An improved approach to application-specific power electronics education. Curriculum development

McShane, E.; Trivedi, M.; Shenai, K.

doi:10.1109/13.941001

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“…The learning efficiency of the subject is better with the use of proposed simulation tools ; 9 The contents showed by the simulation tools are adequately with the subject contents;…”

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“…In this context, the computer is a fantastic machine, which can be used for several interest mechanisms to improve the educational process. The modern program computer combined with internet can provide for educators a powerful and effective mechanism for aid the PE courses [8,9]. Therefore, different kinds of tools were developed to help the education process, the most well-known tools are the MatLab® and Pspice®, which are able to simulate the power electronics converters with or without control techniques and others analysis [10,11].…”

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Power Electronics course: Analysis and evaluation of the educational software and the environment learning

Sampaio

Brito

Melo

et al. 2011

XI Brazilian Power Electronics Conference

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This paper presents the analysis and evaluation of the Power Electronics course at São Paulo State University-UNESP-Campus of Ilha Solteira(SP)-Brazil, which includes the usage of interactive Java simulations tools and an educational software to aid the teaching of power electronic converters. This platform serves as an oriented course for the lectures and supplementary support for laboratory experiments in the power electronics courses. The simulation tools provide an interactive and dynamic way to visualize the power electronics converters behavior together with the educational software, which contemplates the theory and a list of subjects for circuit simulations. In order to verify the performance and the effectiveness of the proposed interactive educational platform, it is presented a statistical analysis considering the last three years.

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“…The learning efficiency of the subject is better with the use of proposed simulation tools ; 9 The contents showed by the simulation tools are adequately with the subject contents;…”

Section: Surveymentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Power Electronics course: Analysis and evaluation of the educational software and the environment learning

Sampaio

Brito

Melo

et al. 2011

XI Brazilian Power Electronics Conference

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“…The need for curricular improvements to address the stringent requirements for power delivery has been realized decades ago by many scientists and engineers, among them is Dr. Krishna Shenai, who dedicated his career to improving power semiconductor research and education [3][4][5]. A survey of the electrical engineering programs, offered by the 200 universities ranked by the U.S. News and World Report, indicates that the number of programs that offer some courses in power semiconductor at the graduate and undergraduate levels is small [6].…”

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Integrating power semiconductor device courses in electrical engineering curricula, a review paper

Abdel‐Motaleb

2014

IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology

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The skills needed to build the next-generation of power semiconductor devices and to integrate them into power electronic systems require proper education and training of engineering students, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. To assess the current state of power electronics education, a study of curricular offering in power electronics in the U.S. universities is conducted. The study shows that there is a lack of course offering in semiconductor power devices with a lack of critical topics such as thermal management, temperature effects, reliability, power packaging, modeling, systems integration, and failure analysis. To remedy these deficiencies, new power electronics tracks/concentrations for undergraduate and graduate programs are proposed. The proposed curricular modifications are designed to be rigorous to meet the future needs of the power electronic industry, but flexible enough to be easily adopted by different institutions.

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“…This fact has a direct impact in the education structure, as there is an increasing demand of professionals to meet the industry requirements. As a consequence, an special effort has been made in recent years in order to develop a power electronics curriculum [1][2][3][4] and teaching methodology adapted to this context [5][6].…”

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Educational reconfigurable platform for courses on power electronics

Lucía

Burdío

Navarro

et al. 2010

2010 4th IEEE International Conference on E-Learning in Industrial Electronics

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Power electronics applications have become ubiquitous among electronic products today. As a consequence, a great increase on the demand of professionals by the industry has been observed. This has a direct consequence on the electrical and electronics engineering curricula, as they have to meet the requirements of an industry with an increasing number of products requiring power electronics solutions.Power electronics teaching is usually divided into three areas, as well as it is in other electronics knowledge areas: lecturebased sessions, circuit simulation sessions and practical training. The aim of this paper is to propose a specific tool for the practical training sessions. It is based on a reconfigurable educational platform which allows a fast experimentation with different power converter topologies. The proposed approach presents an improved hands-on training, which allows the student reinforcing theoretical concepts while facing some practical aspects as measurements techniques and safety issues.

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An improved approach to application-specific power electronics education. Curriculum development

Cited by 38 publications

References 6 publications

Power Electronics course: Analysis and evaluation of the educational software and the environment learning

Power Electronics course: Analysis and evaluation of the educational software and the environment learning

Integrating power semiconductor device courses in electrical engineering curricula, a review paper

Educational reconfigurable platform for courses on power electronics

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