University power electronic education through an industrial battery charger design project - A case study

To train our postgraduate students to be effective, we involve them in indu strial consultancy projects for their first 6-12 months, where they do the major parr of the work. This provides excellent training on a small scale w ith practical aspects, such that the students and their projects can be clo sely supervised and guidance supplied, and hence rapid learning occurs. Thi s paper looks at the lessons learnt from an industrial battery charger.