April 2025
The Annual Review is less than a month away!
The lab is buzzing, the faculty and students’ presentations and posters are taking shape.
The excitement is rising and we look forward to seeing you all there!
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Lipo & Novotny Memoriam Reception On April 7th, Professor Thomas Jahns, alongside the Memorial Committee, presented a Memorial Resolution to Emeritus Faculty and WEMPEC co-Founders Donald W. Novotny & Thomas A. Lipo at the University Faculty Senate meeting. WEMPEC hosted a reception in honor of Professors Novotny and Lipo, attended by WEMPEC faculty and staff, and 12 members of the Lipo and Novotny families. You can read the full resolutions on our website here. |
| Designing AC Machines in course ECE 713 In Prof. Dan Ludois’s course ECE 713 – “Electromagnetic Design of AC Machines”, 13 students are studying electric machine design this semester. After going through the theory, they were tasked with designing and fabricating a small electric machine in groups as their final project. To facilitate fabrication, the motor size and mechanical base were given, taken over from builds previously developed by ME students as Senior Design projects. Each group chose a different machine type and developed their own stator and rotor design. The goal is to have the machines spinning by the end of the semester. The pictures show the start of the fabrication process, with the whole class meeting in the Grainger Lab fabrication annex to learn metal laser cutting and coil winding, which developed into an impromptu discussion of each group’s lamination design from a design-to-manufacturability standpoint. |
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WEMPEC Spring Potluck Keeping with annual tradition, students, faculty, staff and their families gathered together for the WEMPEC Spring Potluck on April 5th , at the Eagle Heights Community Center. Cultural foods were shared and games were enjoyed. |
| Engineering Expo The Engineering EXPO is a two-day event run entirely by College of Engineering students to introduce middle and high schoolers to the exciting world of engineering and encourage them to explore STEM careers. The WEMPEC students’ station let visitors experiment with magnetism in different ways, explore how it can be used to spin an electric machine, and build a simple homopolar motor themselves. |
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