Solar Decathlon House

Would you like to help build the UIUC Solar Decathlon House? We will have many opportunities for students to help with the construction of the Solar House throughout this upcoming semester, including construction classes and volunteer days. Come to the UIUC Solar Decathlon Construction Info Meeting on Wednesday January 17th to learn more about how you can contribute. Place: Room 120 Architecture Hall Time: 6:00 pm Date: January 17th, 2007 See you there!

Information Session

The IEEE Student Chapter will be hosting an information session for undergraduates interested in the Power and Energy program. Many graduate students with different academic and industrial experience will be there to answer questions about power projects, classes, and other opportunities in the field. Please fill out the form, accessed via the link below, so we can prepare your nametag and estimate how much pizza to order. We hope to see you there. The event will take place Monday, January 29th, 2007, at 6 pm in 365 Everitt Lab (Tykociner Conference Room). We hope to see you there.

Chapter Elections for 2006-2007

The election results for the Fall 2006 - Spring 2007 semesters are: Grant Pitel - (Chairperson); Brian Raczkowski - (Vice-Chair); Abhishek Banerjee- (Treasurer); and Yingying Kuai- (Secretary).

COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF DRIVES FOR INDUCTION MOTORS

Monday, March 30, 2009, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m., Room 50 Everitt Lab ------------ Abstract: Motor control will be reviewed and then the presentation will focus on the comparison between two major types of induction motor drives: direct torque control (DTC) and indirect field oriented control (IFOC). The presentation will give an introduction to both DTC and IFOC and then explore the similarities and differences between the two. It will be shown that the drives themselves can be separated from their switching schemes. A parameter sensitivity analysis of the two drives will be given along with simulation results using MATLAB- Simulink and some experimental results using our in-house modular inverter that verifies the theory.

Presented by Andrew Friedl