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

这笔拨款将用于资助在2001年3月举办的“电力电子和电力驱动初级课程教学”教师工作坊。本次研讨会将促进实现以下目标：1.提供该领域最高质量的本科教育，2.激励和吸引有才华的学生，3.最大限度地减少讲师的备课时间。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提高工业生产率，使美国成为最有效地使用电力的国家。电力电子和电力驱动的本科教育面临着一场迫在眉睫的危机，如果不加以解决，将使美国的工程师人数过少，无法利用这些机会。 电力电子学也将是至关重要的transitrtren，在机动车部门允许更有效地利用能源。明尼苏达大学研究了这些课程的重组自1994年以来。1997年5月，美国国家科学基金会、电力研究所和当地公用事业公司资助了这项工作，当时一个为期三年的项目“电力工程教育创新”在那里启动，包括以前的“电力驱动教学”和“电力电子教学”研讨会。这两次讲习班都非常成功，每次都有近百人参加。 新的讲习班将借鉴以往活动所取得的新经验，并试图将这两个领域结合起来。 新的研讨会将建立在先前活动所产生的新经验的基础上，并试图发展这两个领域的整合。作为研讨会程序的一部分，将分发已完成的课堂讲稿、演讲稿和研讨会期间讨论的模拟练习的副本。 将讨论将讲座材料与模拟和硬件实验室紧密结合的方法。

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.