| Abstract |
All over the world, courses in electric machines and electric drives are suffering from lack of student interest, leading to their cancellation and eventual elimination from the curriculum. This is happening just when we need trained students to make use of tremendous opportunities in this field. This article presents a proven strategy that has tripled student enrollment from its low point at the University of Minnesota. This approach, presented at three National Science Foundation-sponsored Faculty Workshops held at the University of Minnesota [1], is now backed up by recently published textbooks [2,3]. The development underway of a dSPACE/DSP-based laboratory [4] has the potential of making the first course on this topic one of the the most sought-after in the EE curriculum, attracting a large number of students from other disciplines such as mechanical, civil and environmental engineering. A second-semester course on machine dynamics, control and modeling using SIMULINK and dSPACE will be discussed. |
