Survey of modern approaches of education in power electronics

Author

Drofenik, Uwe ; Kolar, Johann W.

Author_Institution

Power Electron. Syst. Lab., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

749

Abstract

This paper introduces a new software tool "iPES - Interactive Power Electronics Seminar" for teaching and self-studying power electronics. iPES consists of HTML text where Java-applets (small programs) are inserted which are used for interactive animation and simulation of power electronic circuits and electrical machines. The whole tool does need just a standard web-browser and is fully independent of the underlying operating system. No software installation is required, and all interactive Java programs are written with the focus on very easy usage. The tool is available at www.ipes.ethz.ch in English, German and Japanese, can be accessed via the World Wide Web or used with a CD-ROM in a stand-alone PC

Keywords

computer aided instruction; electronic engineering computing; electronic engineering education; power electronics; power engineering computing; power engineering education; software packages; HTML text; Java-applets; electrical machines; iPES CAI software tool; interactive Java programs; interactive animation; power electronics education; self-study; teaching; web-browser; Animation; Circuit simulation; Education; Educational programs; HTML; Java; Operating systems; Power electronics; Seminars; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 2002. APEC 2002. Seventeenth Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7404-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APEC.2002.989329

Filename

989329