Vacant academic positions : Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Electrical Power & Energy Engineering ( University of Bath - UK)

A Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader post is available immediately in the Centre for Sustainable Power Distribution in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering at The University of Bath. The department is rated in the UK top 10 in its Unit of Assessment in the Research Assessment Exercise 2008 and number 4 in the UK National Student Survey 2009.

The research focus of the post can be in any area of electrical power and energy engineering. The successful candidate will play a key role in developing interdisciplinary power and energy research within the Faculty of Engineering and Design and the wider university. The appointee will contribute to the department’s growing collaborations with Chinese universities in research and teaching.

Opportunities for research funding are excellent and the area has been identified as a priority by government, industry, the UK research councils and the EU. Teaching will include both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Applicants for Senior Lecturer/Reader, should have a strong track record of publications at an international level and a proven ability to attract research funding.

Vacant academic positions :Lecturer in Power Electronics (University of Aberdeen - UK)

Job Summary: The School of Engineering at the University of Aberdeen is seeking to appoint a Lecturer who will contribute to research and teaching in the Power Electronics area. The appointee will be a dynamic individual with clear ability for leading highest-quality research in his/her field. He/she will have excellent communication skills and the desire and ability to excel in teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

The successful applicant will strengthen an established power systems group with internationally recognised excellence in power electronics applications to transmission/distribution systems. There is an opportunity to contribute to the existing research on DC Transmission grids and to develop new research areas.

The new Lecturer will join a research-intensive General Engineering unit, which had 83% of its research output ranked as world leading or internationally excellent in the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008).

Salary will be at the appropriate point on the Grade 7 scale (£36,862 - £44,016 per annum), with placement according to qualifications and experience.

Technical Papers: How to Save Energy in Buildings ?

Irrespective of the building to be built or managed, there is a need for solutions to control energy consumption. This holds true throughout the world for all types of buildings, in the industrial, residential or service sectors.

Before designing or upgrading a building, and in particular its electrical installations, it is essential: to study its energy needs and the available energy sources; to find the best balance between management systems, distribution networks and consumer equipment; to take account of operational requirements.

This technical paper presents a methodology for effective preliminary study work. The author therefore explores all of the elements which contribute to energy savings and which, depending on the installation, may or may not be selected.

Contents

1 Introduction

1.1 Players

1.2 Needs

2 Itemizing energy consumption and available energy sources

2.1 Energy consumption

2.2 Energy sources

3 Reducing energy costs

3.1 Analyzing energy bills

3.2 Using the existing contract

3.3 Renegotiating the contract

4 Reducing energy consumption

4.1 Savings in the HVAC system

4.2 Savings on domestic hot water

4.3 Savings on lighting

4.4 Reducing electrical energy losses

4.5 Other savings

4.6 Advantages of correct maintenance

4.7 Importance of metering

4.8 The energy audit approach

Online Video Courses: Electric Drives (NPTEL-INDIA)

Detailed Syllabus :

1. Introduction      (4 hours)

a.     Classification of Electric Drives

b.     Requirements of Electric Drives

c.      Some Applications 

2. Converters and control     (6 hours)

a.     Phase controlled converters

b.     Four quadrant operation 

c.      Choppers

d.     AC to DC converters

3. DC motor drives     (4 hours)

a.     Speed-torque characteristics DC shunt,  

b.     PMDC and series motors

c.      Dynamic model

d.     Speed and position control methods

4. Inverters and PWM techniques    (8 hours)

a.     voltage source inverters (1h)

b.     current source inverters (1h)

c.      PWM techniques

i. sine-triangle comparison (1h)

ii. harmonic elimination (1h)

iii. hysteresis current controllers (1h)

iv. space vector pwm  (3h)

5. AC motor drives     (10 hours)

a.              d-q model of induction motor (2 h)

b.              constant flux speed control structure (2h)

c.               vector control model (3h)

d.              vector control structure (3h

Description: Lectures by Prof. K Gopakumar Centre for Electronics Design and Technology IISC Bangalore

Online Video Courses: Industrial Instrumentation and Process Control (NPTEL-INDIA)

Introduction: The evolution of instrumentation and process control has undergone several industrial revolutions leading to the complexities of modern day microprocessor-controlled processing. Today’s technological evolution has made it possible to measure parameters deemed impossible only a few years ago. Improvements in accuracy, tighter control, and waste reduction have also been achieved. Instrumentation and process control involve a wide range of technologies and sciences, and they are used in an unprecedented number of applications. Examples range from the control of heating, cooling, and hot water systems in homes and offices to chemical and automotive instrumentation and process control.

Description: Lecture Series on Industrial Instrumentation by Prof.Alok Barua, Department of Electrical Engineering,IIT Kharagpur.

SENIOR LECTURER/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR POSITION IN POWER ELECTRONICS, ELECTRICAL DRIVES OR ELECTRICAL MACHINES (Sweden)

Job description

Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)  is looking for a person with a Ph.D and preferably also a Docent degree in Electric Power Engineering, preferably in the area of Power Electronics, Electrical Drives or Electrical Machines. The position offers a permanent appointment and combines teaching courses at M.Sc. level in Electrical Drives, Electrical Machines and Power Electronics, performing own research and participating in administrative work of the division. The teaching is to be conducted in English, although teaching of general courses within Electric Power Engineering, where Swedish is used as the instruction language, may also be included. Own research on a PostDoc level will be accompanied by supervision of M.Sc students and Ph.D. students.

The post is a full time tenure appointment which includes teaching at all levels, from undergraduate to postgraduate. It also includes supervision of PhD students and conducting research. Administrative and management duties are also normally included.

The applicant should be able to collaborate with industrial, academic and governmental partners and also be capable of successfully applying for external grants for the research. Your own research and the PhD students are financed primarily with external grants.

Fully funded International PhD Scholarships in Transportation Engineering or Power Electronics (UK)

Applications are invited for two fully-funded PhD scholarships (fees and living costs) to undertake research in the areas of Transportation Engineering or Power Electronics at the University of Nottingham (UK) with approximately one year of their research program studying at Virginia Tech (USA). Competition for these scholarships is expected to be very strong because each brings the opportunity for students to study with world-leading research groups in both countries. 

Areas in which applications are invited:

Transportation

• Sustainability assessment of the construction and maintenance of transport infrastructure: This might include research questions concerning the application of environmental life cycle assessment or multicriteria decision making to infrastructure systems.
• Asset management of transport infrastructure: Data handling, deterioration modelling, integration of environmental criteria including carbon footprint.
• Condition monitoring of transport infrastructure: Challenges include repeatable location referencing, data quality, and use of private vehicle data.
• Road surface condition and safety: Understanding the combined role of road geometry and condition in crash studies and prevention, impact on driver behavior.
• Low-carbon, environmentally-friendly construction materials. Laboratory synthesis or manufacture and characterisation of materials derived from renewable, waste or recycled feedstocks.

Power Electronics

25th january Egyptian People's Revolution

Dear my friends, I apologize to you about being cut off from blogging in the previous period due to the interruption of the internet services completely all over Egypt for 5 days and I hope that you will understand my feelings to stop blogging in the meantime because of the current circumstances in my country.

Ask you all to pray for Egypt

Muhammad

اصدقائى الاعزاء اعتذر اليكم عن انقطاعى عن التدوين فى الفترة السابقة بسبب انقطاع خدمة الانترنت فى جميع انحاء مصر لمدة 5 ايام 

كاملة وارجو ان تتفهموا توقفى على التدوين مؤقتا فى الوقت الحالى نظرا للظروف الراهنة التى تمر بها بلدى.

اسالكم جميعا ان تصلوا من اجل مصر

محمد