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Serbia and Montenegro

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The First Technical Meeting of the EdSoc Chapter of Serbia and Montenegro (November 28, 2005)

Educational impact of the IEEE Future Energy Challenge students competion

Slobodan N. Vukosavic, Nikola Milivojevic, ETF, Belgrade, Serbia

Electric motor drive technology is constantly evolving and expanding to new applications. Advanced electric motor drives are capable of an increased performance because of the availability of low cost, high throughput DSP devices capable of monitoring and controlling the motor output. Under conditions of the IEEE Future Energy Challenge students contest, MiniDrive team of undergraduates from School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade (ETF, Belgrade) has taken on the task of creating innovations in motor that would provide the user with a significant savings in both energy and operating cost through an improved efficiency. This paper presents the educational impact of the contest. Bringing and implementing technical innovations, teamwork and technical documentation, the project made a significant advantage for undergraduate participants, who actually won the contest first prize.