Modern laboratory-based education for power electronics and electric machines

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 538-547

  Balog, Robert S ^a   Sorchini, Zakdy ^a   Kimball, Jonathan W ^a   Chapman, Patrick L ^a   Krein, Philip T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Educational technology; Energy conversion; Power engineering education

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; ELECTRIC MACHINERY; LABORATORIES; POWER ELECTRONICS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; POWER ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 18944395151     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2005.846237     Document Type: Article

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