Department of Electrical Machines, Marketing and Management

Staff of department

ACADEMIC STAFF

PROFESSORS EMERITI:
Dr. BIRÓ Károly Ágoston
Dr. Ioan-Adrian VIOREL
Dr. Vasile IANCU

PROFESSORS:
Dr. SZABÓ Loránd - Head of the Department
Dr. Gh. Alexandru CATANA
Dr. Doina CATANA
Dr. Mircea M. RADULESCU
Dr. Horia C. HEDESIU
Dr. Claudia MARTIS

ASSOCIATED PROFESSORS:

LECTURERS:
Dr. Anca CONSTANTINESCU-DOBRA

ASSISTANT LECTURERS:
Dr. Daniel FODOREAN
Dr. Dan-Cristian POPA
Dr. Nicolae Florin JURCA
Dr. Claudiu Alexandru OPREA
Dr. Stefan BREBAN

RESEARCH STAFF

FULL TIME Ph.D. STUDENTS:

Cosmina NICULA
MAGYARI Györgyi-Karola
Arthur Richard MATYAS
Dan PAUNESCU
Dan IRIMIE
Dan ILEA
Ioana BENTIA
Ana GAZDAC
Felicia SURDU
Raluca TRIFA
Ionut LAR
Adrian Augustin POP
Vlad PETRUS
Adrian-Cornel POP
Liviu SOMESAN
Emil PADURARIU
Rares TEREC
Virgil CHINDRIS
Ciprian HARLISCA
Petru HANGIU
Andrei FILIP
Mircea ARION

TECHNICAL STAFF

Ioan MOLDOVAN
(Laboratory Technician)

Former members of the department

POPA Dan-Cristian
Assistant Lecturer

Current position:	Assistant Lecturer, Department of Electrical Machines, Marketing & Management, Technical University of Cluj
Mail address:	Baritiu str. 26-28, RO-400027 CLUJ, Romania
Telephone/fax:	(+40)-264-401-827 / (+40)-264-593-117
Email:	Dan.Cristian.Popa@mae.utcluj.ro , dcpopa@yahoo.com

Date and place of birth: 7 th of August 1978, Satu-Mare (Romania)

Education:

Electrical Engineer from Technical University of Cluj (2002)
M.Sc. degree in Variable Speed Electrical Drives and System Integration specialization from Technical University of Cluj (2001-2002)

Professional experience:

Part-time Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical Machines, Marketing & Management, Technical University of Cluj (2003 - ). Supervisor: V. Iancu .
Assistant Lecture,, Department of Electrical Machines, Marketing & Management, Technical University of Cluj (2006 - )

Scholarships:

Research Stage at University of Bolognia (Italy), Department of Electrical Engineering, June 2006.

Participations at scientific meetings:

EMES 2004, Oradea (Romania)
SELIS 2005, Iasi (Romania)
SIELMEN 2005, Chisinau (Rep. Moldova)
MATEHN 2006, Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
MicroCad 2007, Miskolc (Hungary)
LDIA 2007, Lille (France)
SIELMEN 2007, Chisinau (Rep. Moldova)

Research interests:

Magnetic field computations in electrical machinesTransverse flux machines, variable reluctance machinesLinear motors
Transformer

Publications: 16

In refereed journals and periodicals (1)
In refereed proceedings of international conferences (10)
In University annals (5)

2004

L. Szabó, I.A. Viorel, V. Iancu, D.C. Popa , Soft Magnetic Composites Used in Transverse Flux Machines , Oradea University Annals, Electrotechnical Section, 2004, pp. 134-141. ISSN: 1223-2106. ( download ).

2005

D.C. Popa , V. Iancu, I.A. Viorel, A Comparison between Different Transverse Flux Motor Variants, Oradea University Annals, Electrotechnical Section, 2005, 162-166, ISSN: 1223-2106.
V. Iancu, H. Hedesiu, D.C. Popa , B. Tataranu, M. Gutman, K. Á. Biró : The Unbalanced Operating Regime of the Three Phase Induction Motor - Noise and Vibration Source , Oradea University Annals, Electrotechnical Section, 2005, Oradea, pp.142-145, ISSN: 1223-2106.
D.C. Popa , V. Iancu, I.A. Viorel, On the Transverse Flux Linear Motor Design , Proceedings of SIELMEN '2005 Conference, Chisinau (Rep. Moldova), pp. 800 - 803, ISBN: 973-716-230-7.
D.C. Popa , V. Iancu, I.A. Viorel, L. Szabo, C.A.D. of Linear Transverse Flux Motors , Bulletin of the Polytechnic Institute of Iasi, Tome LI (LV), Fasc. 5, Electrotechnics, Energetics, Electronics, 2005, pp. 79-84. ISSN: 123-8139. ( download ) .

2006

L. Szabó, D.C. Popa , V. Iancu, E. Kovács, F. Tóth , 3D FEM Models of Linear Electrical Machines Used in Fault Detection Studies , Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference MicroCAD '2006, Miskolc (Hungary), Section J (Electrotehnics and Electronics), pp. 89-94. ISBN: 963-661-710-4. ( download ) .
L. Szabó, D.C. Popa , V. Iancu, Compact Double Sided Modular Linear Motor for Narrow Industrial Applications , Proceedings of the 12th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (EPE PEMC '2006), Portoroz (Slovenia), 2006, pp. 1064-1069. ISBN: 1-4244-0121-6. ( download ).
L. Szabó, D.C. Popa , V. Iancu, E. Kovács, F. Tóth, On the Usefulness of Simulation in Designing a Permanent Magnet Modular Surface Motor for Advanced Mechatronic Systems , Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM '2006), Budapest (Ungaria), 2006, pp. 88-93. ISBN: 1-4244-9712-6. ( download ).
D.C. Popa , V. Iancu, L. Szabó, Linear Transverse Flux Reluctance Machine with Permanent Magnets , Proceeding of the International Conference on Transversal Flux Machines (ICTFM '2006), Changwon (South Koree), pp. 85-90, ISBN: 89-87898-13-5. ( download ).
V. Iancu, D.C. Popa , L. Szabó, M. Ruba, E. Trifu, Comparative Study on Linear Transverse Flux Reluctance Machines , Oradea University Annals, Electrotechnical Fascicle, Electrical Engineering Session, 2006, pp. 136-139. ISSN: 1841-7221. ( download ) .
V. Iancu, T. Canta, D.C. Popa , L. Szabó, Soft Magnetic Composites Used for the Iron Core of the Electrical Machines , Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Materials and Manufacturing Technologies, Cluj (Romania), 2006, pp. 125, ISBN: 973-751-300-2. ( download )

2007

D.C. Popa , V. Iancu, L. Szabó, Linear Transverse Flux Motor for Conveyors , Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Linear Drives for Industrial Applications (LDIA '2007), Lille (France), on CD: 188.pdf. ISBN: 978-2-915913-20-0. ( download ).
L. Szabó, I.A. Viorel, M. Ruba, D.C. Popa, Comparative Study on Different Variable Reluctance Linear Machine Structures (With/Without Permanent Magnets) , Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Linear Drives for Industrial Applications (LDIA '2007), Lille (France), on CD: 173.pdf. ISBN: 978-2-915913-20-0. ( download ) .
D.C. Popa , V. Iancu, L. Szabó, Modular Linear Transverse Flux Reluctance Motor , Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference MicroCAD '2007, Miskolc (Ungaria), Section J (Electrotehnics and Electronics), pp. 53-58. ISBN: 978-963-661-751-6. ( download ) .
D.C. Popa, V. Iancu, I.A. Viorel, L. Szabó, On the Design of the Modular Linear Transverse Flux Reluctance Motors , Craiova University Annals, Electrical Engineering series, vol. 31/II, n0. 31,, 2007, pp. 77-80. ISSN: 1842-4805. ( download ) .
D.C. Popa, V. Iancu: M-Phased Linear transverse Flux Motor in Modular Construction , Oradea University Annals, Electrotechnical Section, 2007, pp. 177-181, ISSN: 1223-2106

Special skills:

Programming environments: Matlab/SIMULINK
Finite Element CAD: Maxwell 2D/3D, Flux2D/3D.
General CAD: AutoCAD, Mathcad.

Languages: English, Italian, French