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After a long year of mostly interacting at a distance, it was great to see my team of current and newly added members in person!

David was awarded a Public Service Fellowship through the Wisconsin Institute for Science Education and Community Engagement (WISCIENCE) with which he will be able to incorporate issues of public concern with his research. Specifically, David is interested in energy and …

2020 was a hard year for everyone, with all hands on deck to help each other out.   (Hence there hasn’t been any posts until now, the website is fairly low priority.)  Despite the hardships, there …

Congratulations to Dr. Skyler Hagen on successfully defending his thesis:  “An Integrated Capacitive Brushless Excitation System for Wound Field Synchronous Machines Using Low-Cost Printed Circuit Boards.”  

I did this talk for the Wednesday Night at the Lab seminar series, where the general public attends a lecture by a faculty member to learn about their research at UW – Madison. This talk …

Aditya’s thesis is titled: “Torque Modulation and Self-Sensing for Separately Excited Electrostatic Machines.” Congratulations Dr. Ghule!

It was a busy conference this year!  The group had a record 7 papers this year. Knippel; M. Tisler; D. C. Ludois, “Printed Circuit Board Structural Properties and Spiral Groove Trace Conductors for Hydrodynamic Gap …

Zongfu, Mikhail and I received our tenure notification letters today.  We’re thrilled!  …And also certain we will be rewarded with more things to do…  On Wisconsin!

Congratulations to Ryan Knippel, Andy Schroedermeier and Tim Polom on their Ph.D.s  !