Workshop V:Electrical machines for aviation propulsion systems

This workshop, organized by Prof Michele Degano, have been held as online at VTT, Finland, on 19 June 2026. The topics that are covered during this workshop are 1-Introduction on Technology Trends for Aerospace Propulsion and Electrification – Prof Michele Degano 2-Optimisation Workflows and Strategies for Electrical Machines Design – Dr Mukhammed Murataliyev 3-Advanced Winding […]

Soft skills: communication and gender aspects in career life

The half-day online workshop focused on developing soft skills is presented by Prof. Ebrahimi on 17 April 2026. During the workshop, several important topics were discussed, including communication, gender awareness, cultural diversity, and team management in professional and career environments.

Project meeting 2025

The third project meeting of the EMByAM project took place in Prague on September 16 and 17. The 21 participants from Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, United Kingdom and Finland came together for a two-day event. On the first day, the doctoral candidates presented their latest research to the consortium. In the afternoon, participants were given […]

Flanders Make

At the Flanders Make 5th Scientific Conference for Machines, Vehicles and Production Technology doctoral candidate Mohamed Reda presented a poster on “Topology optimization for electromagnetic actuators”. At the event in Leuven, Belgium he was accompanied by scientific supervisors Prof. Sergeant and Dr. Ibrahim of University of Gent.

Secondments

Over the course of the past few months most doctoral candidates have finished their first of two planned secondments at other project partners. The secondments are part of the training programme and take around 1 month to complete. It helps the DCs to gain a broader technical knowledge and also to develop valuable soft skills […]

Young Scientists Presenations at IT CAS

On the 19. November 2024 the Young Scientists’ Presentations took place at IT CAS. Both doctoral candidates working in the Czech Republic gave a presentation. Mazahir Shah, who was working at IT CAS until October before switching to industrial parnter CARDAM presented his results from his 18 months stay at IT CAS. This included both […]

ICEM 2024

From September 1–4 the International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM) took place in Torino. Part of the programme was a special session on “Advanced Manufacturability of Electrical Machines Enabled by 3D Printing Technology” co-chaired by Prof. Sergeant of Ghent University, supervisor of doctoral candidates Mohamed Reda and Akbar Ajamloo. The EMByAM consortium contributed three papers: […]

Belgium Workshops

Following the project meeting, the EMByAM doctoral candidates took part in two workshops as part of the training programme. The first workshop covered magnetic materials and topologies of electrical machines with lectures given by Prof. Luc Dupre, Prof. Peter Sergeant and Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim of Ghent University. The second workshop took place at Dana Belgium […]

Project Meeting 2024

On September 17. and 18. the EMByAM consortium met in Ghent for the 2024 project meeting. In total 23 participants from Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, United Kingdom and Finland took part in the two-day event. On the first day the doctoral candidates presented their research, achievements and experiences during their first year in the project. […]

Visit at EMP Slavkov

Our doctoral candidates Mazahir (IT CAS) and Shaheer (CARDAM) and their supervisors visited the Czech manufacturer of electric motors and pumps EMP-Slavkov. EMP has a long tradition of manufacturing Asynchronous Electric Motors, Special Submersible Motors, and Electric Pumps. On top of that, the engineers of EMP have been visiting the same conferences with the scientists […]