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Messiah University

The Engineering Department at Messiah University resides within the School of Science, Engineering & Health (SEH). Having been named several times to the Templeton Foundation’s Honor Roll for Character Building institutions, service to others is a hallmark of Messiah’s Christian tradition. Thus, Messiah Engineering students practice their technical competence through service projects in the engineering curriculum via student and faculty-led initiatives with external clients.

All engineering students participate in a multi-year project-based learning experience in consultation with this client as a primary partner. Often, such project work involves addressing the basic physical needs of underserved communities. Recently, the engineering department has also expanded its Bachelor of Science degree offerings to include discipline specific programs such as electrical engineering. This has led to investing in the Matrix Power and Energy Electronics (Locktronics) and Modern Electrical Machines equipment to support a lab on Power Electronics.

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“To facilitate hands-on student learning in our new Power Electronics lab, an upper divisional requirement of our Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering program, we invested in the Matrix Power and Energy Electronics (Locktronics) and Modern Electrical Machines equipment. The Locktronics kits clearly illustrate the range of basic power electronic circuits and their comparative performance. With Locktronics, these circuits can be quickly and easily assembled, tested, and disassembled.

The Electrical Machines equipment presents students to key DC and AC motor types with their unique torque versus speed characteristics and relative efficiencies. We find the modular and portable nature of both the Locktronics and the Electrical Machines equipment especially beneficial since we stack them in their plastic bins on shelves when not in use, stored in flexible multi-purpose lecture/lab classrooms. The software-driven interface/control of the electrical machines facilitates data collection to represent the torque-speed characteristic curves in a way that allows students to focus more on the results and applications, rather than getting too bogged down in manual data collection. Our students enjoy using the dyno-motor-under-test arrangement finding the 24 Volt system to be very practical and well-equipped with safety features appropriate for student work.”

Harold Underwood
Messiah University, United States of America

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