Power electronics are important in managing applications such as hybrid vehicles, power supplies, and induction heating to name a few. Power electronics mainly involve the control and conversion of an energy source from one form to another. The encasing of these devices requires design that will enhance thermal dissipation along with the improvement of electrical properties. The packaging of PE...

Power electronics is important in managing such applications as hybrid vehicles, power supplies, and induction heating to name a few. Power electronics mainly involves the control and conversion of an energy source from one form to another. The encasing of these devices requires design that will enhance thermal dissipation along with the improvement of electrical properties. The packaging of PE...

The technology of power electronics has gone through rapid technological advancement during the last four decades, and recently, its applications are fast expanding in industrial, commercial, residential, military and utility environments. In the global industrial automation, energy conservation and environmental pollution control trends of the 21st century, the widespread impact of power elect...

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...

Sustainable development and engineering ethics as well as social aspects of engineering are emerging issues related to power electronics. Several important topics like environmentally sustainable products and electromagnetic compatibility fit into this description. Therefore, these issues have recently become part of the advanced course on power electronics at Lund University. The authors’ inte...