A web-based tool for a Power Electronics course

This paper presents a computer-aided educational package for the study of Power Electronics. This work is framed within the guidelines established by the European Higher Education Area, which promotes the active role of the students. The software includes: a dynamic and interactive tool for simulating steady-state ideal power electronics converters, multimedia resources as video animations of operation of power electronics circuits and self-evaluation test automatically corrected and graded by the software. The software provided highly favorable results when compared with students who did not use it.