Wesley Williams

Source: 2015 Fall Projects | Senior Design Program | UNC Charlotte

Dr. Williams is mentoring a group of five undergraduates in a senior design project focused on integrating a magnetic gear into the drive train of a wind turbine.  The students, who come from the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Technology, will spend two semesters defining the problem, developing conceptual and detailed design, producing engineering documentation, building, and testing their design.  Offshore energy generation is seen as an attractive application for magnetic gears, where there non-contact transmission of torque can provide inherent overload protection and eliminate some wear mechanisms.

Pushkar Sathe has joined the Magnetic Gearing Research Group as a graduate research assistant. He pursuing his Master’s degree in Applied Energy and Electromechanical Systems”. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pune in Electrical Engineering, where he worked with permanent magnet motors.

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Several faculty and students in the Applied Energy and Electromechanical Systems program enjoyed a tour of Keller Technology Corporation in Huntersville today.  KTC does the custom design, engineering, manufacture, assembly, and testing of manufacturing systems for industrial and medical customers, as well as precision equipment for scientific customers.  It was nice to see a lot of the elements of the curriculum (PLCs, robotics, machine vision, etc.) present in various builds that we saw on the tour.  Special thanks to William Bryan for hosting us today.

• Cameron Nye is a recent graduate of the Electrical Engineering Technology program and will be starting his MS in Applied Energy and Electomechanical Systems this fall.  He is working on the Mission Critical Operations project doing PLC programming and lab exercise development.
•  Josh Warne is a senior in the Mechanical Engineering Technology program and is working the Magnetic Gearing team, focusing on the gearbox testbed.

Matt Calvin was awarded his masters degree this past weekend after successfully defending and completing his thesis.  Matt’s research into comparisons between flux focusing magnetic gear topologies and mechanical gearboxes has been helpful in identifying promising applications for magnet gears.