MagCanica offers exciting full-time, part-time, and summer internship opportunities for mechanical, electrical, and aerospace engineers to carry out a variety of challenging engineering projects while gaining high levels of responsibility early in their careers.
Below is an outline of the types of projects that MagCanica carries out and the areas in which we are involved.
Torque Sensing and Control
- Motorsport Application Engineering: Formula 1, IndyCar, NASCAR, ALMS
Driveshaft (halfshaft) torque
Clutch shaft (transmission input shaft) torque
Secondary shaft (mainshaft) torque
KERS Motor-Generator Unit (MGU) torque
Engine and transmission dynamometer torque
- Aerospace Application Engineering: Engines, Rotors
Turboshaft and turboprop engine torque
Helicopter main rotor torque
Helicopter tail rotor torque
- Research & Development
Metallurgy
Signal conditioning electronics and signal processing
Experimental testing
FEA and analytical modeling
Rate-of-Change (ROC) of Torque Sensing and Control
- Formula 1 Clutch shaft (transmission input shaft) ROC sensor development
- Formula 1 KERS Motor-Generator Unit (MGU) application engineering
- CNC Machine tool monitoring: signal processing
- Oil drilling tool preventive failure detection: hardware design and algorithm development
Mechatronic System Development
- Design of a Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) scanner system based on the Drag Force Method of detection for the pipeline industry
- Design of precision magnetizing equipment - hardware and control system design
- In-house speed dynamometer development and test engineering