Content server for use in Power Electronics courses

Information technologies are a helpful tool in the teacher-student interaction. Teachers can give support to students without the need for an 100% in person contact, which is needed in the context of Bologna paradigm. For many activities, no schedule match is needed, since students access to resources and send requests to teachers whenever they need. In this paper the work of two Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences undergraduate students is presented. It consists in the implementation of a web portal to be used as a tool for Power Electronics Lectures. This work is intended to be interdisciplinary, involving not only the requisites evaluation and specification of the site and its creation but also all the process of server installation, and server side software selection, installation and configuration. A Ubuntu Linux Server was set up, on which Apache web server was installed along with all other server software needed to support the site, such as MySQL and PHP, and software needed to remotely access the server, the SSH and FTP servers. The site itself was implemented using Drupal, which is a Content Management System.