Collaborative Research: Development of a New Power Electronics Curriculum Relevant to Tomorrow's Power Engineering Challenges

合作研究：开发与未来电力工程挑战相关的新电力电子课程

• 批准号: 1044338
• 负责人: Maryam Saeedifard
• 金额: $ 11.9万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1044338&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Development; New; Power

Participating Institutions: Purdue University and Iowa State University Project Description This project involves a collaborative team that is developing a new power electronics curriculum. It is enhancing the relevance of the subject by identifying the role of power electronics in addressing tomorrow's grand challenge of developing sustainable energy resources. The effort is focusing on the increased demand for highly qualified personnel in the energy industry by creating a curriculum that helps entice and educate engineering students; addressing a severe workforce shortage in the power industry. There are three main objectives of the project: (1) to develop a new power electronics curriculum that educates the next generation of power engineers with the required knowledge and skills to tackle tomorrow's challenges; (2) to foster integration of research into the undergraduate curriculum and incorporate undergraduate students into research projects; and (3) to initiate a multi-faceted renewable energy, distributed generation, and electric vehicles curriculum. The effort is producing specifically tailored analytical/experimental tools to enhance active design/research-based learning practices by leveraging highly qualified personnel from two academic institutions with complementary expertise. The project's success in accomplishing these objectives is being assessed by an external evaluator. Broader Significance The educational materials produced by this effort are being broadly disseminated via a mix of active and passive methods, through participation in conferences, journal publications and the Web (using Purdue's HUBzeroTM technology to create a 'Power Electronics Hub'). In addition, the developed lecture notes will provide the foundation for a new textbook on power electronics focused on renewable energy integration and electric vehicles applications. The new laboratory is being showcased to local high-school students, who are invited to attend exciting demonstrations of energy conversion projects. The proposed problem solving-based learning practices and engaging laboratory environment are helping to attract underrepresented groups into pursuing careers in the power systems industry.

参与机构：普渡大学和爱荷华州立大学项目描述该项目涉及一个正在开发新电力电子课程的协作团队。它通过确定电力电子技术在应对明天发展可持续能源的巨大挑战中的作用来增强主题的相关性。这项努力是通过创建有助于吸引和教育工程专业学生的课程来关注能源行业中对高素质人员的需求。解决电力行业严重的劳动力短缺。该项目有三个主要目标：（1）开发一个新的电力电子课程，该课程通过所需的知识和技能来教育下一代的电力工程师，以应对明天的挑战； （2）促进将研究融合到本科课程中，并将本科生纳入研究项目； （3）启动多面可再生能源，分布式生成和电动汽车课程。这项工作是通过利用具有互补专业知识的两个学术机构的高素质人员来生产专门量身定制的分析/实验工具来增强主动设计/基于研究的学习实践。该项目成功实现这些目标的成功正在由外部评估者评估。更广泛的意义，通过参与会议，期刊出版物和Web（使用Purdue的Hubzerotm技术来创建“ Power Electronics Hub”），这项工作所产生的教育材料正在通过主动和被动方法的混合来广泛传播。此外，开发的讲义将为一本有关电力电子产品的新教科书奠定基础，该教科书着重于可再生能源集成和电动汽车应用。新实验室正在向当地高中生展示，他们受邀参加激动人心的能源转化项目展示。拟议的基于问题解决的学习实践和参与实验室环境正在帮助吸引代表性不足的群体从事电力系统行业的职业。