Build to Win: Power Electronics

We have developed a hands-on kit for prototyping power electronics. This kit permits students to design and build power circuits capable of processing thousands of watts safely, while preserving design flexibility, i.e., avoiding “cookbook” laboratory assignments. This system exposes students to real-world operating conditions and parasitics that often define and delimit a power electronic design in industry. This hardware and the associated approach to instruction provides flexible, repeated design-and-build experiences in a single-term undergraduate class typically taken by juniors and seniors.