Mr Ewan Goodier

CENTRE FOR ADVANCED ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED DRIVES

Mr. Ewan Goodier

Department of Engineering

Telephone 0116 252 2558 (lab)

Fax: 0116 252 2619

Engineering Department,
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH
England

This centre and these projects have mostly moved to the Company Technelec Ltd, that was set up
by Professor Pollock to exploit this technology

Ewan Goodier is a Third Year PhD Research Student at the University of Leicester and is a Member of the Centre for Advanced Electronically Controlled Drives.

He obtained 4 A’s and a B for his A-level exams plus S-level Physics at Wirral Grammar School for Boys, England.

He graduated from University of Birmingham, England in 1998 with 2:1 BEng Hons in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The Final year modules he chose were Power Electronics Applications, Modern Electrical Design, Industrial Awareness (Industrial Organisation & Management, Management of Engineering Projects), Electronics and Signal Processing, and Final Year Project on Personal Noise Exposure Monitor. During his time as an undergraduate he was awarded an Engineering Council ‘Top Flight’ Bursary.

He started his PhD at University of Warwick, England in Autumn, 1998 in order to continue his interest in Electric Motors and PIC microcontrollers. His area of research interest is Variable Reluctance Drives with DC Assisted Excitation and Permanent Magnet Flux Switching Motors. He is also researching into the use of analogue to digital conversion PIC microcontrollers to provide a new control scheme for such motors to allow fast optimisation of these prototype machines.

The Research Group moved across to University of Leicester over Summer, 1999 due to Charles Pollock gaining a Professorship there. His Research has continued at Leicester since then.

Due to the commercially sensitive potential of this work he unfortunately cannot go into too much detail about the motors he is designing. Two motors have been built and tested to date and a third is in the design/building stage. Photos of the motors are shown below. The large wire numbers are due to testing of the motors (thermocouples, back-emf sense coils, etc).

Two papers have been written and accepted for the IEEE Industrial Applications Society (IAS) to be held in Chicago in September/October 2001. The titles of the papers are given below and will be in press at the IAS meeting.

Homopolar Variable Reluctance Machine incorporating an Axial Field Coil

Design and Control of a Variable Reluctance Drive with axially orientated dc flux assistance

Ewan Goodier is a student member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and has applied for IEEE membership.

He is an appointed person in First Aid at the University and the author of the Centre for Advanced Electronically Controlled Drives web pages.

Ewan Goodier was asked to make these Web Pages for the Centre for Advanced Electronically Controlled Drives. He hopes it is an enjoyable experience for all who wish to use this site. He has tried to make this site as user friendly as possible. He would like to thank the Engineering Web Maintainer for his advice and the staff of the Centre for Advanced Electronically Controlled Drives for their cooperation and encouragement.

To contact Ewan Goodier about his work or the web pages please use this email link to ertg1@le.ac.uk.

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