Course Outline (Winter 2018)

EES612: Electrical Machines and Actuators

Name: Dr. Surinder Jassar

Instructor
E-mail: sjassar@ryerson.ca
Office hours: Monday 2-3 pm
The single-phase transformer and its applications; DC and AC motor characteristics and their
application in mechanical drives; Power electronic circuits, H bridges, PWM control,
Calendar interfacing, power amplifiers; DC servo and stepper motors; AC synchronous and induction
Description motors; Transformers; Introduction to typical speed and torque control techniques of motors.
Lect: 3 hrs - Monday 3-6pm at KHE 321C
Lab: 2 hrs.
EES 512 or ELE 202
Prerequisites
Electrical Engineering: Principles & Applications, Student Value Edition Plus Mastering
Compulsory
Engineering with Pearson eText Access Card Package, 7/E, Allan R. Hambley, 2017, Pearson
Text(s):
ISBN-10: 0134702190, ISBN-13: 9780134702193
1) Electric Machines and Drives, Gordon R. Slemon, 1992,
Addison Wesley: ISBN 0201578859
Reference
Text(s) 2) Power Electronics, N. Mohan, T. Undeland, and W. Robbins, 3rd Edition, 2006,
John Wiley & Sons: ISBN 9788126510900

At the end of this course, the successful student will be able to:
1. Develop further knowledge of electricity and magnetism in support of applications
to electric machinery problems (1a).
2. Use models to solve electric machinery problems and understand limitations of the
Learning
models (2b).
Objectives
3. Compare theoretical values with experimental values, to characterize the accuracy of
(Indicators)
the models and understand their limitations. (3b).
4. Verify and validate experimental results, using established theories and laws of
physics (5b).

NOTE: Numbers in parentheses refer to the graduate attributes required by the Canadian
Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB).

3 hours of lecture per week for 13weeks

Course 2 hours of lab/tutorial per week for 12 weeks
Organization 5 lab sections of maximum 22 students per section.
3 Teaching Assistants (TA)

Palash Banerjee pbanerje@ryerson.ca

Teaching
Assistants Abdeslem Kadri akadri@ryerson.ca
Yu Huo yu.huo@ryerson.ca
 Midterm Exam 30 %
Labs 30 %
Course
Final Exam 40 %
Evaluation
TOTAL: 100 %

Midterm exam will be held in the regular class time (room KHE 321C), on Monday Feb
26th, 2018; it is 2 hours in duration and closed-book; the coverage will be announced before
the exam.
Examinations
Final exam will be scheduled by the university; it will be 3 hours in duration, closed-book,
and comprehensive in coverage

Other Evaluation To achieve a passing grade, student must pass both the Theory (Midterm & Final Exams)
and/or and Laboratory (Labs) components.
Information

Course Content
Topic Text Section Hours Details

Fundamentals of Magnetisms Chapter 14 6 - Conventions and notations

and Actuators - Field strength, flux density, and B-H curve
- Ampere’s law and magnetomotive force (mmf)
- Induction, flux, and Faraday’s law
- Lorentz’s force on a conductor
- Hysteresis loop and loss
- Eddy currents and eddy current losses
- Reluctance and magnetic circuits
DC Machines Chapters 15 6 - Construction and principles of operation
- EMF, commutation, and torque
- Mathematical and circuit models
- Types: separately excited motors; permanent-magnet
motors; shunt motors; and series motors
- Torque-speed characteristics of different motors
- Speed control techniques
Single-Phase Transformers Chapters 14 6 - Construction and principles of operation
- Ideal transformer and polarity dots
- Impedance transformation property
- Practical (real) transformers
- Circuit model of a real transformer and approximate
models
- Open-circuit and short-circuit tests for determination of
circuit model parameters
- Voltage regulation and efficiency
Induction (Asynchronous) Chapters 16 6 - Construction and principles of operation:
Machines - Types: squirrel-cage and wound rotors
- Review of three-phase power
- The concepts of rotating field and synchronous speed
- The concepts of slip and slip frequency
- Circuit model and approximate models
- Mathematical model and torque-speed curve
(characteristic)

Power-Electronic Control of DC
and AC Machines
Synchronous Machines
- Effects of rotor resistance and excitation frequency
- Power flow within the induction machine
- Classes and various load conditions
- Speed control techniques
Lecture Notes 7 - The concepts of switched-mode power processing,
on D2L Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM), and averaging
- Power semiconductor switches: the diode, BJT,
MOSFET, and IGBT
- Two-quadrant chopper, and four-quadrant chopper (H
Bridge)
- DC-to-AC converters and sinusoidal PWM
- Single-phase and three-phase diode rectifiers
Chapters 16 2 - Construction and principles of operation
- Types: round-rotor and salient-rotor
- Circuit model and parameters
- Brushless DC motors

Schedules of Lectures (approximate and subject to refinements without prior notice)

Week Week Topic

1 Jan 8 Introduction (1 hr) + Electromagnetism (2 hrs)

2 Jan 15 Electromagnetism (3 hrs)

3 Jan 22 DC Machine (3 hrs)

4 Jan 29 DC machine (3 hrs)

5 Feb 5 DC machine (3 hrs)

6 Feb 12 Transformer (3 hrs)

7 Feb 19 Study week (No lecture or tutorials)

8 Feb 26 Midterm Test (No Lecture or tutorials)

9 Mar 5 Transformer (3 hrs)

10 Mar 12 Induction Machine (3 hrs)

11 Mar 19 Induction Machine (3 hrs)

12 Mar 26 Induction Machine (3 hrs)

13 Apr 2 Power Electronics (3 hrs)

14 Apr 9 Power Electronics (3 hrs)

Laboratory/Tutorials
Tutorial (ENG 310) Lab (ENG 309)

Week of Jan 8 - -

Week of Jan 15 Electromagnetism -

Week of Jan 22 Electromagnetism -

Week of Jan 29 DC Machines -

Week of Feb 5 - Lab 1 (DC Machines)

Week of Feb 12 Transformers

Week of Feb 19 Study Week Study Week

Week of Feb 26 Midterm Midterm

Week of Mar 5 - Lab 2 (Transformers)

Week of Mar 12 Induction Machines -

Week of Mar 19 - Lab 3(Induction Machines)

Week of Mar 26 Induction Machines -

Week of Apr 2 - Lab 4 (Power Electronics)

Week of Apr 9 Power Electronics

Important Notes

1. All of the required course-specific written reports will be assessed not only on their technical/academic merit,
but also on the communication skills exhibited through these reports.

2. All assignment and lab/tutorial reports must have the standard cover page which must be signed by the
student(s) prior to submission of the work. Submissions without the cover page will not be accepted. The
cover page can be found on the departmental web site: Standard Assignment/Lab Cover Page

3. Should a student miss a mid-term test or equivalent (e.g. studio or presentation), with appropriate
documentation, a make-up assessment may be scheduled. Alternatively, the weight of the missed work is
placed on the final exam, or another single assessment. This may not cause that exam or assessment to be
worth more than 70% of the student’s final grade. If a student misses a scheduled make-up test or exam, the
grade may be distributed over other course assessments even if that makes the grade on the final exam
worth more than 70% of the final grade in the course. Make-up assessments cover the same material as
the original assessment but need not be of an identical format.

4. Students who miss a final exam for a verifiable reason and who cannot be given a make-up exam prior to
the submission of final course grades, must be given a grade of INC (as outlined in the Grading Promotion
and Academic Standing Policy) and a make-up exam (normally within 2 weeks of the beginning of the next
semester) that carries the same weight and measures the same knowledge, must be scheduled.

5. Medical or Compassionate documents for the missing of an exam must be submitted within 3 working days
of the exam. Students are responsible for notifying the instructor that they will be missing an exam as soon
as possible.
 6. If a student is requesting accommodation due to a religious, aboriginal and/or spiritual observance,
he or she must submit a Request for Accommodation of Student Religious, Aboriginal, and Spiritual
Observance AND an Academic Consideration form within the FIRST TWO WEEKS OF CLASSor, for a
final examination, within two weeks of the posting of the examination schedule. If the required
absence occurs within the first two weeks of classes, or the dates are not known well in advance as they are
linked to other conditions, these forms should be submitted with as much lead time as possible in advance
of the required absence.
Both documents are available at http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/forms/relobservforminstr.pdf. Full-time or
part-time degree students must submit the forms to their own program department or school.

7. The results of the first test or mid-term exam will be returned to students before the deadline to drop an
undergraduate course in good Academic Standing.

8. Students are required to adhere to all relevant University policies including:

 Undergraduate Grading, Promotion and Academic Standing:
http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/pol46.pdf
 Student Code of Academic Conduct: http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/pol60.pdf
 Student Code of Non-Academic Conduct: http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/pol61.pdf
 Undergraduate Academic Consideration and Appeals: http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/pol134.pdf
 Examination Policy: http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/pol135.pdf
 Course Management Policy: http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/pol145.pdf
 Accommodation of Student Religious, Aboriginal and Spiritual Observance:
http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/pol150.pdf
 Establishment of Student E-mail Accounts for Official University Communication:
http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/pol157.pdf

9. Students are required to obtain and maintain a Ryerson e-mail account for timely communications between
the instructor and the students.

10. Any changes in the course outline, test dates, marking or evaluation will be discussed in class prior to being
implemented.

11. Assignments, projects, reports and other deadline-bound course assessment components handed in past
the due date will receive a mark of ZERO. Marking information will be made available at the time when such
course assessment components are announced.

12. If you have taken the course previously and are currently looking to get a laboratory exemption, then you
must fill out this form: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/guides/ECE-LabExemptionForm.pdf

Approved by: _______________________________ Date ________________________________

Course Instructor

Approved by: _______________________________ Date ________________________________

Associate Chair or Program Director