Mark Stevens, Trenton Moeller, Spencer Willis

Northern Arizona University

NAU College of Engineering

Flagstaff, AZ

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Our project was sponsored by Motor Excellence, which is a startup company located in Flagstaff, Arizona involved in researching and developing a new class of electric motors and generators that dramatically improve efficiency and torque density, thus providing radically new electric machines. Unique in their design, these motors have a broad range of applications from automotive propulsion to industrial power generation, scalable in size from systems requiring less than one horsepower to thousands of horsepower. The partners who started the new company include David Calley, the inventor of the concept and founder of Southwest Windpower, Tom Janecek, a prototype specialist, and Michael Manson, who co-founded PetSmart.Motor Excellence desires this prototype because the machine they are currently using is not accurate to the tolerances that they wish to obtain. With greater control of the cores construction, they can predict with more accurately the motors output as well as maintain consistency from one motor to another.

 

By creating this machine, Motor Excellence can continue developing revolutionary motors with greater control of the cores construction, which are at the heart of each of their motors.

Flagstaff, AZ

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