Design and implementation of a fundamental electric machine laboratory using industrial devices

Abstract

The design and implementation of the instructional electric machine laboratory is described in this paper. The objectives of this project are to upgrade 50-year old laboratory equipment and to provide students with hands-on experience on up-to-date electric machines, drives and instruments, as well as to improve their understanding of the theory learned from lectures. Instead of the systems especially designed for educational purpose, off-the-shelf industrial devices have been selected for the experiments to make them more realistic and thus closer to work situations, as well as more cost effective. Experiments, hardware components, instruments and student feedback about the laboratory course offered are presented. © 2012 American Society for Engineering Education.