An experimental lab to enhance undergraduate electromagnetics education

Why Study Electromagnetics: The First Unit in an Undergraduate Electromagnetics Course

Maxwell’s equations, formulated circa 1870, represent a fundamental unification of electric and magnetic fields predicting electromagnetic wave phenomena which Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman has called the most outstanding achievement of 19th-century science. Now, engineers and scientists worldwide use computers ranging from simple desktop machines to massively parallel arrays of processors to ...

Seminar-Based Electromagnetics Education

In this paper, an innovative student seminar-based classroom practice is reported. The instructional process was illustrated by student-oriented theoretical inquiry of interested topics combined with traditional and emerging applications. Specifically, under the careful guidance of the instructor, every student or student group chose an EM topic of their interest and presented to the class; whi...

" Undergraduate Electromagnetics : Discrete , Numeric , and Continuous

This paper describes a new approach to undergraduate electromagnetics that is based on spatial discretization and numeric computation. The initial coverage is limited to quasi-static, twodimensional, Cartesian geometries with no leakage flux, descriptive of many ideal lumped circuit elements with which the students are already familiar. The circuit behavior of resistors, capacitors, and inducto...

Ac 2011-2748: a Modern Education Power Electronics Lab- Oratory to Enhance Hands-on Active Learning

A new educational power electronics laboratory based on state-of-the-art tools and industrial-grade platforms is presented in this paper. The developed laboratory, which is built based upon prior theoretical knowledge and background of the students in power electronics, combines the sophisticated Texas Instruments (TI)’s hardware tools with MATLAB/Simulink software tools to design, test, and ra...

Particle Size Determination: An undergraduate lab in Mie scattering