Faculty Workshop on Teaching of First Course on Power Electronics, Electric Drives and Power Systems Applications of Power Electronics; Arizona State University; January 2-4, 2003

2003年1月2日至4日在坦佩亚利桑那州立大学组织“电力电子、电力驱动和电力系统应用第一课程教学”的教师研讨会。本次研讨会旨在促进电力电子与电力驱动课程的教学，其目标如下：提供该领域最高质量的本科和研究生教育。激励和吸引有才能的学生。讨论最新的实验室与数字控制。促进这些课程的教学由专业的其他领域的EE教师。确定最佳实践，并从不同大学的经验中学习。研讨会将由亚利桑那州立大学和明尼苏达大学联合举办。在明尼苏达大学和亚利桑那州立大学，自1994年以来，正在积极进行电力电子学有关课程的改组。美国国家科学基金会资助的两个项目，即1997年的“电力工程教育的创新”和2000年的“基于dsp的软件可重构实验室，在全国范围内振兴电力驱动和电力电子课程”，为明尼苏达大学的这些努力提供了巨大的推动力。2002年1月3日至5日，在坦佩的亚利桑那州立大学组织了一次研讨会，在那里介绍了电力电子和电力驱动课程的新教学方法，并展示了新开发的硬件实验室设置。这次研讨会非常成功，有来自全国各地的大约125名注册者。在拟于2003年1月在亚利桑那州立大学举行的研讨会上，将展示本科生电力电子和电力驱动实验室装置的新重大发展。本课程将介绍根据先前工作坊的建议而发展的教学方法和改进的课堂讲稿。将为感兴趣的教师组织海报会议，他们将有机会描述自己在改进相关课程方面所做的努力。将安排由政府机构和行业专家组成的小组会议，讨论这些领域的挑战和机遇。由于功率半导体器件的进步，电力电子在电力系统中的应用成为可能，代表了电力电子领域的新前沿。这一课题在电力网络效率和安全方面具有重要的应用，我们将在本次研讨会上讨论这一课题的课程。作为研讨会会议记录的一部分，将分发海报演示文稿、完整的课堂讲稿、讲座透明度和研讨会期间讨论的模拟练习的副本。将提供充足的时间来评论课程材料和通过NSF资助开发的实验室。将讨论如何将课堂材料与模拟和硬件实验紧密耦合。将讨论以合作方式购置实验室设备和发展实验室实验的计划。

Faculty Workshop on Teaching of First Course on Power Electronics, Electric Drives and Power Systems Applications of Power ElectronicsIt is proposed to organize a faculty workshop on "Teaching of First Courses on Power Electronics and Electric Drives and Advanced Course on Power System Applications of Power Electronics" during January 2-4, 2003 at the Arizona State University, Tempe. This workshop is intended to promote teaching of power electronics and electric drives courses with the following objectives:Provide the highest quality undergraduate and graduate education in this field.Motivate and attract talented students.Discuss up-to-date laboratories with digital control.Facilitate teaching of these courses by EE faculty specializing in other fields.Identify best practices and learn from the experiences at different universities.The workshop will be organized jointly by Arizona State University and University of Minnesota. At University of Minnesota, as well as at ASU, restructuring of power electronics related courses is being actively pursued since 1994. Two NSF funded projects namely, "Innovations in Power Engineering Education" in 1997 and "DSP-Based Software-Reconfigurable Laboratory to Nationally Revitalize Electric Drives and Power Electronics Curricula" in 2000, provided a big impetus to these efforts at University of Minnesota. In January 3-5, 2002, a workshop was organized at the Arizona State University, Tempe, where the new methods of teaching first courses in Power Electronics and Electric Drives were presented and the newly developed hardware laboratory setups were demonstrated. This workshop was extremely successful with approximately 125 registrants from across the country.In the proposed workshop in January 2003 at ASU, new significant developments in the undergraduate power electronics and electric drives laboratory setups will be demonstrated. Teaching methods developed and the improved lecture notes based on suggestions at the previous workshop will be presented. A poster session for interested faculty will be organized, where they will have an opportunity to describe their own efforts at improving the related curriculum. A panel session consisting of experts from government agencies and industry will be arranged to discuss challenges and opportunities in these fields.Applications of power electronics in power systems, made possible by the advancements in power semiconductor devices, represent the new frontier in the field of power electronics. A course on this topic, which has important applications in electric power network efficiency and security, will be discussed at this proposed workshop. As a part of the workshop proceedings, copies of poster presentations, complete lecture notes, lecture transparencies, and the simulation exercises discussed during the workshop will be distributed. Ample time will be provided to critique the course material and the laboratories developed through NSF funding. Ways of tightly coupling lecture material to simulations and hardware laboratory will be discussed. Plans to acquire laboratory equipment in a collaborative manner and to develop laboratory experiments will be discussed.