A computer‐aided educational tool for induction motors

The design of electrical machines is gaining more popularity in the last years especially in electrical engineering courses. However, commonly‐used teaching techniques seem to limit students' understanding and prevent the attainment of the learning objectives. The competence of this subject can be significantly improved when a practical approach based on the use of computer‐aided educational tools is followed. Thus, this paper proposes an effective and user‐friendly educational tool, which has been developed and successfully implemented in post‐graduate courses in order to facilitate the conception of brushless direct current (BLDC) machines design aspect. At first, a step‐by‐step design procedure is analytically described and then the main tool's characteristics and capabilities are also presented. Finally, its impact assessment has been conducted and the derived results revealed that its application could be extended to the design of various types of electrical motors and generators.

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confidence: 99%

A computer aided educational tool for design, modeling, and performance analysis of Brushless DC motor in post graduate degree courses

Chasiotis

Karnavas

2018

“…Nowadays, there is a growing trend in the utilization of computer‐aided tools for a better understanding and improving teaching efficiency . As the benefits of computer‐aided teaching are broadly recognized, a number of computer applications have been developed and introduced in classroom practice . However, the software mentioned above has neither been specially developed for water distribution network design nor for educational purposes.…”

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confidence: 99%

Interactive educational software for teaching water distribution networks design

Zhang

Cheng

2016

This paper presents an educational software focused on teaching the design process of water distribution networks to Municipal Engineering students and Environmental Engineering students. This software has been developed using Delphi 7.0. And it is divided into four sections: (1) interactive drawing tools for developing the topology model of a water distribution network, (2) effective management of different kinds of data related to water distribution networks, (3) hydraulic analysis for designing a water distribution system in operational conditions when varying the parameter values, and (4) AutoCAD interface files produced to help students draw the design scheme. This software has become a very useful tool for undergraduate students in compliment to the theoretical classes or alone, as a self‐study tool. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 24:615–628, 2016; View this article online at http://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/cae; DOI

“…Students of electrical engineering subjects, such as electric machines, are increasingly using computer‐aided educational tools. Educational approaches, as developing virtual labs [4,5] using commercial software packages such as Matlab–Simulink or creating dedicated software for training [7,8], as a tool to teaching and demonstration, are aimed to help the students for an easier understanding of the theoretical concepts and to provide an effective feedback during the learning process. Also, the recourse to experimental systems together with computer‐aided educational tools for teaching different aspects of electrical machines analysis has increased [9,10].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using finite element method based software to teach electrical machines—The linear switched reluctance actuator

Calado

Espírito-Santo

Salvadó

et al. 2015

In this paper, the authors intend to propose a method to teach Electrical Machines in Electrical Engineering courses. The way that both in textbooks and classrooms treat this subject seems to limit students' understanding. The competences on electrical machines design and analysis are improved by a practical approach based on simulation and numerical analysis using Finite Element Method Software. As a complement to the previous teaching method, the students use an experimental test bench to verify the numerical results. A particular topic, concerning the study of the Linear Switched Reluctance Actuators, is here presented. Therefore, we propose a guideline for use in the classroom. ß 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 23: [824][825][826][827][828][829][830][831][832][833][834][835][836] 2015; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/cae;