Alsmadi, Y., & Tsai, K., & Scott, M. J., & Xu, L., & Wang, A. (2014, June), New Trends and Technologies in Power Electronics and  Motor Drives Education  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana. 10.18260/1-2--22868

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  Alsmadi, Y., \& Tsai, K., \& Scott, M. J., \& Xu, L., \& Wang, A. (2014, June), \emph{New Trends and Technologies in Power Electronics and  Motor Drives Education}
  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  10.18260/1-2--22868

Yazan Alsmadi, Kaichien Tsai, Mark J. Scott, Longya Xu, and Aimeng Wang.  "New Trends and Technologies in Power Electronics and  Motor Drives Education".  2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2014.  https://strategy.asee.org/22868 Internet.  18 Aug, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_22868}
  Yazan Alsmadi, Kaichien Tsai, Mark J. Scott, Longya Xu, and Aimeng Wang.
  "New Trends and Technologies in Power Electronics and  Motor Drives Education".
  \emph{2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2014.
  https://strategy.asee.org/22868 Internet.  18 Aug, 2024

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AB  -               New Trends and Technologies in Power Electronics and                            Motor Drives TeachingThe traditional education model for undergraduate and graduate education is changing. This isevident by the variety of distant learning opportunities that exist these days. At our institution,students not only juggle large class loads, but some have full time jobs and families. Others areinvolved in student activities, such as marching band or athletics. These extra obligations impededthe adopted approach of offering a single laboratory time slot that offers little flexibility inaccommodating the extracurricular needs of the student.This paper presents a new laboratory course based on a novel teaching methodology called “OpenSpace Lab”. In this approach, students are provided with all the facilities to do their laboratorywork in an openly available work space that can be accessed at a time that is convenient for them.The following abstract focuses on the application of this methodology to our Power ElectronicsLab. The course provides students with hands-on experience designing and controlling of powerelectronics and as well as applying them to motor drives. This laboratory reinforces the conceptsthat are covered in their theoretical courseworkOur work started with recording videos for of the each experiment. These are made available tostudents before, during, and after the lab experiment. In addition, each student is has writteninstructions available for download from the course website.The instructor in the video describes the relevant equipment needed for the experiment, its purpose,and how it will be used. The written instructions are divided into segments to break the work upinto cohesive packets. The students follow the steps in each segment, then request approval froma lab monitor to continue their experiment. The lab monitor confirms their progress and evaluatesthe setup to determine if the students have achieved specific goals (e.g., a particular set ofwaveforms on an oscilloscope, voltage read by a voltmeter). Once the students are given theapproval, they may continue with the next segment in the experiment.This lab course is designed for college seniors and graduate students. It includes a unique set ofexperiments, with state-of-the-art equipment and software, which combine the traditional powerelectronics and motor drives circuits with recent innovative energy conversion technologies. Thecontent targets modern industrial applications, including integrating renewable energy resources(wind and solar) into electric power systems and the control of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs).Most of the required lab hardware was designed and fabricated by instructional lab team members,with additional advanced development kits provided by Texas Instruments (TI). These kits includeC2000TM Solar Inverter Development Kits (TMDSSOLARCEXPKIT), Dual Motor Control andPower Factor Correction Developer's Kit (TMDS2MTRPFCKIT) and Renewable EnergyDeveloper’s Kit (TMDSENRGYKIT-C2000). This equipment is shown in the figuresbelow. Furthermore, each workstation is furnished with an iPad to facilitate the viewing process.The success of this approach is being assessed through student evaluations at the end of thesemester. Also being considered is enrollment into more advanced topics in the power relateddiscipline. These details will be summarized in the final paper.                    Samples of the Hardware Used in the Power Electronics and                                    Motor Control LaboratoryFigure 1: Buck Converter Board Component Layout               Figure 2: Boost Converter Board Component Layout  Figure 3: Major Components of the Solar Explorer Kit               Figure 4: Major Components of the Dual Motor                                                                                 and PFC Control Kit                                Figure 5: Panoramic View of the Open Space Lab Area
AU  - Yazan Alsmadi
AU  - Kaichien Tsai
AU  - Mark J. Scott
AU  - Longya Xu
AU  - Aimeng Wang
CY  - Indianapolis, Indiana
DA  - 2014/06/15
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - New Trends and Technologies in Power Electronics and  Motor Drives Education
UR  - https://strategy.asee.org/22868
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--22868
ER  -