TY - JOUR
T1 - Modern laboratory-based education for power electronics and electric machines
AU - Balog, Robert S.
AU - Sorchini, Zakdy
AU - Kimball, Jonathan W.
AU - Chapman, Patrick L.
AU - Krein, Philip T.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received August 4, 2004; September 28, 2004. This work was supported by the Grainger CEME, by the UIUC Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), and by the National Science Foundation under Grant ECS-01-34208. Paper no. TPWRS-00425-2004. The authors are with the Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics (CEME), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TPWRS.2005.846237
PY - 2005/5
Y1 - 2005/5
N2 - The study of modern energy conversion draws upon a broad range of knowledge and often requires a fair amount of experience. This suggests that laboratory instruction should be an integral component of a power electronics and electric machines curriculum. However, before a single watt can be processed in a realistic way, the student must understand not only the operation of conversion systems but also more advanced concepts such as control theory, speed and position sensing, switching signal generation, gate drive isolation, circuit layout, and other critical issues. Our approach is to use a blue-box module where these details are pre-built for convenience, but not hidden from the students inside a black box. Recent improvements to our blue-box modules are described in this paper and include a dual-MOSFET control box with independently isolated FET devices, a triple silicon controlled rectifier control box, a discretely built, high quality pulse-width modulation inverter, a small discrete brushless dc drive system, and a high-performance computer-controlled brushless dc dynamometer motor drive system. Complete details, sufficient to allow the reader to duplicate these designs, are publicly available.
AB - The study of modern energy conversion draws upon a broad range of knowledge and often requires a fair amount of experience. This suggests that laboratory instruction should be an integral component of a power electronics and electric machines curriculum. However, before a single watt can be processed in a realistic way, the student must understand not only the operation of conversion systems but also more advanced concepts such as control theory, speed and position sensing, switching signal generation, gate drive isolation, circuit layout, and other critical issues. Our approach is to use a blue-box module where these details are pre-built for convenience, but not hidden from the students inside a black box. Recent improvements to our blue-box modules are described in this paper and include a dual-MOSFET control box with independently isolated FET devices, a triple silicon controlled rectifier control box, a discretely built, high quality pulse-width modulation inverter, a small discrete brushless dc drive system, and a high-performance computer-controlled brushless dc dynamometer motor drive system. Complete details, sufficient to allow the reader to duplicate these designs, are publicly available.
KW - Education
KW - Educational technology
KW - Energy conversion
KW - Power engineering education
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U2 - 10.1109/TPWRS.2005.846237
DO - 10.1109/TPWRS.2005.846237
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:18944395151
SN - 0885-8950
VL - 20
SP - 538
EP - 547
JO - IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
JF - IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
IS - 2
ER -