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When the light at the end of the tunnel comes within
reach, the motivation is boosted, and the last few weeks
of the semester and week or two after the semester ends,
Power Electronics Laboratory is full of students coming
to finalize their designs and collect their measurement
results.
Finally, Figure 7 provides an overview of many realized
Flyback converters from 2021-2022 academic year.
Eighteen out of 20 teams have managed to get their converters
working with an acceptable level of performance,
considering the novice design team behind doing it for the
first time ever.
Conclusion
There are clearly many ways how power electronics can
be taught, and this article summarizes details and practices
we deploy. There is a great deal of satisfaction
achieved at the end of the course, seeing students being
very proud of making something working for the first
time. Even if the final result does not work as expected,
they are most of the time able to explain what mistakes
were made and what is the cause of a strange behavior
or lack of performances. They also get to keep their converter
after the end of the course, as a trophy of some
sort. Ultimately, we are managing to achieve our learning
objective and, at the same, the complexity and beauty of
power electronics designs get revealed, hopefully motivating
many to join into the community and dedicate
careers to it.
Acknowledgment
The authors would like to acknowledge all EPFL Bachelor
students who have successfully designed their converter
prototypes during the Power Electronics course (EE-365):
Delphine Lucie Allimann, Mathias Antonio Arnold,
Johanna Laure Diane Crucke, Oulaya Darbi, Nicolas Antonin
Devaux, Benjamin Duc, Matthieu Julien Duret, Evan
Cyril El Khoury, Ismael Tobias Frei, Santiago Gallego
Restrepo, Eva Paloma Garcia Bermejo, Loïc Ginesi,
Michael Ha, Luc Iain Harrison, Anis Hassan, Charlotte Arielle
Florence Heibig, Mathilda Myriam Aïda Souad
Henoud, Victor Marc Joseph Jean Henry, Sam Guy Houliston,
Severin Leander Julen, Louis-Léandre Mackaya,
Micah Yo Maheo, Cecilia Stella Männik, Gaël Metras, Asbjørn
Nisi, Romain Alain Jacques Peseux, Nearchos Potamitis,
Ariane Coline Priou, Ludovic Pujol, Clement Weihao
Samanos, Lucile Anne Siegfried, Pablo Suárez Reyero,
Seyedehfatemeh Taghishokrgozar, Konstantinos Tolanoudis,
Sinan Ulcay, Matthis Valentin Lucas Valazza, and
Valentin Antoine Roger Vuillon.
About the Authors
Drazen Dujic (drazen.dujic@epfl.ch) received the Dipl.
Ing. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Novi Sad,
Serbia, in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D.
degree from Liverpool John Moores University, U.K., in
2008. He is an Associate Professor and the Head of the
Power Electronics Laboratory at École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
His research interests are predominantly related to high
power conversion technologies for medium voltage
applications. He is teaching courses related to design
and control in power electronics. He is a Senior Member
of the IEEE.
Andrea Cervone is a Post-Doctoral Researcher with
the Power Electronics Laboratory, École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
His research activities are focused on control in power
electronics.
Chengmin Li is a Post-Doctoral Researcher with
the Power Electronics Laboratory, École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
His research interests are related to wideband gap power
electronics.
Philippe Bontemps is currently pursuing the Ph.D.
degree with the Power Electronics Laboratory, École
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne,
Switzerland. His Ph.D. research work is related
to matrix modular multilevel converter for hydropower
applications.
Yanick Frei is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree
with the Power Electronics Laboratory, École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
His Ph.D. research work is related to the design of
a high density and high-voltage semiconductors-based
modular multilevel converter.
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