Advice for PhD (Electri & Electro Engineering) please?

[meyra meyira]

Hi guys..

I am going to start my PhD in April however I still have to choose my field and supervisor...

In one side I can work with electric vehicles - decarbonising targets, meeting/minimizing energy consumption (distributed generation, PV, solar, storage)

In other side I can work with Multiphase Induction Motor Drives (Direct Torque Control techniques, fuzzy logic algorithms, neuro-fuzzy artificial intelligence stuff)..

I have some fair background with power system simulator tools (modelling/developing/simulating/analysing/calculating network parameters etc), but I don't want to do anything where coding (C++, Phyton, C#, JavaSc) is required as I have no interest in it. I can't tell if any of these topics require coding knowledge.

Any advice regarding this is highly appreciated.

 

[kellys_eye]

Avoid the 'decarbonisation' subjects - it's mainly political anyway.

You can't go wrong with robotics/AI and motor control - by the time you finish the course the industry will be gagging for experienced engineers in those fields.

I doubt you'll avoid having to learn programming (C) to some extent though - my son did electronics at Durham Uni and programming was an integral part of it although his thesis avoided it like the plague!

 

[meyra meyira]

Avoid the 'decarbonisation' subjects - it's mainly political anyway.

You can't go wrong with robotics/AI and motor control - by the time you finish the course the industry will be gagging for experienced engineers in those fields.

I doubt you'll avoid having to learn programming (C) to some extent though - my son did electronics at Durham Uni and programming was an integral part of it although his thesis avoided it like the plague!

It is true and I totally agree with you that future will be more based on electronic stuff but I really do not have extra patience to learn something which I don't like - or which I hate. I also know it may sound funny, but people have opinions and that's why everyone specialise in different things..

Thank you for your reply anyway sir !

 

[kellys_eye]

No problems - sadly there are practically zero subjects that will include everything you 'like' and nothing you 'hate' - the amount of programming will vary according to the subject, analogue electronics no so much, digital much more so.

If you want to do the crime, do the time.....