Fundamentals of electrical machines and drives course

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Lecture slides (click on preview picture)

The covered topics are:

• An initial overview of electrical machines and drives
• Fundamental electromagnetic principles and magnetic materials
• DC machines
• Transformers
• Rotating field theory
• Induction machines
• Synchronous machines

Exercise tasks (click on preview picture)

Exercise tasks including solutions (click on preview picture)

Exam history

Exam	Only tasks	Tasks with solutions
Summer 2025	Only tasks	Tasks with solutions
Winter 2024	Only tasks	Tasks with solutions
Summer 2024	Only tasks	Tasks with solutions
Summer 2024 (mock-up)	Only tasks	Tasks with solutions

Citation

See "Cite this repository" info box on the top-right or use the following BibTeX entry for citing it:

@misc{Wallscheid_Fundamentals_of_electrical_2024,
    author = {Wallscheid, Oliver and Hölsch, Lukas},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.14215440},
    title = {{Fundamentals of electrical machines and drives}},
    url = {https://github.com/IAS-Uni-Siegen/EMD_course},
    year = {2024}
}

Contributing

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• Ruff should be installed.

  pip install ruff

• It is expected that LaTeX Workshop extension and Ruff extension is installed so that formatting of the code is achieved automatically.