraft
- Ensuring Reliability of Motor-Winding Insulation for Urban Air-Taxi Applications
- Flow-Boiling of Hydrogen as Cooling Method for Superconducting Windings
- Investigating Optimal Inverter Topologies for Electric Aviation Applications
- Motor Winding Reliab
- System-Aware Optimization of Electric Machines for Regional Aircraft Propulsion Applications
- Variable-Pole Induction Machines Drives for Electric Vehicles
- Variable-Pole Induction Machines for Electric Vehicles
2021-2022
- Analysis and Design of Pulse De-icing on Electric Aircraft
- Ensuring Reliability of Motor-Winding Insulation for Urban Air-Taxi Applications
- Flow-Boiling of Hydrogen as Cooling Method for Superconducting Windings
- Investigating Optimal Inverter Topologies for Electric Aviation Applications
- Motor Winding Reliab
- System-Aware Optimization of Electric Machines for Regional Aircraft Propulsion Applications
- Variable-Pole Induction Machines Drives for Electric Vehicles
- Variable-Pole Induction Machines for Electric Vehicles
2019-2020 Interim
- An Integrated Generator-Rectifier System for High-Power Ac-to-Dc Conversion
- Conceptual Design of an eVTOL Air Shuttle for Rapid Intercity Transport – Co-Design of a Direct-Drive Electric Propulsor
- Conceptual Design of an eVTOL Air Shuttle for Rapid Intercity Transport – Design Space Exploration and Optimization of Propeller-Motor Subsystem for Electric Aircraft
- Integration of End-Winding Cooling and In-Slot Winding Cooling for High Power Density Electric Machines
2019-2020
- An Integrated Generator-Rectifier System for High-Power Ac-to-Dc Conversion
- Conceptual Design of an eVTOL Air Shuttle for Rapid Intercity Transport – Co-Design of a Direct-Drive Electric Propulsor
- Conceptual Design of an eVTOL Air Shuttle for Rapid Intercity Transport – Design Space Exploration and Optimization of Propeller-Motor Subsystem for Electric Aircraft
- Integration of End-Winding Cooling and In-Slot Winding Cooling for High Power Density Electric Machines
- Integration of End-winding Cooling and In-Slot Winding Cooling for High Power Density Electric Machines
- Real-Time Health Monitoring of IGBT Modules
- Variable-Pole Induction Machines for Electric Vehicles
2018-2019 Interim
2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017
- A Five-Level Flying Capacitor Multi-Level Converter with Integrated Auxiliary Supply and Start-Up
- Combined Thermal and Electrical Design for High Density Power Converters in Electric Vehicles
- Control of Flying Capacitor Inverters for Motor Drive Applications
- Electric Field Jumping Droplet Condensation for Active Hot Spot Cooling of High Power Density Electronics
2012-2013
2011-2012
2010-2011
- Charging and Chargers for Electric Vehicles/Plug-in Electric Vehicles and their Utility Grid Interaction
- Observer Based Fault Detection for D-STATCOM Systems
- Observer-Based Fault Diagnosis of Power Electronics Systems
- Power Draw Scheduling of Electric and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles with Unidirectional Vehicle-to-Grid Benefits
2009-2010
2008-2009
2007-2008
2006-2007
2005-2006
2004-2005
- Electromechanical Characteristics Investigation of Dual Mechanical Port Electric Machines
- Team Project – Hybrid Electric Vehicle Systems