Sources (So far)

Gutekunst, Mike. Electrical motors Scott Owen. 2 March 2011.

Hughes, Austin. Electric Motors and Drives: Fundamentals, Types and Applications. Elsevier, May 22, 2010.

Rafi, Najam. Basics of AC Motors. 18 Febuary 2011 http://www.scribd.com/full/6357919?access_key=key-xvhfklk5phgk5r4708n.

Siemens. Basics of AC Motors. 18 Febuary 2011 <http://www3.sea.siemens.com/step/templates/lesson.mason?motors:2:5:5#>.

   

Husain, Iqbal. Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Design Fundamentals. 2nd. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2011. 486. Print.   

 Ehsani. Mehrdad. Modern electric, hybrid electric, and fuel cell vehicles: fundamentals, Theory, and design. 2nd. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2011. 519. Print

Brain, Marshall.  "How Electric Cars Work"  27 March 2002.  HowStuffWorks.com. <http://www.howstuffworks.com/electric-car.htm>  07 February 2011.

Experts

James R Hendershot- electric motor & generator design expert with experience in AC Induction, PMDC, PM & SR Brushless motor design, manufacturing and development. He has designed hundreds of electric brushless motors. He gives tutorials on electric motor topics.

William Sturgeon- made the first electric motor in 1832. Now people might say he is too old or has been dead for a long amount of time but his first finding information is what we have to build off

Nikola Tesla- Made the first Alternating Current motor, which is the way we recieve electricity to our houses. His AC motor concept is in still use today despite how long ago his contributions were made. He has one of the leading principle designs I need to fallow.

Bob Lutz- one of the designers of the GM electric vechicles and brought back to life the concept of electric motors in vechicles. He is recent and designed numerous cars and knows how to make them work well. Made the Volt

John DeCicco- senior fellow for automotive strategies at the advocacy group Environmental Defense. He looks at the designers and look sat what they did and does breakdowns

The experts turn to eachother. Without eachothers findings and eachothers work no backround is known and everyone would have to discover there own material. ALso they turn to the money sourse for the money to figure out how to find more information to run test and experiments.

Academic Goals

I have many academic goals that I have to reach no matter what. One of them is not getting anything below a B in a class ever and so far I have maintained that. Another one that is harder for me to accomplish is getting a A in English and it varies if I get it or not.  Setting goals is always a good idea because it makes something there that you try to reach. If you have no standards or goals you wont do your best. That my opinion at least. This will be helpful in capstone to guide me through my process because there is a clear path where if I didnt have goals I wouldnt know exactly where to go. One goal for my upcoming week is to find at least 5 good resourses and have an outline for my paper topics.

My First Blog

So I would classify this at my first official day of work. I narrowed down my topic from electrical motors to figuring out how they work and where the future of electrical motors can and probably will go. I’m not really excited at all to research, but I am excited for the end result of building my own electrical motor.  I recently got into the OSU scholars engineering program and they focus a lot on a greener future so I want to know more about one possibility.  Also we built a small electric motor and that really interested me. The teacher had a standard design but I came up with a design that seemed better in my mind and later in the course others adapted to it.  As of now I have found two very long books online that have detailed information about how electric motors work so this will be a good fundamental learning to start off from.  Other than these two books so far it’s hard to find other articles or books from Google scholars due to the fact how new electric motors are to our society. If I look on plain old Google I find countless resources, but the problem is that I will have to check the sources, oh well guess I have to do it.