Professor Paul Barendse

"(Deputy Head of Department) Drives, Power electronics and Condition Monitoring"

MSc(Eng) PhD Cape Town MIEEE


Research Interests

  • Electric Drives
  • Power Electronics
  • Condition Monitoring
  • Renewable Energy and E-Mobility

Postgraduate Supervision

Post-doc

  • Lindani Shelembe

PhD

  • Awingot Richard Akparibo, Single stage inverter-based pertubation technique for online condition monitoring of photovoltaic cells 
  • Simisi William Mosamane, Online impedance spectroscopy for extraction of diagnostic data from an energy conversion system using power electronics  
  • Nyakudarika Manuella Maria Amilha, Variable Flux Permanent Magnet Machine - Condition Monitoring; Application to Wind Energy
  • Obiora-Okeke Chinazom Albert, Condition Monitoring of Wind Generators

Masters

  • Ahereza Ian, Improving Electric Vehicle Powertrain
  • Devon Jordan Pugin, Investigating the effects on the battery caused by faults on the battery in an EV drivetrain
  • Mukendi Alonso Kalonji, Condition Monitoring of Inverter-Fed Permanent Magnet Synchronous machines
  • Mukwena Moserie Adolf, Fault Detection and Diagnosis Techniques for Wind Turbine Power Converters using Real-Time Monitoring Data

Current Undergraduate Teaching 

  • Introduction to Power Engineering EEE2044S
  • Energy Conversion EEE3091F
  • Electrical Machines & Drives EEE4123C