If he likes getting his hands dirty, and on-site when the system is being installed, commissioned, etc.... the BSEE will likely give him more on his resume to achieve that. That's what I did, and it makes it easier to get your foot in the door at an engineering consultant/contractor, a major...
Busbar is correct. To get a motor that size rewound will be a significant cost. In addition, you will have the labour involved in removing and installing it, and the lost production associated with an OOC unit. You may want to consider retrofitting your system with a fully integrated solid...
Malz,
Open/Closed transition generally is in reference to automatic transfer schemes, where electrical loads can be fed from one of two, or three sources (generator, utility, transformer, etc).
When swtiching loads from one source to another, you can use either an open transition or a closed...