Faculty Workshop on Teaching of First Courses on Power Electronics and Electric Drives.

此补助金将资助于2001年3月举办的“电力电子及电力传动第一课程教学”教师工作坊。本次讲习班将促进以下目标：提供本领域最优质的本科教育；2 .激励和吸引有才能的学生；3 .尽量减少讲师的备课时间。促进这些课程的教学由专业的其他领域的EE教师。电力电子和电力驱动有潜力通过机器人技术和工厂自动化来提高工业生产率，并使美国成为最有效利用电力的国家。电力电子和电力驱动的本科教育面临迫在眉睫的危机，如果不加以解决，将使国家的工程师太少，无法利用这些机会。在机动车辆领域，电力电子设备也将对交通运输至关重要，可以更有效地利用能源。明尼苏达大学自1994年以来一直在研究这些课程的重组。1997年5月，NSF、EPRI和当地公用事业公司资助了一项为期三年的电力工程教育创新项目，其中包括“电力驱动教学”和“电力电子教学”的研讨会，这一努力得到了强有力的推动。这两次研讨会都非常成功，每次都有近百人参加。新的讲习班将以先前活动产生的新经验为基础，并试图将这两个领域结合起来。新的讲习班将以先前活动产生的新经验为基础，并试图将这两个领域结合起来。作为研讨会记录的一部分，将分发已完成的课堂讲稿、讲座幻灯片和研讨会期间讨论的模拟练习的副本。将讨论如何将课堂材料与模拟和硬件实验紧密耦合。

This grant will support a Faculty Workshop on "Teaching of First Courses on Power Electronics and Electric Drives" in March 2001. This workshop will promote the following objectives:1. Provide the highest quality undergraduate education in this field,2. Motivate and attract talented students,3. Minimize lecture-preparation time for the instructors, and4. Facilitate teaching of these courses by EE faculty specializing in other fields.Power electronics and electric drives have the potential to improve industrial productivity by means of robotics and factory automation, and of making the United States become a nation that uses electricity most efficiently. There is a looming crisis in the undergraduate education of power electronics and electric drives which, if not addressed, will leave the nation with far too few engineers to take advantage of these opportunities. Power electronics will also be crucial to transitrtren, in the motor vehicle sector allowing more efficient use of energy.The University of Minnesota has studied the restructuring of these courses since 1994. This effort received a strong impetus from funding by NSF, EPRI, and the local utilities in May 1997 when a three-year project Innovations in Power Engineering Education there, including prior workshops on "Teaching of Electric Drives" and "Teaching of Power Electronics". Both of these workshops were highly successful, each attended by nearly one hundred participants. The new workshop will build on the new experience resulting from this prior activity and also attempt to develop integration of the two areas. The new workshop will build on the new experience resulting from this prior activity and also attempt to develop integration of the two areas.As a part of the workshop proceedings, copies of completed lecture notes, lecture transparencies, and the simulation exercises discussed during the workshop will be distributed. Ways of tightly coupling lecture material to simulations and hardware laboratory will be discussed.