Design of Electric Motors, Generators, and Drive Systems, Certificate | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Boston, United States
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Design of Electric Motors, Generators, and Drive Systems

5 days
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The Design of Electric Motors, Generators, and Drive Systems course offered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) explore how modern embedded controllers enable command through digital computation, breathing life into electric machines and motion control applications. 

Overview

What you will study

Motors are becoming better and cheaper—opening profitable new applications across industries. In the Design of Electric Motors, Generators, and Drive Systems course offered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for engineers and product designers, you will learn to assess and design electric motors, generators, and drive systems, with emphasis on electric drives, including traction drives and drive motors.

By taking this course, you will:

  • Understand the field and energy conservation description of magnetic forces
  • Use circuit techniques to describe electric machinery
  • Describe power electronic circuits used to control electric machines
  • Explore power electronic losses and efficiency as affected by frequency of operation.
  • Assess the expansion of windings in space harmonics and use of those space harmonics to describe machine operation
  • Discover how permanent magnets are used in electric machinery
  • Examine the interactions between electromechanics of motors and power electronics and controls
  • Learn to apply operational requirements in electric machine design
  • Receive an introduction to Programmable System-on-Chip (PSoC) embedded control

Programme Structure

The program focuses on:

  • Elements of energy conversion: energy, co-energy, force and torque as derivatives of energy, field- based force calculations
  • Energy conversion in electric machines: force and shear density, machine power density and efficiency
  • Review of the principles of the basic machine types: synchronous, induction, variable reluctance
  • Power electronic circuits including inverters, phase control and pulse width modulation
  • Exercises in the use of MATLAB and Octave
  • Induction machines in some depth
  • Performance evaluation of electric machines
  • Field-oriented control
  • Permanent magnet machines
  • Control strategies for PM machines: torque/speed limitations, taking advantage of negative saliency, elements of field oriented control
  • Optimal machine design, considering application details
  • Digitally-enabled embedded control applications

Key information

Duration

  • Full-time
    • 5 days

Start dates & application deadlines

Language

English

Credits

3 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

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  • Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
  • Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
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  • Home contents and baggage
  • Accidents
  • Legal aid

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Other requirements

General requirements

  • Participants should have at least a basic knowledge of electric circuit analysis and vector calculus and a working familiarity with the principles of electromagnetism.
  • Engineers who want to improve the design or application of electric motors for industrial or traction drives
  • Engineers who use electric machines for electric power generation and need to better understand their operation
  • Engineering managers who want to improve their ability to oversee teams that work with electric motors

Technological requirements

  • A computer with internet access and MATLAB OR Octave is required. 

Tuition Fee

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    4800 USD/full
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    4800 USD/full
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    Based on the tuition of 4800 USD for the full programme during 5 days.

Living costs for Boston

1560 - 3239 USD /month
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