A Modular Power Electronics Based Systems Laboratory for Undergraduate Power Engineering Curriculum Enhancement

该项目将在密苏里大学罗拉分校开设课程，采用其他机构在模块工程课程开发方面的最佳做法。每个单元都包含与工程相关的特定主题的背景材料和技术信息。这些模块还包含相关的模拟和视觉效果，用于以图形方式观察与技术信息相关的基本概念。使用模块化方法，课程将快速更新，以纳入新主题、纳入研究成果，并引入来自行业或其他大学的信息。在这个项目中，采用基于模块的方法来开发硬件实验，以培养本科生基于电力电子系统(PEBS)的设计。这些基于硬件的模块将用于本科生的电力电子和机械/驱动实验室，向学生介绍PEBS设计中使用的基本半导体器件、转换器拓扑、电机和控制技术。此外，它们还将用于高级选修的机器和驱动器课程和电磁兼容性入门课程，介绍系统稳定性、电能质量、机器和电力电子设备的高频寄生特性以及EMI/EMC缓解技术等主题。基于硬件的模块的目标是：1.为学生提供实验和环境，以发展设计和实施基于电力电子的系统所需的知识和技能；2.提供一种将教师的研究转移到本科课程的方法；以及3.通过让电气工程的其他领域的学生接触基于电力电子的系统设计的多方面领域来提高对电力工程的兴趣。为了实现这些目标，本科生和研究生设计的创新的硬件和软件由本科生构建并整合到教学模块中。结果将通过在线模块手册、电路原理图和模型传播给其他机构。

This project is to construct courses at University of Missouri-Rolla, by adapting best practices of other institutions in modular engineering curricula development. Each module consists of background material and technical information on a particular engineering-related topic. The modules also contain related simulations and visual effects for graphically observing basic concepts related to the technical information. Using a modular approach, courses are rapidly updated to include new topics, incorporate research findings, and introduce information from industry or other universities. In this project, a modular-based approach is adapted to develop hardware experiments to educate undergraduate students in the design of power electronic based systems (PEBS). The hardware-based modules are to be used in the undergraduate power electronics and machines/drives laboratories to introduce students to the fundamental semiconductor devices, converter topologies, electric machines, and control techniques used in PEBS design. In addition, they are to be used in a senior-level elective machines and drives course and an introductory electromagnetic compatibility course to introduce topics in system stability, power quality, high frequency parasitic characterization of machines and power electronics, and EMI/EMC mitigation techniques. The objectives of the hardware-based modules are to: 1. provide experiments and an environment for students to develop the knowledge and skills required to design and implement power electronics based systems,2. provide a means of transferring faculty research into the undergraduate curriculum, and 3. increase interest in power engineering by exposing students from other areas of electrical engineering to the multi-faceted area of power electronics based system design.To achieve these goals, innovative hardware and software that has been designed by faculty and graduate students are built by undergraduate students and incorporated into the instructional modules. Results are to be disseminated to other institutions through on-line module manuals, circuit schematics, and models.