A Modern Dsp Based Laboratory For Power Electronics Education

Power Electronics is an important emerging technology and has become an integral part of power engineering education. This paper addresses the critical challenge of educating the future Electric Power Engineers in this rapidly developing multidisciplinary field. Special emphasis is placed on design aspects of power electronics by incorporating pre-Labs involving PSpice simulation. This allows the students to have a good understanding of the circuit design and operation before they get the hands on experience from the actual hardware experiments. This paper will disseminate the results of the newly developed laboratory experiments that have been implemented so far, along with the initial assessment data gathered by an independent evaluator.