Dr Martin Foster

Senior Lecturer

email : m.p.foster@sheffield.ac.uk

tel: +44 (0) 114 222 5392

BEng. Electronic Engineering 1998, MSc. (Eng.) Control Systems 2000, PhD `Analysis and Design of High Order Resonant Power Converters´ 2003


Between 1999 and 2000 had brief spell in industry working for EP&IC Systems Ltd developing microcontroller-based data acquisition systems, instrumentation and batching controllers for the manufacturing industry.

Responsibilities

Lecturer for 2 undergraduate courses

• EEE115 Systems Engineering
• EEE340 Analogue and Switching Circuits

Supervisor for 3 laboratory assessments

• FYGER – First Year Great Egg Race
• AC circuits (EEE and Biomed)
• Transformers (Aerospace)

Graduate Admissions Selector

Research Interests

• Modelling, analysis and design of switching power converters (inc. SMPS, multilevel converters & matrix converters)
• Novel control systems for resonant power supplies
• Power electronic packaging and thermal management
• Lightweight energy transformation components (i.e. piezo-electric transformers)
• Evolutionary computing techniques for power supply design and controller optimisation
• Intelligent embedded systems
• Controllers for micro air vehicles

Additional information

Referee for learned society journals

• IEE Electric Power Applications
• IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Committee member at South Yorkshire Branch of the IEE