Novel online simulator for education of power electronics and electrical engineering

Author

Drofenik, U. ; Müsing, A. ; Kolar, J.W.

Author_Institution

Power Electron. Syst. Lab. (PES), ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2010

fDate

21-24 June 2010

Firstpage

1105

Lastpage

1111

Abstract

In this paper a novel online simulator is introduced that is integrated into the educational project iPES which is a free collection of Java applets for educational purpose. iPES has been translated into 12 languages and has currently more than 10, 000 visits per month. The novel online simulator is optimized for power electronics, easy to use, and allows unlimited simulation of converter topologies. The concept of embedding a circuit simulator in the form of a Java applet into a webpage allows the creation of power electronic and electrical engineering courses that are easy for students to access, highly flexible and require a low administrative effort. The paper will discuss the status of the iPES project in detail including all shortcomings and will show how the integration of the online simulator significantly improves the educational value.

Keywords

Internet; Java; circuit simulation; electronic engineering computing; electronic engineering education; power electronics; power engineering computing; power engineering education; Java applets; Webpage; circuit simulator; educational purpose; electrical engineering; iPES project; online simulator; power electronics education; Circuit simulation; Circuit topology; Computational modeling; Electrical engineering; Java; Laboratories; Numerical simulation; Power electronics; Power engineering education; Seminars; Java applet; education; interactive animation; numerical simulation; online simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Conference (IPEC), 2010 International

Conference_Location

Sapporo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5394-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPEC.2010.5543198

Filename

5543198