Once a year the Universidad de Oviedo organizes a ceremony to commemorate the best PhD dissertations. On 2025 edition, Ahmed Abouzeid, past PhD from AECP, was awarded with the PhD extraordinary award, the highest recognition for the thesis "Optimization of Torque and Adhesion Control Capabilities for Railway Traction Drives". Congratulations, Ahmed!

Dr Marcos Orviz Zapico defended his PhD Thesis entitled "Control, Diagnosis, and Monitoring of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines Using Search Coils" supervised by Prof. David Díaz Reigosa and Prof. Juan Manuel Guerrero. The PhD dissertation was graded with the highest grade with Cum Laude Mention and proposed for Extraordinary Award. Congratulations Marcos!

Distinguished Professor Roberto Cárdenas Dobson will join the AECP research group at our University for a two-month period. Hailing from the University of Chile, he is renowned for his expertise in power converters and control of electric drives. His personal webpage can be accessed here.

Dr. Paul Alejandro  defended his PhD Thesis entitled "Stability analysis and Control Methods to Mitigate Low Frequency Oscillation in High Speed Trains" supervised by Prof. Fernando Briz and Prof. Juan Manuel Guerrero. The PhD dissertation was graded with the highest grade with Cum Laude Mention. Congratulations Paul!

AECP members and people from other research groups from the University of Oviedo, traveled to IEEE ECCE congress held in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. AECP members presented several research papers in the field of permanent magnet machine drives control, diagnostics power converters.

Dr. Ahmed Abouzeid defended his PhD Thesis entitled "Optimization of Torque and Adhesion Control Capabilities for Railway Traction Drives" supervised by Prof. Fernando Briz and Prof. Juan Manuel Guerrero. The PhD dissertation was graded with the highest grade with Cum Laude Mention and proposed for Extraordinary Award. Congratulations Ahmed!

Once a year the Universidad de Oviedo organizes a ceremony to commemorate the best PhD dissertations. On 2023 edition, Carlos Lumbreras Iglesias, past PhD from AECP, was awarded with the PhD extraordinary award, the highest recognition for the thesis "Alternativas de diseño y control de sistemas de microgeneración eólica". Congratulations, Carlos!

Ahmed Abouzeid, member of AECP reasearch group presents in a video an anti-slip control system for railways. This is a scaled roller-rig that emulates the behaviour of wheel-rail contact under several conditions: dry, wet, grease and more. It includes live monitoring and data analysis. 

AECP is collaborating with BLOWIND in the desing of a superconductive-based machine. The purpose of this project is to extend the rage of electric vehicles. Check the link for more information:

Blowind – Autonomía de vehículos eléctricos 

The electric drives lab has been equipped with a high power magnetizer for soft and hard magnetic materials, i.e. NdFeB, SmCo, AlNiCo, etc. and with a Hysteresisgraph AMH-500 BH for the characterization of permanent magnets and ferromagnetic material with high precision. 

Once a year the University of Oviedo organizes a ceremony to commemorate the best PhD dissertations. On 2021 edition, María Martínez, member of AECP research group, was awarded with the PhD extraordinary award, the highest recognition for the thesis "Torque Estimation in Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines". Congratulations, María!

Carlos Lumbreras PhD thesis dissertation entitled "Alternativas de diseño y control de sistemas de microgeneración eólica" was defended and received the maximum mark.

Cristina González PhD thesis dissertation entitled "3-Phase 4-Leg (3P4L) Converters Control for Massive Electric Energy Storage Systems Integration in Low Voltage Grids " was defended and received the maximum mark.

La Universidad de Oviedo desarrolla algoritmos para optiomizar la tracción de los trenes de alta velocidad.

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María Martínez received an IEEE Power Electronics Society award: the IEEE PELS 2020 PhD Thesis Talk Award (P3 Talk) for the thesis entitled "Torque Estimation in Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines".

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María Martínez became the first PhD student to defend her dissertation online. Her thesis, entitled "Torque estimation in permanent magnet synchronous machines " received the Cum Laude distinction.

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Professor David Reigosa was awarded for contributions to energy efficiency, machine design and control of electrical drives.

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AECP members and people from other research groups from the University of Oviedo, traveled to IEEE ECCE congress held in Baltimores, Maryland, USA. AECP members presented several research papers in the field of permanent magnet machine drives control and diagnostics and energy storage based on Lithium batteries.

AECP members traveled to IEEE SLED congress held in Torino, Italy, to present several research papers in the field of sensorless control of permanent magnet machine drives.

Once a year the University of Oviedo organizes a ceremony to commemorate the best PhD dissertations. On 2019 edition, Daniel Fernandez, a member of AECP research group, was awarded with the PhD extraordinary award, the highest recognition for the thesis "Control and supervision of permanent magnet synchronous machines using high frequency signal injection".

Dr. Takashi Kato is a currently a Research Manager of the Electric Vehicle system Laboratory at Nissan Advanced Research Center in Atsugi, Japan. AECP Research group collaborates with Nissan in the field of control and diagnostics of permanent magnet synchronous machines for traction applications in Electric Vehicles.

AECP members traveled to IEEE ECCE congress held in Portland, Oregon, USA to present several research papers in the field of permanent magnet machine drives control and diagnostics, control of power converters and energy storage based on Lithium-ion batteries.