Research Overview
My focus has been on establishing an experimental laboratory where research in the power systems, power electronics, renewable energy, and electric machines areas can be conducted in a manner in which undergraduate students can learn by practical hands-on experience, and they can contribute to the production of quality publications. I want to provide undergraduate students with a research environment where they can apply theory from the classroom to practical engineering problems that are encountered by engineers working in industry. I think that this approach will provide undergraduate students with the tools that they need to succeed in an academic or industrial career.
Research Sponsors
Dr. Leedy is grateful for the support (past and present) of the following funding agencies:
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Research Equipment:
The Leedy research group is housed in one laboratory space that is approximately 1000 ft2 on the second floor of the Engineering and Physics Building on the MSU campus. This space is primarily used as a research facility for the study of power systems, power electronics, electric machines, and renewable energy. This 1000 ft2 space is also used for student design projects for EGR 466 (Power Electronics), EGR 599 (Senior Research), and for EGR 499 (Senior Engineering Design II). Dr. Leedy's lab is equipped with four Hampden mobile consoles with power and instrumentation including: DC machine, synchronous machine, induction motor, AC motor control system, and Hampden dynamometer. The lab also has a 3 hp induction motor drive system with an ABB drive, and a Magtrol power analyzer with dynamometer. The Power Lab is equipped with various test equipment including the following: Keysight capacitance meter, Keithley semiconductor parameter analyzer (model 4200A-SCS-PK1), Tektronix 45 ps pulse generator, five Tektronix oscilloscopes (including one DPO7254C 4-Channel Digital Phosphor Oscilloscope), signal generators (including the AWG5002C Arbitrary Waveform Generator), DC power supplies, function generators, electronic loads, various voltage and current probes for Keithley and Tektronix equipment, a FLIR thermal imager, vibration meter, stroboscope, and Fluke hand-held multimeters. The lab has three AMERESCO Solar model 50J solar panels, and one Horizon H-2000 Fuel Cell. The lab also has an LPKF printed circuit board plotter, one Afinia 3D printer, and seven Dell Precision Workstations.