Enhance Electric Machines and Power Course

该项目解决了更好地装备新兴的工程技术人员的关键需求，这些技术技能与工业电力电子和机器驱动器的最新进展有关。预计这将有助于缩小技术和通信领域的能力差距。 NSF支持的格林菲尔德联盟（NSF-GC）的多媒体团队与该PI合作，开发了几个可视化和仿真示例，作为制造课程电机项目的一部分。这个项目增强了这些多媒体组件中的几个，并将它们改编成“电机和电力”，一个高级的核心课程在工程技术（DET）在韦恩州立大学（WSU）的司。驱动器实验，而不是仅仅对单个机器进行表征研究，是为了提供与行业相关的实践经验。基于有限元的可视化是为了观察导致机器功能的基本现象。 由于不同的几何形状和材料的磁通分布可以观察到。基于Pspice/Saber的交互式仿真类型的动画示例有待进一步开发，以使概念清晰并观察电机故障的后果。Authorware/Flash动画示例旨在让学生更好地理解滑差和功率因数校正等概念。装备这门课程的传统提供与这些多媒体组件的实现，预计将传授更好的学生学习。该项目对教育界的影响非常大。 WSU-DET的所有电气、机电和制造技术学生都将从该项目中受益。其中几个组件将在底特律地区的K-12学生访问期间使用工程师的一天，K-C-P计划和开放日。传播包括出版物和在会议上演示。在该司的网页上提供已编制的材料，预计将引起其他工程机构的兴趣和使用。

This project addresses the critical need of better equipping the emerging engineering technologists with technical skills that are current with the recent advances in industrial power electronics and machine drives. This in turn is expected to help close competency gaps in both technical and communication areas. The multimedia team of the NSF-supported Greenfield Coalition (NSF-GC), working with this PI, developed several visualization and simulation examples as part of a project in electric machines for a manufacturing curriculum. This project enhances several of these multimedia components and adapts them into the 'Electric Machines and Power', a senior-level core course at the Division of Engineering Technology (DET) at Wayne State University (WSU). Drive experiments, instead of mere characterization studies on individual machines, are to provide industry-relevant hands-on experience. Finite element based visualizations are to enable observation of fundamental phenomena that cause machine functionalities. Flux distributions due to differing geometry and material can be observed. Pspice/Saber-based interactive simulation types of animation examples are to be developed further in order to enable concept clarity and observation of aftermath of motor faults. Authorware/Flash animation examples are targeted towards better student understanding of concepts such as slip and power factor correction. Equipping the traditional offering of this course with these multimedia components implemented is expected to impart better student learning. The impact of the project on the educational community is very significant. All electrical, electromechanical, and manufacturing technology students at WSU-DET will benefit from this project. Several of the components are to be used during Detroit area K-12 student visits during Engineer's day, K-C-P program and Open house. Dissemination includes publications and demonstrations at conferences. The provision of the developed material on the division's web page is expected to trigger interest from and use by other engineering institutions.