What is it about?
This paper describes a laboratory-based teaching proposal for the understanding of three-phase circuits at the undergraduate level of engineering degrees. The practical content of the proposed activities is oriented towards easing the students’ understanding of the main concepts involved in three-phase circuits. The subject of three-phase circuits forms the basis for an elementary undergraduate course on circuit analysis. This work proposes simple and didactic laboratory lessons for the long-term understanding of many concepts involved in three-phase circuits which are often covered by only theory or simulation. The practical teaching proposed has been successfully implemented in the Industrial School of Engineering of the University of Seville and can easily be included in the laboratory curriculum of other Engineering schools.
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Why is it important?
Training on real measurement equipment is very helpful to test students’ theoretical understanding of measuring quantities. During the laboratory class, students develop appropriate familiarity with the measurement system available, including ammeters, voltmeters and watt-meters.
Perspectives
The implementation of a three-phase network laboratory and the design of specific activities to enhance theoretical teaching has proved to be an efficient way of improving the teaching-learning process at the University of Seville over recent years. Some results have shown that students are more interested in hands-on experiments because of showing real conditions and problems more effectively.
Dr. Pedro Jose Martinez-Lacañina
Electrical Engineering Department - University of Seville
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This page is a summary of: Laboratory work in teaching basic three-phase electrical circuits, International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education, July 2010, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.7227/ijeee.47.3.5.
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