A stator for an electromagnetic machine includes a plurality of bus bars of copper, each extending parallel to one another between a first end and a second end. A first circuit board abuts the first end of the bus bars and includes a first substrate and a first electrically conductive layer disposed thereupon with a plurality of first contact terminals in physical and electrical communication with each of the bus bars. A similar second circuit board abuts the second end of each of the bus bars and includes a second substrate and second contact terminals in physical and electrical communication with each of the bus bars. The substrates of the circuit boards are electrical insulators and are good conductors of heat. A heat sink abuts each of the substrates of the circuit boards for removing heat from the circuit boards and from the bus bars.