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)

Liviu SOMESAN
Ph.D. Student

Current position:	Full time Ph.D. Student, 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:	Liviu.SOMESAN@mae.utcluj.ro

Date and place of birth: the 4 th of April 1985, Bistrita , Bistrita-Nasaud ( Romania )

Education:

High School Graduate from INFOEL Technical College , Bistrita (2004)
Electrical Engineer from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (2009)
Master in Electrical Engineering at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (2009-)

Professional experience:

Full time PhD. student, Department of Electrical Machines, Marketing & Management, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (2009 - ). Supervisor: Viorel I. -A.

Courses, certificates & awards:

1 st mention at the Student Scientific Conference, Department of Electrical Machines, Marketing & Management, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (2009)
International Certificate in AutoCAD (2007)

Special skills:

Programming environments: MathCad, Matlab/SIMULINK, LabView (Motion Control).
General CAD: AutoCAD

Research interests:

Variable reluctance motors with permanent magnets on rotor
Analysis of a particular motor structure with different number of stator phases and winding pattern.
Developing an analytical design procedure and validate it via 2D-FEM calculation for different structures.
Studies on the cogging torque reduction considering different strategies.
Noise analysis and noise reduction strategy.
Construction of a functional model and test it.

Languages: Italian, English