Lighting systems: A course for increasing power electronics attractiveness in non-specialized engineer school?

This paper presents a new course on lighting systems in a French non-specialized engineer school. This course was conceived to increase student attractiveness for power electronics. After two years of unfolding, the conclusions are interesting. A survey has shown that students were not really more interested in power electronics. The only students´ plebiscite is the lighting design using DIALux software. The module is described and placed into the context of a non-specialized engineer school. Students´ opinion is then analyzed and capitalized to find why power electronics does not look as an interesting subject for these specific engineers.