Students, please listen up! Many of today’s electric motor designers are getting just a little bit OLD. (Never mind how I know.)
If you are mathematically inclined, like to draw, and think you might enjoy a career at the intersection of electrical, mechanical, software, and systems engineering, please consider studying the design of electric motors.
Link above is to a classic textbook in the field.
Lately I have been getting a lot of requests for leads, from recruiters looking for young talent that they all tell me is getting harder to find. I believe, as the best recruiters do, that demand in this field will be growing while materials and techniques for making better motors, better motor controls, and better electric storage devices are developed over the next few decades.
There is a whole history of sketchy legal issues with Z-Library and the associated projects in terms of copyright infringement. Feel free to research it yourself, but they are currently shifting domains on a constant basis to try and avoid/subvert DCMA and Google restricting search access. Not sure on permissions for this book either.
Particularly the legal status section will give you a good scope of what all occurred in each jurisdiction. Alot of stuff in the US
as with any piracy-adjacent project, it will be completely encased in various copyright law nightmares. personally, i believe that if not for commercial use, books should be free, otherwise paid. but, unfortunately if this became the system overnight, our non-ideal world would immediately take advantage of it. hell, textbooks already run into the hundreds of dollars, which is ridiculous considering their sell volumes
so for now, for the full time student who would like to read into something they find interesting, it makes more sense to pirate a book then to spend $190 on it.
Engineering textbooks, especially those in specialized areas in which classes are offered infrequently, have been relatively expensive for a long time.
Inexpensive, unauthorized copies of such books have been produced in China and some other places for an equally long time. More recently it has been feasible to make them available by unauthorized electronic means — same idea for a new century.
One result has been fewer US students learning the less popular topics.
this makes sense, as a low demand for such an expensive-to-produce (not as in the literal book but the knowledge within). but,
this doesnt make sense to me. if anything, having easier access to textbooks would enable more students to learn these niche topics, because having $$$ is no longer a barrier to entry.
hmm, but with a library you can run into issues like the number of books available, having to return and borrow again, etc. but sometimes it is worth the time spent to get the physical copy of a book.
this can also be a matter of preference. i just think its easier to load my calculus textbook in sioyek and view fullscreen, rather than use a free physical copy that my teacher lets us borrow for the year.
Prof. Hanselman’s text is very good. Another good one is by Kenjo and Nagamori (1984). Prof. Kenjo began as a motor engineer for TEAC tape recorders in 1964. A couple of years later, Nagamori became Kenjo’s first student. Nagamori founded Nidec and still serves as its CEO.
