1. PI for InnovÉÉ-NSERC CRD grant for $345,000 (100%) for 3 years entitled “Novel Permanent Magnet Motor Topologies Using Advanced Magnetic Materials”, 01 SEP 2019-31 AUG 2022.

2. Co-PI with Ge Hua (PI), L. Lopes, A Athienitis, B. Lee, L. Wang, R. Zmeureanu, T. Stathopoulos for Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), “Concordia Field Research Facility for Buildings of the Future”, M$ 1.27 (Total), 2018 to 2020, my share $158, 750.

3. PI of NSERC/Hydro-Québec Senior Industrial Research Chair $400,00/year for five years entitled, “Design and Performance of Special Electrical Machines,” (Extended at no cost for one year till 2020) May 2014-April 2020.

4. PI of an NSERC Discovery grant for $41,000 for 1 year entitled, “Core Losses and Machine Design for Electric/Hybrid Vehicles”. May 2019-April 2020 (One year extension of the Discovery Grant to 2020).

5. PI (with Prof. L. A. C. Lopes and Prof. A. K. Rathore) of InnovÉÉ/NSERC grant for $681,900 for 3 years entitled, “Emulation of Electric and Hybrid Electric Motor Drives,” Sept. 2016-Aug.2019.

6. PI for NSERC Research Tools and Instruments, “Development of a 150 hp Dynamometer for Electric Vehicles, Micro-Grids and Renewable Energy Applications,” $150,000 (100%), May 1, 2018-April 30, 2019.

7. PI of an NSERC Discovery grant for $41,000 for 1 year entitled, “Core Losses and Machine Design for Electric/Hybrid Vehicles”. May 2018-April 2019 (One year extension of the Discovery Grant to 2019).

8. PI with T. Stathopoulos, L. Wang, C. Alecsandru for Ministère des Transports, de la Mobilité durable et de l'Électrification des transports, “Energy Efficiency and Deicing of Lafontaine Tunnel”, $710,000 (Total), February 2017-December 2018, my share $70,000.

9. PI for NSERC-Engage Grants for universities for $25,000 (100%), "A Template for the Synchronous Reluctance Machine" FEB-JUL 2018.

10. PI for Facility Optimization Program, “Autotransformer Voltage Supply Equipment for A 150 hp Dynamometer,” $35,000 (100%), May 1, 2017-April 30, 2018.

11. PI of an NSERC Discovery grant for $205,000 for 5 years ($41,000/year) entitled, “Core Losses and Machine Design for Electric/Hybrid Vehicles”. May 2013-April 2019.

12.  Co-PI of an NSERC CREATE grant (with 10 other members) for $1.3M for five years (10% = $26,000/year) entitled, “Research and Training via an Institute in water, Energy and Sustainability,” April 2012-March 2017.

13.  PI (with A. Awasti; A. Bagchi; W. Hamouda; L.A.C. Lopes; M.P. Packirisamy; S. Rakheja) Capital Research Innovation Fund., Category-1 for $131,750 (70%) for a year entiled, “Test Equipment for Renewable Energy, Microgrids and Electric Vehicles,” June 2015-May 2016.

14. Co-PI of FQRNT grant for $123,000(15% = $18,450) for three years entitled, “Lab on Chip (LOC) Based Micro Photosynthetic Cell (uPSC) for Characterizing bio-chemical-electro-mechanical interaction for Efficient Energy Harvesting,” April 2013-March 2016.

15. Co-PI with Prof. L.A. Lopes for Facility Optimization Program, “Fuel Cell,” $40,000/year (50%=20,000), January 2015-December 2015.

16. PI of an Auto21/TM4 grant (with Prof. A. Chandra, Prof. L.A. Lopes, and Prof. S. S. Williamson) for $92,000(25%=$23,000) for one year entitled, “Innovations in Motor Drive Technologies to Reduce or Eliminate the Need for Permanent Magnets in Electric/Hybrid Electric Vehicles,” May 2014-April 2015.

17. Co-PI (with Prof. C. Mulligan) of Mitacs and Hydro-Quebec Accelerate (Cluster) grant for $40,000 (50% = $20,000) for two years entitled, “Feasibility of a pressure retarded osmosis process for Quebec electricity generation,” Jan 2013-Dec. 2014.

18. PI of Research Contract for $17,250/year for two years with the Center for Energy Advancement through Technological Innovation (CEATI) entitled “Motor Efficiency Software Tool,” Sept. 2012-Aug. 2014.

19. PI of an Auto21/TM4 grant (with Prof. A. Chandra, Prof. L.A.C. Lopes, and Prof. S. S. Williamson) for $216,000 (30%=64,000) for 2 years entitled, “Innovations in Motor Drive Technologies to Reduce or Eliminate the Need for Permanent Magnets in Electric/Hybrid Electric Vehicles,” June 2012-May 2014.

20. Holder of the NSERC/Hydro- Québec Senior Industrial Research Chair in Energy Efficiency in “Electrical Machines for Small Scale Renewable Energy Production Systems” at Concordia University for five years ($1M from Hydro Québec matched with $1M from NSERC) from June 2009-March 2014.

21. Co-PI (with Prof. S.S. Williamson and Prof. L.A. Lopes) of a Facility Optimization Program, “Equipment for Upgrading the Research Infrastructure on Renewable Energy Concordia Vice-President, Research & Graduate Studies,” $40,000 (33%=$13,200), January 2013-December 2013.

22. PI of AUTO21 Connect Canada Internship, $12,500/six months for a year, “Multilevel traction inverter drive for Electric Vehicle propulsion application,” April 2012- March 2013.

23. PI of AUTO21 Connect Canada Internship, $12,500/six mothns for a year, “Designing a 50 hp synchronous reluctance motor based on the specific torque profile for traction applications,” April 2012- March 2013.

24. PI of an NSERC Research Tools and Instruments-Category 1 grant for $150,000 entitled, “Advanced Machine Design and Test Facility,” April 2012- March 2013.

25. PI of an NSERC Engage grant (with Prof. A. Chandra, Prof. L.A. Lopes, Prof. S. S. Williamson and TM4 Inc.) for $25,000 (25%=6,250) entitled, “Motor Drive Technologies for Electric/Hybrid Electric Vehicle,” Sept. 2011 – Feb. 2012.

26. PI of an NSERC Discovery grant for $39,400/year for 5 years entitled, “Energy efficiency and Renewable Energy”, April 2008-March 2013.

27. I of an NSERC Engage grant (with Prof. S.S. Williamson and Infolytica corp.) for $25,000 (50%=12,500) entitled, “High-frequency Core Loss Measurements in Electromagnetic Devices”, April 2011- Sept. 2011.

28. PI of an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement, Canada for $120,000 for 3 years entitled, “Energy efficiency and renewable energy”, April 2008-March 2011.

29. PI of a grant from ESKOM (with Prof Folly), entitled, “Renewable energy applications in power systems”, for R217, 711 Sept 2006-Aug 2008.

30. PI of a grant from the DOE (with S.Grimberg, S.Powers, E.Thacher and R.Welsh) entitled, “Energy economics of farm biogas in cold climates” for $256k, June 2006-May 2008.

31. Co-PI of a grant from the USDA (with S.Powers, E.Thacher, S.Grimberg and R.Welsh) entitled, “Environmental & Economic Performance of an Integrated, Digester-Cogeneration-Value Added Process” for 800k, May 2006-April 2009.

32. Co-PI of a grant from New York State (with S.Grimberg, S.Powers, Eric Thacher and R Welsh) entitled, “Dairy Farm Power and Energy from Agricultural Waste” for 1M, Jan 2006-Dec 2008.

33. PI of a grant from the DOE for $773,530, entitled”, Improved Design of Motors for Increased Efficiency in Residential and Commercial Buildings”, Jan 2005-Dec 2007.

34. PI of a grant from Advanced DC Motors (with S.Kumar, M.Cheng and J.Koplowitz as co-PIs) for $246,000, entitled, “PM Hybrid Motor for Light Traction Applications” for June 2005-May 2007.

35. PI of a grant (with R.Rengeswamy and A.Behal as co-PIs) from Nanodynamics for $280,000, entitled, “Fuel Specific Solid Oxide Fuel Cells”, May 2005-May 2007.

36. Co-PI of a grant from the TRB entitled, “Self-Powered Sensors and Actuators for Bridges”, for $75,000, July 2005-Dec 2006.

37. PI of a grant from Advanced DC Motors for $10,000, entitled, “Software-based machine design”, Sept-Dec 2004.

38. PI of a grant funded by ESKOM, through the University of Cape Town, for $30,000 entitled, “Motor Drive Applications for South Africa”, May 2003-Dec 2004.

39. Co-PI of a grant from NYSERDA for $45,000, entitled, “Methane Digester with Value-Added Processing”, June-Nov 2004.

40. PI of a grant from NSF for $76,000, for “International experience for American Students in South Africa”, September 2003- August 2004.

41. Co-PI with Dr T.Ortmeyer and Dr P.McGrath of a grant funded by the Office of Naval Research for $340,000 entitled, “Power quality study of an ungrounded electronically supplied distribution system”, Sept 2001-August 2004.

42. PI of a grant from the US DOE for $25,000, entitled, “Hybrid electric vehicle assessment”, May-June 2004.

43. PI of a grant funded by the motor consortium for $24,000, for motor loss calculations, July 2003-June 2004

44. PI of a grant funded by ESKOM, through the University of Cape Town for $13,000 entitled, “Motor Drive Applications for South Africa”, May 2002-Dec 2003.

45. PI of a grant funded by Delphi R&D for $35,000 entitled, "Switched Reluctance Motors for Electric Caliper Braking Applications", April 2002-Dec 2002.

46. PI of a grant funded by US National Grid for $5,000 entitled, Power Engineering Program", Feb 2002.

47. 47. PI of a grant funded by Delphi R&D for $35,000 entitled, “Noise calculation and reduction in switched reluctance motors”, May 2001-Dec 2001.

48. PI of a grant funded by ESKOM, through the University of Cape Town for $40,000 entitled, “Motor Drive Applications for South Africa”, June 2001-Dec 2001.

49. PI of a grant funded by Opto-Generic Devices for $45,000 entitled, “Motor drive design using optical graphical programming technology”, Nov 1999-Dec 2001.

50. PI of a grant funded by multiple companies to form a consortium to examine losses in magnetic steels. These include, Black & Decker, Inland Ispat, PDF Electronics, Eaton Corporation, Globe Motors, Laminations Specialty Corporation @ $4000/year each for a total of $24,000, starting June 2001.

51. PI of a grant funded by the ONR (with T.H.Ortmeyer and J.Carroll) for $136,935 entitled, “Augmentation of ungrounded power system power quality study”, 01 April 1998-31 March 2001.

52. PI of a grant funded by New England Electric for $5,000 entitled, “Power Engineering Program”, Feb 2001.

53. PI of a grant funded by General Motors Research and development for $8,750, entitled, “Noise calculation and reduction in switched reluctance motors”, Sept 2000-Dec 2000.

54. PI of a grant funded by General Motors Research and development for $90,000, entitled, “Noise calculation and reduction in switched reluctance motors”, Sept 1997-Aug 2000.

55. PI of a grant funded by ESKOM, through the University of Cape Town for $40,000 entitled, “Motor Drive Applications for South Africa”, June 2000-Dec 2000.

56. Co-PI with Dr T.Ortmeyer and Dr J.Carroll of a grant funded by the Office of Naval Research for $311,560 entitled, “Power quality study of an ungrounded electronically supplied distribution system”, Sept 1997-August 2000.
    

57. PI of a grant funded by New England Electric for $5,000 entitled, “Power Engineering Program”, Jan 2000.

58. PI of a grant funded by New England Electric for $2,500 entitled, “Power Engineering Program”, Jan 1999.

59. Co-PI of a grant funded by Rome Labs for $90,000 entitled, “Research, development and design of AGPU 2000”, Jan 1999-June 2000.

60. PI of a grant funded by Mohawk Innovative Technologies for $10,000 entitled, “High-speed Switched reluctance motor”, September 1, 1998-August 30, 1999.

61. PI of a grant funded by NASA for $22,000 entitled, “Evaluation and design of switched reluctance motor drives for electrical actuation”, Sept 1997- August 1998.

62. PI of an equipment grant funded by the ONR (with T.H.Ortmeyer and J.Carroll as co-investigators) for $111,000 entitled, “Equipment to allow practical investigations into shipboard power systems”, March 1998.

63. PI of a grant funded by New England Electric for $2,500 entitled, “Power Engineering Program”, Jan 1998-Dec 1998.

64. PI of a grant funded by Opto-Generic Devices for $9,000 entitled, “Research in motor drives”, 1998.

65. PI of a grant funded by Concepts ETI for $1,300 entitled, “Research in hybrid electric vehicles”, 1998.

66. PI of a grant funded by EPRI for $1,000 entitled, “Research in power quality”, 1998.

67. PI of a grant funded by Consolidated Edison of New York for $25,000, entitled, “Operation of induction machines in the presence of unbalanced supplies”, July-Dec 1997.

68. PI of a grant funded by the African-American Institute, through the Atlas program for a fellowship at Clarkson University for $21,245 for the 1st year and $14,000 for the second and $14,000 for the 3rd year for Mr. Gertze, a lecturer at Transkei Teknikon, to do his M.S. at Clarkson.

69. PI of a grant funded by New England Electric for $2,500 entitled, “Power Engineering Program”, Jan 1997-Dec 1997.

70. PI of a grant funded by General Motors Steering Systems for $15,000 entitled, “Industrial Studentship for the ECE Dept”, Sept 1996-December 1997.

71. Co-PI of a grant funded by Lockheed Martin for $11,550 entitled, “Clarkson University Video Course”, April 1996-December 1997.

72. PI of a grant funded by Teknokom Inc for $5,280 entitled, “Research and development of electronic test equipment”, January 1996-December 1996.

73. PI of a grant funded by EPRI and Entergy Corporation for $18,000 entitled, “Large process industry motor drive performance and power quality”, July 1996-December 1996. (Original grant was transferred to Clarkson University).

74. PI of a grant funded by EPRI and Entergy Corporation for $71,885 entitled, “Large process industry motor drive performance and power quality”, August 1995-December 1996. (Original grant was transferred to Clarkson University).

75. PI (with Dr Gill Richards) for $326,000 entitled, “Large process industry motor drive performance and power quality analysis”, January 1993-December 1996.

76. PI of a grant funded by EPRI and Entergy Corporation for $197 500 entitled, "Customized DSM Programs", July 1993-Dec 1996.

77. PI of a grant funded by Teknokom Inc for $18,000 entitled, “Precise position control of a sensor”, January 1996-August 1996.

78. PI of a grant funded by EPRI and Entergy Corporation for $51,380 entitled, “Survey, categorization and assessment of electric motors and drives and their loads currently in use in the process industry”, August 1995-December 1995. (Original grant was transferred to Clarkson University).

79. PI of a grant funded by the Navy for $77,000 entitled, "High power density motor drives for maritime applications", January 1995-December 1995.

80. PI of a grant funded by EPRI and Entergy Corporation for $450 000 entitled, "Potential for increased efficiency of

81. PI of a grant funded by the Louisiana State for $58,000 entitled, "Effects of supply discontinuities on motors and drives", June 1992-June 1994.

82. PI (with Dr G. Richards) of a grant funded by Mobil Refinery for $60 000 entitled, "Operation of motors in industrial plants exposed to voltage dips and discontinuities", August 1991-August 1993.

83. PI of a grant funded by the Central Louisiana Electric Co (CLECO) for $20 000 entitled, "Efficiency of switched reluctance and permanent magnet motor drives for utility applications", January 1992-Dec 1992.

84. PI (with Dr Gill Richards) of a grant funded by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), USA, and Entergy Corporation, LA (tailored collaboration) for $365 000 entitled, "Large process industry motor drive performance and power quality analysis”.

85. PI of a grant funded by Pakcentre Ltd, England for £4130 entitled, "Design of base-drive circuitry for bipolar power transistors", May 1990-August 1990.

86. PI of a Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) grant, England, for £55710 entitled, "Design and evaluation of speed and current controllers for a high performance, vector controlled, and permanent magnet synchronous motor drive", January 1988-July 1990.

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