Educational Activities -- Tutorials

PELS Educational Activities Committee Site

Tutorial and educational publications. Thanks to our volunteers who have been willing to share this material. If you have questions, it is best to contact the authors directly.

A Strategy for the Revival of Electric Machines and Drives Courses, by Ned Mohan, Mahmoud Riaz, Paul Imbertson and Ted Brekken.

Linked presentation slides (PDF format)
The printed article (PDF format)

Cycloconverters, by Burak Ozpineci, Leon M. Tolbert (PDF format)
Prof. Mohan has also provided a link to educational materials on another web site, based on material developed through prior NSF-funded workshops. The site http://www.ece.umn.edu/groups/workshop2002/Teaching_of_Power_Electronics.pdf includes this information.
Prof. Johann W. Kolar and Uwe Drofenik of the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory (PES), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) have provided some interactive content associated with an introductory power electronics course. The link is http://www.ipes.ethz.ch/.

Student project ideas. This is a list of possible projects that are suitable for student design activities. Each addresses a practical problem with a hardware solution.

Thank you for visiting. This page is hosted through the courtesy of the Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA. The webmaster can be reached at pels@energy.ece.uiuc.edu.