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• New Funding: Severson receives NSF CAREER award

  Exact Actuation of Magnetic Field Forces Across All DOF in Electric Motors The objective of this research is to overcome fundamental challenges of both conventional motor bearings and magnetic bearings. While today’s electric motors utilize …

  December 12, 2019
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  New Funding: Delta Electronics to Support Development of 160,000 RPM Bearingless Motor

  Delta Electronics, a provider of some of the world’s most efficient power supply technology, is sponsoring the Severson Group’s research on ultra high speed bearingless motors. The Severson group will use funds provided by Delta …

  November 15, 2019

• New Funding: DOE Project on Improving Efficiency of Off-Road Vehicles by Novel Integration of Electric Machines and Advanced Combustion Engines

  The Severson Group is part of a multi-institution team that has received funding from the United States Department of Energy to integrate electric machines into engines of off-highway vehicles. These machines will enable advanced combustion …

  July 29, 2019
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  Nathan Petersen Receives Grainger Power Engineering Award

  Group member Nathan Petersen has received a 2019 Grainger Power Engineering Award. These awards are supported by the Grainger Foundation and are intended to identify upcoming talent and recognize scholarly achievement in power engineering. Congratulations …

  April 1, 2019
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  New Funding: Beta to Sponsor Development of Open Source Advanced Motor Drive Control Platform

  Beta Technologies, a startup company developing next generation electric flight eVTOL technology, has agreed to sponsor the Severson Group’s open source development of the Advance Motor Drive Control (AMDC) platform. The hardware and firmware design …

  February 26, 2019
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