Welcome to Federico and Parth! These two brave students have joined our group mid-winter. We’ve promised them the weather here actually will get warmer. Thankfully Jimmy (the Wisconsin groundhog) did not see his shadow, so …
Congrats to Fall 2021 Graduates and Dissertators
Congrats to Nathan, Anvar, and Nishanth! Nathan finished his MS project on the development of a new, open-source control platform and creative sandbox for electric machines. The platform is appropriately entitled the Advanced Motor Drive …
Watch: Severson gives MERL invited seminar on magnetically levitated motor systems
Use the Force for Good: Sustainability Through Magnetic Levitation. Electric motors pump our water, heat and cool our homes and offices, drive critical medical and surgical equipment, and, increasingly, operate our transportation systems. Approximately 99% …
New Funding: DOE Project to Develop a Fully Electric Powered, Hydraulic Assisted, Compact Track Loader
Today’s off-highway vehicles (i.e., agriculture and construction equipment) contribute to 18% of US CO2 emissions. These vehicles are notoriously inefficient, with only 20% of engine shaft energy reaching the vehicle implements. The Severson Group is …
Congrats to Summer 2021 Graduates
Congratulations to Ashad and Michael! Ashad finished his MS project on design and characterization of high speed bearingless PM motors. Ashad will be joining Milwaukee Tool’s Power Tool Technology Team where he will be developing …
Discovery Outreach internship opportunity for undergraduate student
Undergraduate students: we are working with 4-H and Discovery Outreach to develop electromagnetic experimentation kits to engage with middle and high school youth. If this sounds interesting, consider joining our team as an intern on …
Axial flux machine design research featured on Siemen’s website
Congrats Nishanth! His research on the development of high power density, affordable axial flux electric machine’s for off-highway vehicle electrification is featured in a Siemen’s blog post Identifying key tradeoffs for optimizing electrification of heavy …
Congrats to 2020-2021 Graduates
Congratulations to Nishanth, Anvar, and Tim! Nishanth finished his MS project on the characterization of ultra-thin gauge electric steel laminations. Nishanth is continuing in our research group, working toward a PhD in electric machine design …
New project: aircraft hybrid-electric engine research
The Severson Research Group is working with ARL and UW’s ERC to explore using bearingless motor technology to create a new generation of electric turbochargers for aerial vehicles.
Hemenway Defends Thesis on 3 Pole Magnetic Bearings
Congratulations to Nicholas Hemenway on successfully defending his MS thesis! Title: Analysis, Design, and Control of a Combined Radial-Axial Three-Pole Magnetic Bearing Abstract: Magnetic bearings provide an attractive alternative to traditional contact-type bearings because of …