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A New Laboratory for Hands-on Teaching of Electrical

Original A New Laboratory for Hands-on Teaching of / Cavagnino, Andrea; Pellegrino, Gianmario; Estebsari, Abouzar; Armando, Eric; Bojoi, Radu. - 2018-(2018), pp. 883-889. ((Intervento presentato al convegno 27th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE 2018 tenutosi a Cairns Converntion Centre, aus nel 2018.

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Published DOI:10.1109/ISIE.2018.8433848

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04 August 2020 A New Laboratory for Hands-on Teaching of Electrical Engineering

Andrea Cavagnino, Senior Member IEEE, Gianmario Pellegrino, Senior Member, IEEE, Abouzar Estebsari, Member, IEEE, Eric Armando, Member, IEEE, and Radu Bojoi, Senior Member, IEEE Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento Energia Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 – 10129, Torino – [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Abstract—This paper describes an innovative laboratory for deficiencies in the laboratories where they could directly carry students in Electrical Engineering courses, which is recently out practical works. However, it is important to observe that established at the Energy Department of Politecnico di Torino, ‘demonstrative’ laboratories have been generally available in Italy. The main peculiarities of the lab are the high ICT content the framework of many Electrical Engineering courses ‘to see’ of each test rig, the multidisciplinary experiences, and the hands- practical aspects of the theoretical concepts presented during on teaching methodology, allowing the student to have access in the lectures and seminars. However, in these kinds of overall safety to many complex electrical / electromechanical laboratories, students have not had hands-on experiences on systems. Currently, eight courses of Bachelor and Master of hardware, mainly due to hardware limitation and safety reasons Science degrees in electrical engineering carry out in-class when high voltage industrial apparatus and systems are exercises and hands-on experiments in the new lab, serving over intended to be used. In these cases, the experiments are 200 students in total per year. The innovative lab also allows for external collaborations with companies and institutions for conducted by the teachers and technical staffs, leading to a specific (and in some cases permanent) training offers, like a one- quite passive learning, which in some cases, even misses the day per month LabVIEW course for faculty and staff members practical aspects of the experiment setup [3], [4]. A more active of Politecnico di Torino. learning allowing for basic understanding of complex principles and concepts related to specific topics could be Keywords—Electrical engineering, hands-on laboratory, pursued with multimedia tools, tutorial and, in particular, multidisciplinary, student motivation and satisfaction, electrical simulations [5]-[7]. circuit theory, power system, electrical machines and drives, power A. Related works electronic, control, measurement and data acquisition. Towards the so-called active learning, there have been some implementations of laboratories for electrical engineering I. INTRODUCTION education. In [8], P. Shekhar and M. Borrego presented an In 1889 Galileo Ferraris founded the School of Electrical experience of active learning in electrical engineering Engineering, the first in Italy, at the Royal Italian In