Education

Education is a major part of the Sustainable Power Laboratory’s work. A wide variety of SPL’s facilities is used in the education of bachelor and master programs.  PhD education is a further significant SPL activity, which is covered under Research.

Around 400 students from KTH BSc and MSc programs use the lab each year, within courses on Circuit Analysis, Electric Power Engineering, Electric Machines, and Power Electronics. These courses use sets of identical benches, with sources and instruments suited either to low-power electronics or to higher-power electronics and rotating machines.

Besides the regular courses, there are BSc and MSc thesis-works, project-courses and group projects, in which a subset of students have experiment-based tasks in such diverse subjects as motor control, high-voltage breakdown testing, motor evaluation for electric boats, detection of wiring faults, microgrid control, optimization of battery energy storage, etc.  These use all the main facilities of the lab, often with their own bench and setup for the duration of the project.