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