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About me

Arash Shayan

I am a qualified engineer in electrical engineering and computer science as well as a qualified electrician for high-voltage systems in vehicles (BMW Group). I also have certification as an ISTQB Certified Tester.

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I discovered my fascination for electrical engineering in my childhood.

Back then, I took my electric toy cars apart to understand how they worked.

When I was seven years old, I was amazed by the power of an electric motor powered by a AA battery. Since then, the world of electric motors and electrical engineering has captivated me.

Shayan Engineering

Electric motors:
Childhood project meets innovation

I have had a fascination with electric motors since I was a child. At the age of 15, I came up with the idea that the use of microchips and transistors could enable more precise control of rotor movement in electric motors. I then began developing corresponding models in which each output of the microcontroller's pins was connected to an individual coil via a transistor. This meant that each coil could be energized separately and the rotor was set in motion precisely, without any commutator or alternating current.

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High school diploma and university studies

I completed my high school diploma at the Schiller-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main.

I studied electrical engineering and computer science at Bochum University and completed my masters studies as a qualified engineer.

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“Rising Bull” project at Bochum University

In 2008 I took part in a university project. Our task was to set a rodeo bull in motion in collaboration with the Münster Art Academy. Right from the start we noticed how differently engineers and artists think and act, but also how strong the attraction between art and technology is.

Art student Angela Schilling had depicted the size and weight of the rodeo bull differently than we had originally conceived. Over several months we worked intensively on programming and implementing stepper motors to realize the movements of the rodeo bull. However, when it arrived in the laboratory at Bochum University, we quickly realized that the stepper motors were not sufficient to move this huge object.​

We only had two weeks to develop the new product. After two weeks of almost sleepless nights, we changed our concept: We ordered new linear motors, developed the control technology from scratch and finally managed to set the rodeo bull in motion and successfully hand it over.

Diploma thesis

Since I was fascinated by the topic of electromobility, I wrote my diploma thesis in the field of power electronics in 2009. 

The topic of my diploma thesis was:"Conception and construction of power electronics up to 3 kW for ozone generation" 

In this context, I developed modern high-voltage power electronics that could be operated at very high frequencies of up to 20 kHz and a single-phase sine wave voltage of up to 400 V. The peak current should be 30 A and the pulse width should be in the range of 10 µs.

For these Thesis I designed and implemented both the software and the associated hardware.

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Hardware and sine voltage 
my diploma thesis

Professional experiences

Since 2012 I have been working in various functions at well-known OEMs.

You can find an excerpt from my projects at Projects.

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