How to Motivate Students to Work in the Laboratory: A New Approach for an Electrical Machines Laboratory

Saavedra‐Montes, Andrés Julián; Castro, Héctor Antonio Botero; Riveros, Jesús Antonio Hernandez

doi:10.1109/te.2009.2030790

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“…A challenge in teaching courses that involve this type of equipment is to help students better understand the course content [1] by giving them a clearer, more tangible view of the format, operation, and arrangement of the electric system, a knowledge of its various components, and the safety precautions required when using that equipment. Practical work on actual equipment tends not to be feasible because of factors such as the following: 1) safety of students and professors at electric power substations; 2) logistics of transporting students; 3) dependence on the electric utility's willingness to host technical visits; 4) schedule conflicts between students, professors, and the electric utility to be visited; 5) the length and frequency of visits being insufficient to meet student needs; 6) high cost of installing and using real equipment in the laboratory.…”

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Consolidating Learning in Power Systems: Virtual Reality Applied to the Study of the Operation of Electric Power Transformers

2015

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Within the field of electric power systems, the study of electrical equipment can be frustrating and demotivating because of the lack of a clear vision of how this equipment functions and operates in a real environment. The use of virtual reality can provide a more concrete representation for students, who rarely have the opportunity to visit a power substation or generating plant to acquire an understanding of how the equipment operates when integrated into an actual system. This paper describes work undertaken to improve the classroom study of such equipment , and to motivate students, by providing a clear overview of the equipment, approximating theory and practical functions, and simulating real situations that would be encountered on the equipment in an actual system. A virtual reality authoring tool was developed to provide students with a visualization of an autotransformer installed in an electric power substation, and to allow them to perform virtual maintenance and operating procedures on it. The influence of the software on students' levels of motivation and their performance was evaluated using questionnaires and reports. Finally, a framework is proposed that can help others create virtual reality trainings.

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Consolidating Learning in Power Systems: Virtual Reality Applied to the Study of the Operation of Electric Power Transformers

2015

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“…By contrast, simple setups can demonstrate different components of a machine distinctly helping the students to understand their mechanisms more easily. Furthermore, different amazing experiments are located within the setups which motivate the students to try to build such hand‐made easy setups themselves [26, 27]. The main idea of this laboratory and the setups is given from famous universities that lead the engineering education in the world [28].…”

Section: Elementary Laboratory Of Electromagnetics and Electrical Macmentioning

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New laboratories in High Voltage Institute of University of Tehran for teaching power engineering courses

Mohseni

Samimi

Seifi

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IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution

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“…Several teaching approaches are reported in the literature to enhance the learning experience of students taking the courses of electric machines. Integrating power electronics and feedback control with EM course is also reported to encourage students and show them the practical applications of this course [6][7][8][9][10]. Extensive use of simulation approach using MATLAB/Simulink in EM and power system courses are also reported [11][12][13][14].…”

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Systematic Implementation of Multi-Phase Power Supply (Three to Six) Conversion System

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Multiphase (more than three) power system has gained popularity due to their inherent advantages when compared to three-phase counterpart. Multiphase power supply is extensively used in AC/DC multi-pulse converters, especially supply with multiple of three-phases. AC/DC converter with multi-pulse input is a popular solution to reduce the ripple in the DC output. Single-phase and three-phase transformers and phase transformation from single to multiphase are employed in variable speed drives application to feed the multi-cell H-Bridge converters and multi-pulse AC-DC converters. Six-phase system is extensively discussed in the literature for numerous applications ranging from variable speed drives to multiphase wind energy generation system. This paper shows the systematic phase transformation technique from three-phase to six-phase (both symmetrical and asymmetrical) for both understanding and teaching purposes. Such an approach could help students understand a promising advanced concept in their undergraduate courses. When phase difference between the two consecutive phases of six phases has a phase difference of 60, it is called a symmetrical six-phase system; while an asymmetrical or quasi, six-phase has two set of three-phase with a phase shift of 30 between the two sets. Simulation and experimental results are also presented.

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How to Motivate Students to Work in the Laboratory: A New Approach for an Electrical Machines Laboratory

Cited by 28 publications

References 11 publications

Consolidating Learning in Power Systems: Virtual Reality Applied to the Study of the Operation of Electric Power Transformers

Consolidating Learning in Power Systems: Virtual Reality Applied to the Study of the Operation of Electric Power Transformers

New laboratories in High Voltage Institute of University of Tehran for teaching power engineering courses

Systematic Implementation of Multi-Phase Power Supply (Three to Six) Conversion System

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