Development of a State-of-the-Art Undergraduate Laboratory for Power Electronics Education

工程-电气（55）该项目正在开发一个现代化的硬件实验室，支持电力电子学的紧密耦合入门课程和该领域的高级设计项目重点。它正在采用一种非常成功的教学方法和模型实验室，该实验室是在明尼苏达大学这一领域的一个领先项目中开发的。该方法使用构建块模型来统一分析所有常用的转换器拓扑，从而允许在入门课程中涵盖高级主题。 PI正在修改模型程序，特别强调电力电子的设计方面，介绍数字控制，并在新兴的电源管理领域进行新的实验。 评价工作正在利用学生调查、当地雇主访问和雇主调查来评估这一方法对改善学生学习、吸引学生到外地工作和提供这一领域熟练毕业生的影响。 通过参加一个广泛参加的国家电力电子教育讲习班计划以及通过一个有13所大学和40个工业成员的电力系统联合会的研讨会计划，正在完成传播工作。

Engineering - Electrical (55)The project is developing a modern hardware laboratory that supports a tightly coupled introductory course in power electronics and a senior design project emphasis in this area. It is adapting a highly successful pedagogical approach and model laboratory developed at a leading program in this field at the University of Minnesota. The approach uses a building-block model to uniformly analyze all commonly used converter topologies, thereby allowing coverage of even advanced topics in the introductory course. The PI is modifying the model program by adding a special emphasis on the design aspects of power electronics, an introduction to digital control, and new experiments on the emerging field of power management. The evaluation effort is using student surveys, visits by local employers, and employer surveys to assess the effect of the approach on improving student learning, on attracting students to the field, and in providing skilled graduates in this field. Dissemination is being accomplished through participation in a widely attended, national workshop program on power electronics educations and through the seminar program of a power systems consortium with 13 university and 40 industry members.