From the vehicle brief to a finite-element check, with one running case carried through every step. A course for engineering teams, a companion book, and the tools that carry your numbers from one step to the next.
The motor is sized for peak torque, but on the test cycle it works almost entirely at light load, where its efficiency sets how much battery and fuel the car must carry.
Go from a vehicle brief to torque, speed and main dimensions, choose the topology and materials, check what the motor asks of the inverter and cooling, and verify it in FEMM.
For engineers who specify, source or design traction motors and must speak the motor designer's language. Groups carry one running case through every session and defend their design at the end.
A textbook route through traction motor design for final-year and master's students: one worked case from the vehicle to the finite-element check, with problems at every chapter.
Each step stands on its own, and each leads to the next. The book and the tools share the course’s running case and design card.
About 290 pages in six parts: the method, worked examples, problems with answers, the design card and public benchmark data.
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Size, compare, choose, check and review: five tools in the browser and the FEMM Torque Lab for Windows, each saving the same design card.
Sizing Calculator free nowGroups size, choose and check their own motor with the tools, build it in FEMM, and defend it in a design review. Every participant gets the book and all six tools.
Book and tools includedEach tool opens the design card saved by the one before, so your numbers carry from the vehicle to the finite-element check. The Sizing Calculator is free to use now. The other five come with the course and with the book. Click a screenshot to enlarge it.
From the vehicle data and your choices to torque, speed and main dimensions, with every target checked as you type.
Screens eight motor topologies against your rating, with weights and scores you can edit, and shows whether the winner survives other weightings.
Picks the electrical steel, magnet grade and winding, shows the losses and temperature margins, and estimates the material cost.
What the motor asks of the inverter and the cooling: current, fault behaviour, losses, hot spots, noise and rotor stress.
A Windows app that builds one pole of your motor in FEMM and reads its flux linkage, torque, voltage limit and ripple.
Opens up to four design cards side by side against the targets and a reference design, for the design review.
The course, the book and the tools follow the same order, so a number found in one carries straight into the next.
Designing an EV Traction Motor: From Vehicle Brief to Finite-Element Validation is the course written out as a design reference. It follows one running case through six parts, and every number in it carries its status label.
| For | Edition | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Everyone | Preview34 pages: the contents, the preface, the running case and data labels, Chapter 3 in full and the blank design card. | Free download |
| Lecturers | Inspection copyThe full book to judge it for a course: view-only, with your name on every page, for a limited time. | On request |
| Course participants | Trainee editionThe full book inside the course site, with the participant's name on every page. | With the course |
| Individual readers | Reader editionThe full book in your own account, with your name on every page, and the companion tools. | In preparation |
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Manufacturing and Mechatronic Engineering Technology, UMPSA · Head of EMDLab
His research is the design of electric machines for vehicles: synchronous reluctance and PM-assisted synchronous reluctance motors, and hairpin-wound traction motors. The course and the book pass on the method he uses in that work, with the finite-element models built in the open-source FEMM.
Two mornings of sessions and a design review, the slides and worksheets, all six tools for every participant, and the book in its trainee edition, with the participant's name on every page.
A web browser for the tools. The FEMM Torque Lab runs on Windows with FEMM 4.2, which is free. Nothing else is needed.
Two mornings: five sessions and a design review. We run it at your site for your team, or at EMDLab, UMPSA.
Automotive and motor engineers who specify, source, test or design traction motors, with a degree in electrical or mechanical engineering. No prior motor design experience is assumed.
Yes, ask us. The method is the same; the inputs change. The standard course uses a B-segment range-extended car.
It is in preparation. Download the free preview now, and leave your email with “The book” to be told when the book is out.
Every number carries a label: Confirmed, Inferred, Training target or Not available. Public benchmark motors carry their sources.
A quote for your team, a place on an open run, the book, an inspection copy, or a question. We reply within one working day.
WhatsApp+60 13-390 2485Fastest for quick questionsEmailmahizami@umpsa.edu.myFor proposals and quotations