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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Description and Assessment of Activities Oriented to Enhance a First Course on Power Electronics
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Fernandez, C.; Zumel, P.; Sanz, M.; Lazaro, A.; Barrado, A. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2011
The ongoing search for excellence in education requires the review and renewal of teaching strategies, concentrating efforts on courses that are not attractive to students or are considered to be unsuccessful. This paper is focused on an undergraduate power electronics course in which students had poor academic results in the past. The actions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronics, Introductory Courses, Instructional Improvement
Step-by-Step Design of an FPGA-Based Digital Compensator for DC/DC Converters Oriented to an Introductory Course
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Zumel, P.; Fernandez, C.; Sanz, M.; Lazaro, A.; Barrado, A. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2011
In this paper, a short introductory course to introduce field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based digital control of dc/dc switching power converters is presented. Digital control based on specific hardware has been at the leading edge of low-medium power dc/dc switching converters in recent years. Besides industry's interest in this topic, from…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Minicourses, Electronic Equipment, Computer Assisted Design