Friday, 21 January 2011

Career in Electrical machines


In this post we shall discuss about the career opportunities in electrical machines and company who hire motor designers.

Electrical machines is one of the specializations in electrical engineering. Most top institutes and universities provide Electric Drives/ Electric machines & Drives as specialization where students will pursue motor control and power electronics. By "Electric Machines" , I mean just electric machines, design aspects of various motors for various applications, expertise in various motor technologies. Due to the IT burst, people who are taking this course reduced drastically. Most Electric machine designers are veteran and current generation is not much involved in this career.We know electrical machines are everywhere and every application from domestic, automotive and industrial. Hence the man power requirement is unlimited but no one is actually working in this field. Hence in coming years " Motor designers" will have great importance around the world.

There are many motor technologies around the world and are as follows

1. Induction motors, DC motors, Synchronous motors are convectional motors and are for following applications
- Textile mills, industrial applications, Heavy electric vehicles, electric traction,
2. Brushless DC motors, synchronous motors are latest technologies and are for following applications
- Light and medium electric vehicles, small automotive motors, starter motors, servo applications, aerospace.

There is a great need of R&D to optimize the motor efficiency and increase the system efficiency. Hence people who understands motor are having great demand.

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