Professor

Mircea M. RADULESCU


Current position: Full Professor of Electric Traction and Small Electric Motors at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Mail address:

Small Electric Motors and Electric Traction (SEMET) Group

Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
P.O. Box 345, RO - 400110 Cluj-Napoca 1, Romania

Telephone:

Fax:

(+40)-264-401-829, (+40)-264-401-421, (+40)-264-401-214

(+40)-264-592-055

E-mail: Mircea.Radulescu@mae.utcluj.ro

 

 

Born on September 4, 1954 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania; married, one son and one daughter.

 

 

 

1973 - 1978:

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

1978:

Dipl.-Ing. degree (M.Sc.) with honours in Electrical Engineering from the Technical of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

1993:

Dr.-Ing. degree (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Romania.


 

 

 

 

1978 - 1983:

Development Engineer for Electromechanical Systems at the Railway Rolling-Stock Co. Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

1983 - 1990:

Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

1990 - 1993:

Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

1993 - 1997:

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Since 1997:

Full Professor of Electric Traction Systems and Small Electric Motors at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca.

Since 2000:

Ph.D. Advisor in Electrical Engineering and Head of the Small Electric Motors and Electric Traction Group.


 

 

1990 - 1991:

Research Associate at the Laboratory of Electromechanics and Electrical Machines, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland.

1992 - 1993:

Visiting Researcher (French Government Grant) at the Laboratory of Electrical Engineering of Grenoble, Polytechnic National Institute of Grenoble, France.

August 1997:

Invited Professor at Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Electromechanics, Finland to give lectures in the Postgraduate Course Electronically-Commutated Small and Miniature Motors.

October 1999:

Invited Professor ('Gastprofessor') at the Institut fur Elektrische Maschinen, Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, Germany.

December 1999 & February 2001:

Visiting Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Akron, OH, USA.

March 2000:

Invited Professor at the Faculta di Ingegneria, Universita degli Studi di Cassino, Italy.

November - December 2002: Invited Professor at the Université 'Pierre et Marie Curie' (Paris 6), France.
March - April 2003: Invited Professor at the Université de Picardie 'Jules Verne' Amiens, France
November 2003 & January 2004: Invited Professor at the Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France
February 2006: Invited Professor at the Ecole Centrale de Lille, France

  Research interests:
  • CAD of electromechanical devices
  • field analysis of electromagnetic structures
  • design and control of small electric motors
  • actuators and mechatronic drives
  • design, control and EMC of electric traction systems
  • ferrohydrodynamics

 

 

 

 

Professional affiliations:

Since 1994:

Associate Editor of the international scientific quarterly "ELECTROMOTION", Switzerland - Romania (ISSN - 1223-057X).

Since 1994:

Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. - Industry Applications Society (IEEE - IAS) U.S.A.

Since 1999:

Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. - Industry Applications Society (IEEE - IAS) U.S.A.

Since 2004: Member of the International Steering Committee of the International Conference on Electrical Machines - ICEM

Since 1995:

Scientific Secretary of the Biennial International Symposium on Advanced Electromechanical Motion Systems - ELECTROMOTION (organized in cooperation with IEEE - Industry Applications Society).

1996 - 2000:

Scientific Secretary of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Since 1997

Institutional Coordinator at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania for the SOCRATES-ERASMUS European Educational Programme

Foundation Member of the Romanian Association of Small Electric Machines Builders (ANCEM).

Recipient of the Diploma of Excellency on the occasion of 50th anniversary of the Research Institute for Electrical Engineering (ICPE SA) Bucharest, Romania - Oct. 2000


Chairman of a Technical Session at the International Conference on Electrical Machines, Istanbul, Turkey, 2-4 September, 1998.

Member of the International Steering Committee of the:
  • International Conference on Electrical Machines - ICEM, since 2004
  • International Symposium on Advanced Electromechanical Motion Systems - ELECTROMOTION, since 1995
  • International Conference on Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipment - OPTIM, since 2000
  • International XII Symposium on Micromachines & Servodrives - MiS, since 2000
  • International Conference on Ship Propulsion and Railway Traction Systems - SPRTS, since 2001
  • International Conference on Electrical Machines, Drives and Power Systems - ELMA, since 2005
  • International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Electricity - ICATE, since 2002

Scientific Secretary of the National Conference on Electric Drives - CNAE 2004, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 23-25 September 2004.


 

Prof. M.M. RADULESCU's biography selected and published in 'Who's Who in the World', Editions 1997-2000, 'Who's Who in Finance and Industry', Editions 2002-2004, 'Who's Who in Engineering and Science', Edition 2004-2005 and in 'Who's Who in Romania', First Edition, 2002.


  SUPERVISED PH.D. THESIS REGISTER:

Florin LAZA: ’Contributions to the study of a three-phase doubly-salient stator-permanent-magnet flux-reversal motor’ (in French) – 11 April 2005 (Ph.D. thesis co-supervised by Prof. Mircea M. RADULESCU  and Prof. Gérard CHAMPENOIS from Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Poitiers, Université de Poitiers, France)

Gabriel CIMUCA: ’Flywheel energy storage system associated to wind-turbine generators’ (in French) – 02 December 2005 (Ph.D. thesis co-supervised by Prof. Mircea M. RADULESCU  and Prof. Benoît ROBYNS from Ecole des Hautes Etudes d'Ingénieur - HEI, Université Catholique de Lille, France.


 

LIST OF TAUGHT COURSES (since 1997):

  • SMALL ELECTRIC MOTORS AND ACTUATORS (for undergraduates);
  • FRACTIONAL-HORSEPOWER ELECTRIC MACHINES (for undergraduates);
  • SMALL ELECTRONICALLY-COMMUTATED MOTORS (for postgraduates);
  • ELECTRIC TRACTION (for undergraduates);
  • PROPULSION SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES (for undergraduates);
  • POWER SUPPLY OF ELECTRIC TRACTION SYSTEMS (for undergraduates);
  • ENERGY-EFFICIENT ELECTRIC VEHICLES (for postgraduates);
  • ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS IN ELECTRIC RAILWAY TRACTION (for postgraduates);
  • ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY IN ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (for undergraduates).

  Language skills:      English, French and German

  List of publications

 

Author: Gabriel CIMUCA ;  last updated 17-Jan-06