Active learning in power electronics: From classroom to laboratory

Changing the paradigm from lecture teaching to student learning an experience has been successfully carried out in a 3^rd course in the degree: there will not be lecture sessions or lab sessions any more. Students go directly to laboratory and the sessions take place on guided experiments about each analyzed topology in the syllabus. So theoretical analysis, modeling and simulation and experimental results of power electronics topologies are carried out together by students in an active learning methodology. The facilities have been disposed in a suitable way in order to become it flexible and have got a wide set of equipment that allows to perform lecture sessions, modeling and simulation skills, web based activities or lab experiments. Moreover, a professional power systems simulation tool with limited license is offered to each student in order to support his learning process at home same as that in classroom.