HIPO · Integrated High-speed Power Systems for Industry and Mobile Applications

Integrated High-speed Power Systems for Industry and Mobile Applications

This Doctoral Network (DN) implements a multidisciplinary, innovative research and training programme bringing together different scientific fields and industrial participation to enable a new generation of Doctoral Candidates (DCs) to investigate and develop electric drives in the context of electrification in the transition towards zero-emissions. Electrification is one of the key assets in green transition and future sustainable world. While electrification offers one of the main solutions in reaching carbon-neutral societies, there is already now a lack of skilled persons in the field. Therefore, there is an urgent need to educate young highly skilled engineers with a breadth of interdisciplinarity on designing propulsion machines and power converters to become EU’s future leaders in power electronic systems (applied in renewable energy systems and electric vehicles - EVs). The proposed network is timely in meeting the challenges, bringing together the leading experts and providing best training opportunities to doctoral candidates (DC). This will make a step change in the EU’s key industry with potential impacts on other applications such as high-speed trains, electric vehicles, electric aircrafts and ships. Electrification of transportation (road, aviation, train, maritime) in modern society is of critical importance in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Transport needs to cut emissions by 90% by 2050. Thereby, electrification establishes an Innovation Union in the EU for smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth. High-speed technology enables high material and energy efficiency. Therefore, HIPO (integrated HIgh-speed POwer systems for industry and mobile applications) research and training programme will focus on providing Doctoral Candidates (DCs) with relevant knowledge, methods and skills across a wide range of disciplines around Electric High-Speed Drives. The unique structural innovation is to combine the design principles of thermal, electrical and mechanical sciences and to have engineering knowledge and modelling skills to design the energy supply unit taking into account in which machine it is connected. And vice versa, machine design experts shall learn to design machines in interaction with suppling power electronic control systems. This goal will be achieved by a unique combination of scientific research training, industrial internships and courses and seminars/workshops on scientific and complementary so-called “transferrable” or “soft” skills facilitated by a multidisciplinary, multisectoral and international consortium. The latest activities and the main achievements are presented in project webpages https://www.hipodoctoralnetwork.com/our-work.

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