Conference: Reforming Power Semiconductor Education. To be Held October, 27 - November 1, 2013 in San Francisco, CA.

拟议的项目寻求为学生、代表不足的团体和年轻研究人员参加2013年10月27日至11月1日在加利福尼亚州旧金山举行的第224届电化学学会(ECS)会议的GaN和碳化硅功率技术研讨会3提供资金支持。研讨会将讨论与开发和提供从元件到系统的综合电力电子课程相关的研究领域。该计划包括该领域活跃专家的特邀演讲和定期论文，以传播当前的想法，并促进关于不同应用的批判性讨论。讲者将解释如何在目前的工程课程中实施拟议的课程改革。关于如何着手确保采用电力电子元件、技术和系统的综合课程的讨论，将为更好地理解这一对国家地区至关重要的问题提供机会。拟议的会议会议使人们强烈认识到包括各种组件的物理和技术的重要性，这些组件是设计和建造基于固态电力电子的现代电能转换系统所需的。它还将在大学和社区学院的教育课程中强调新兴的宽禁带半导体功率开关器件。

The proposed project seeks financial support for the participation of student, underrepresented groups and young researchers in the Symposium on GaN and SiC Power Technologies 3 at the 224th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting to be held Oct. 27 - Nov. 1, 2013 in San Francisco, CA.. The Symposium will address research areas related to developing and delivering an Integrated Power Electronics Curriculum from Components to Systems. The program includes invited presentations by active experts in the field as well as regular papers, to enable dissemination of the current ideas and to foster critical discussion on the diverse applications. The speakers will explain how to implement the proposed curricular changes in the current engineering curriculum. Discussions on how to proceed to ensure the adoption of an integrated curriculum in power electronics components, technologies, and systems will provide the opportunity for a better understanding this critical for the nation area. The proposed conference session create a strong awareness about the importance of including the physics and technologies of various components that are needed to design and build modern electrical energy conversion systems based on solid-state power electronics. It will also emphasize the emerging wide bandgap semiconductor power switching devices in university and community college educational curricula.