Position : Lecturer (Electrical Engineering)
Telephone : 035 902
Email : mushenyaj@unizulu.ac.za
Office : Department of Engineering Admin Building, Richards Campuss
Biography:
Mr John Mushenya received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Copperbelt University (CBU), Kitwe, Zambia, in 2015, and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cape Town (UCT), Cape Town, South Africa, in 2018. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at UCT, focusing on the Design of Flux-Modulated Permanent Magnet Machines for Renewable Wind Energy Systems. Between 2015 and 2016, he worked as a Junior Electrical Engineer at Handyman’s Lime Company, in Ndola, Zambia. While pursuing his postgraduate degrees at UCT, he also worked as an Assistant Lecturer from 2022-2024. His research interests include Energy Efficiency Assessment of Electric Motor Drive Systems, and design of Advanced Permanent Magnet machines for electric transportation and renewable energy applications.
Lecture ‘s the following modules:
- Introduction to Engineering (5EEE112)
- Introduction to Power Engineering (5EEE212)
- Energy Conversion (5EEE331)
- Electromagnetic Engineering (5EEE311)
- Electrical Machines and Power Electronics (5EEE431)
Qualifications:
- B Eng. Electrical and Electronic Engineering (CBU)
- Msc in Electrical Engineering (UCT)
Honors/Awards:
- Recipient of the prestigious UCT Doctoral Package.
- 3rdPrize, WindAc Africa 2016 Building Bridges Award!B
Research interests:
- Current Interests: Design and Control of Advanced Permanent Magnet Electrical Machines for Direct-Drive Wind Energy Systems and Electric Transportation (Electric Vehicles). Research scope includes Analytical Design sizing, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Simulations, Design Optimization, Performance characterisation and Experimental verification (prototyping).
- Past Projects: Energy efficiency Assessment of Electric Motor-Drives to quantify the additional harmonic losses due to Pulse-Width Modulated (PWM) voltages and currents. The research critically analysed draft European (IEC) standards and provided valuable feedback to the relevant IEC and IEEEE standards committees to help refine future standards. As part of the research project, an Automated Efficiency Testing Platform was developed to mitigate the adverse effect of the human operator on Efficiency Test results. The project culminated into several IEEE conference and journal article publications.
Professional membership:
- IEEE, EIZ