Teaching Power Electronics to Electrical Engineering Undergraduates in an Interactive Two-semester Integrated Sequence

Power electronics instruction is presented in the context of an innovative, proven five-course undergraduate curriculum in electric power engineering.For the power electronics portion, there are five goals accomplished in two semesters within this framework.Courses have a 45-lesson semester format and use instructional methods shown to be successful for nearly twenty years.The program of instruction includes a laboratory program that uses appropriate laboratory equipment, kits, and a hands-on project to design, build, fabricate, populate, test, and iterate a DC/DC converter.Assessment summarizes nearly twenty years of successful instruction.