Choi, S., & Saeedifard, M., & Shenoy, R. (2011, June), A Modern Education Power Electronics Laboratory to Enhance Hands-on Active Learning  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC. 10.18260/1-2--17349

\bibitem{asee_peer_17349}
  Choi, S., \& Saeedifard, M., \& Shenoy, R. (2011, June), \emph{A Modern Education Power Electronics Laboratory to Enhance Hands-on Active Learning}
  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC.
  10.18260/1-2--17349

Sanghun Choi, Maryam Saeedifard, and Rohit Shenoy.  "A Modern Education Power Electronics Laboratory to Enhance Hands-on Active Learning".  2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2011.  https://peer.asee.org/17349 Internet.  04 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_17349}
  Sanghun Choi, Maryam Saeedifard, and Rohit Shenoy.
  "A Modern Education Power Electronics Laboratory to Enhance Hands-on Active Learning".
  \emph{2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2011.
  https://peer.asee.org/17349 Internet.  04 Dec, 2024

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AB  -       A Modern Educational Power Electronics Laboratory to Enhance                       Hands-on Active LearningAbstract – Power electronics is an enabling technology with significant potential toaccommodate the environmentally friendly Renewable Energy Resources (DERs) in the powersystem, as power electronic converters act as the DER interfaces to the grid. The trend towardincreased penetration of DERs into the grid and the acceptance of the “clean, green” energygeneration concept has created a significant demand on incorporating innovative teachingmethodologies in the undergraduate curriculum. The subject area of power electronics ismultidisciplinary spanning a broad variety of subjects including circuits and signals analysis,automatic control, digital control, and electromechanical energy conversion. An effective powerelectronics laboratory in today’s rapidly changing environment of daily technologicalbreakthroughs should make a thread among those subjects by using state-of-the-artsoftware/hardware tools.This paper presents a newly developed educational power electronics laboratory, based on thestate-of-the-art tools, that encompasses both theoretical aspects of power electronicsconverters and their practical applications in renewable energy systems. The primarypurpose of the developed laboratory is to (i) experimentally reinforce the fundamentalconcepts presented in the power electronics course, thus providing a strong bridgebetween theory and application, (ii) provide the students with hands-on active learningexperiences in the design of power electronic circuits in the context of emerging applications, (iii)introduce the state-of-the-art simulation and experimentation tools for hands-on design, test, andprototyping of power electronic converters, by exposing the students to modern, yet simple anduser-friendly, experimental facilities.The developed laboratory, which is built based upon prior theoretical knowledge andbackground of the students in power electronics, combines the sophisticated TexasInstruments (TI)’s hardware tools with the MATLAB/SIMULINK software for to design, test,and rapid prototype of power electronics circuits. This will provide an ideal test bed forteaching/learning power electronic systems and their applications in renewable energy systems.The signature aspect of the laboratory is that it creates threads among courses such assignals and systems, digital signal processing, control theory, power electronics, andembedded systems, and retain the students’ knowledge across multiple disciplines. Thisstrategy goes beyond the “divide and conquer” strategy wherein each subject is relegatedto its own course and then reduced and analyzed. This strategy in conjunction with thevisualization capabilities of the laboratory tools motivates student-oriented discovery andconstitutes a rather remarkable paradigm shift for teaching/learning power electronicscircuits.Fig 1 : Power Electronic Laboratory Setup for Undergraduate Students
AU  - Sanghun Choi
AU  - Maryam Saeedifard
AU  - Rohit Shenoy
CY  - Vancouver, BC
DA  - 2011/06/26
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - A Modern Education Power Electronics Laboratory to Enhance Hands-on Active Learning
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