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[gravatar email=”oconnell@pcka.com” class=”alignleft” size=”96″ default=”https://pcka.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/gravatar.jpg”]Tim O’Connell received a BA, summa cum laude, in Physics from Carleton College in Northfield, MN in 2003 and MSEE and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He is presently a Senior Engineer with PCKA, where he is the lead engineer in charge of adaptive power and thermal management system (APTMS) model integration for the Air Force Integrated Vehicle and Energy Technology (INVENT) next generation fighter aircraft program.  Previously at PCKA, he has modeled and simulated bidirectional power converter architectures for use in aircraft electrical accumulator units (EAU). His research interests include electromagnetic simulation, and the design, modeling, simulation and control of electric machinery and drive systems.  At UIUC, he won the Grainger Outstanding Power Student Award in 2005, held the Sargent and Lundy Distinguished Power Student Fellowship in 2005-06, and was named on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent in 2007 for his teaching assistant duties for the electrical machinery course.

Selected Publications

  1. T. C. O’Connell, P. T. Krein, M. Yilmaz, A. Friedl, “On the Feasibility of Using Large-Scale Numerical Electric Machine Field Analysis Software in Complex Electric Drive System Design Tools,” 11th IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL ’08), Zurich, Switzerland, August 18-20, 2008.
  2. T. C. O’Connell and P. T. Krein, “Calculating the Induced Currents in Induction Machines Using Schwarz-Christoffel Mapping,” Electrical Insulation Conference, October 2007, Nashville, TN.
  3. T. C. O’Connell, P. T. Krein, “The Schwarz-Christoffel Analytical Method Applied to Electric Machine Slot Shape Optimization,”  Proceedings IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC ’07), May 2007, pp. 341-346.
  4. T. C. O’Connell, P. T. Krein, “A Preliminary Investigation of Computer-Aided Schwarz-Christoffel Transformation for Electric Machine Design and Analysis,” 10th IEEE Workshop on Computers in Power Electronics (COMPEL ’06), July 2006, pp. 166-172.
  5. T. C. O’Connell, P. T. Krein, “Development of a First-Principles Design Method for Electromechanical Systems and a Linear Induction Machine,” Proceedings IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC ’05), May 2005, pp. 474-480.
  6. T. C. O’Connell, P. T. Krein, J. T. Mossoba, “Symbolic Analysis with Mathematica in Power Electronics and Electromechanical Systems,” 9th IEEE Workshop on Computers in Power Electronics (COMPEL ’04), August 2004, pp. 133-139.

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