Electric Machines and Drives

Acknowledgments

Many people have contributed directly or indirectly to the journey that has led to the creation of this book. Graduate students who enrolled in my graduate course on electric machines and drives provided excellent feedback and contributed significantly to the enhancement of course notes that later on formed the nucleus of this book. Pieces of the works of many of my graduate students have also been used in this book. In particular, I thank Maziar Heidari, Maryam Salimi, Farhad Yahyaie, Jesse Doerksen, and Garry Bistyak for their excellent work and for allowing me to use them here. Mohamed Haleem Naushath read the entire manuscript and provided extremely useful feedback and suggestions. Steven Howell read a major portion of ...