Bernard Steyaert

Experience

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  EGA Associates, LLC.

  May 2018 - Jun 2019

  • Digital Media Manager

    Aug 2018 - Jun 2019

  • Intern

    May 2018 - Jul 2018
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  Columbia University Formula Racing

  Sept 2018 - Jul 2023

  Team Electrical Systems Advisor (ESA) for three seasons: 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-20232023: Team received first place for "accumulator inspection video", landing the team first in line for technical inspection of 2023 Formula SAE electric. Team placed 31 out of 61 attending teams, passing all 6 technical inspections. First year CUFR took an EV to competition.2021-2023: Assisted with electrical testing, integration testing, software/hardware integration testing. Primarily focused on accumulator, drivetrain. 2020: Lead electrical design of team's new accumulator. Designed/updated several systems with mixed high and low voltage. Worked closely with mechanical engineers to integrate liquid-cooled inverter and air-cooled Li-ion battery cells. Much care was to comply with FSAE rulebook. Show less Manage design, manufacturing, and testing of electrical systems for an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) and Electric Vehicle (EV) formula vehicle. Included oversight and decision making on all electric parts of both cars, including but not limited to: batteries, BMS, inverter, motor, shutdown circuitry, ground fault monitoring, sensors, and torque control. Lead team to attempt to finish team's first EV manufacture/integration/testing, Covid-19 hit mid-year, starting designing second EV remotely. Show less

  • Electrical Engineer

    Jul 2020 - Jul 2023

  • Chief Electrical Engineer

    May 2019 - Jun 2020

  • Shutdown Circuit Team Lead

    Sept 2018 - May 2019
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  Comcast

  May 2019 - Aug 2019

  Quality Assurance RF Intern Engineer

  Working in Comcast's Physical and Environmental radio-frequency interference (RFI) Lab writing reports, and testing equipment before it goes into the field.Contributed to Full-Duplex Testing on DOCSIS 3.1. , tested indoor/outdoor RF equipment including wifi routers, pods, set top boxes, modems, TV remotes, CMTS, Nodes, taps, etc. Tested S-parameters such as return loss, insertion loss, and port-to -port isolation. Testing/troubleshooting QAM and OFDM modulations in the 10kHz to 1.3 GHz range. Show less

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  L3Harris Technologies

  Jun 2020 - Aug 2021

  Electrical Engineer

  • US Secret Security Clearance sponsored by L3Harris• Support embedded system design work including VHDL development for Xilinx, Altera, and Microsemi families of FPGAs.• Develop and edit circuit schematics with OrCad/Altium development tools and perform circuit simulation with PSPICE software.• Implement digital telemetry interfaces to A/D converters and analog sensors.• Provide system test and evaluation support including input to test plans and procedures.

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  Columbia University in the City of New York

  Aug 2021 - now

  Graduate Researcher

  M.S./Ph.D. track in Electrical Engineering in the Motor Drives and Power Electronics Lab (MP Lab). Anticipated Graduation: August 2025Research interests include control optimization for various inverter topologies, permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSM), wound rotor synchronous machines (WRSM), and induction motors for electrified transportation and grid technologies.Experience with motor control from beginning to end: theory, simulation, hardware experiments.Published at the following conferences:-IECON 2021 -ITEC 2022-SDEMPED 2023-IECON 2024-APEC 2025Published in the following journals:-Transactions on Industrial Electronics-Transactions on Vehicular Technology-EnergiesSoftware: Matlab, Simulink, PLECS, MPT3, DSPACE suite, KiCADOptimization: YALMIP, CVXHardware: C2000, DSPACELab website link:https://mplab.ee.columbia.edu/Google Scholar link:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Foo8pBYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Show less