The Electrical Machines & Drives Laboratory

at Michigan State University

 


 

Elias Strangas,

Associate Professor and Laboratory Director
strangas@egr.msu.edu

 


Graduate Students

 

 

John Kelly, Ph.D. Candidate, kellyjo2@msu.edu

John is working on polyphase induction motors and pole switching, as well as pole-phase space and pulse width modulation.  He is applying this work to a starter-alternator for hybrid electric vehicles. Here is an early presentation on this work. We hope to have him back very soon.

 

 

Shanelle Foster, Ph.D. Candidate, hogansha@egr.msu.edu

Shanelle is working on Field Oriented-based Control of Linear Induction Motors.

Wes Zanardelli, Ph.D., zanardel@egr.msu.edu

Wes is working on fault prediction in electrical machines and drives. He is also the resident expert on computers, including RT Linux. Here is a poster of a recent conference

Sinisa Jurkovic, Ph.D. candidate, jurkovi4@egr.msu.edu

Sinisa is working on designing electrical drives with high reliability and minimal sensors. He is using techniques based control theory and on the secondary phenomena of Induction and PM machines to achieve these objectives. Here is a poster on his work.

Stephen Bohan,  M.S Candidate bohanste@msu.edu

 

Steve works on a variable electrical  transmission  system for automotive applications

 

Chris Roff  roffchri@msu.edu 

 

Chris just graduated with a B.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering. He worked in the laboratory to program frequency injection in the current of electrical machines, in order to predict the position of the rotor flux.

 

John Neely M.S.  neelyjoh@egr.msu.edu

 

John just defended his thesis failure modes, mitigation methods and  and reliability of PMAC Drives. 

Prisca Hartig , hartigpr@msu.edu

Prisca just graduated from  of the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. She wrote a junior thesis about finite elements.