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发表于 2011-4-25 12:18:31
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Preface
Power electronics is normally offered as a technical elective. It is an application-
oriented and interdisciplinary course that requires a background in mathematics,
electrical circuits, control systems, analog and digital electronics, microprocessors,
electric power, and electrical machines.
The understanding of the operation of a power electronics circuit requires a
clear knowledge of the transient behavior of current and voltage waveforms for
each and every circuit element at every instant of time.
These features make power electronics a difficult course for students to
understand and for professors to teach. A laboratory helps in understanding power
electronics and its control interfacing circuits. Development of a power electronics
laboratory is relatively expensive compared to other courses in power electronics–
electronic power (EE) curriculum. Power electronics is playing a key role in
industrial power control.
The Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for
Engineering and Technology (EAC/ABET) requirements specify the computer
integration and design content in the EE curriculum. To be competitive, a power
electronics course should integrate a design content of approximately 50% and
an extensive use of computer-aided analysis. |
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