Abstract
Maintenance of electric machines and installations is a particularly important area; eventual faults in these devices may lead to significant losses in terms of time and money. The investment and concern in developing proper maintenance protocols have been gradually increasing over recent decades. As a consequence, there is a need to instruct future engineers in the electric machines and installations maintenance area. The subject "Maintenance of Electric Machines and Installations" has been designed under this idea. It is taught within an official master degree in Maintenance Engineering. This work describes the educational experiences reached during the initial years of the teaching of the subject. Aspects such as student profiles, subject approaches, design of the syllabus, methodology and structure of the laboratory sessions are remarked in the work. In addition, the paper discusses other educational strategies which are being introduced to increase the interest in the subject, such as integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), promotion of the collaborative work, inclusion of the possibility of remote learning or development of new assessment systems.
Highlights
The evolution of industrial maintenance over the last century clearly reflects the increasing importance and attention that this area has been progressively attracting
The foundations of the fault diagnosis techniques are explained during the theoretical lectures so that, during the laboratory sessions, the students can directly apply the concepts studied during the lectures
Integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the teaching process is a goal that has been pursued since years ago
Summary
The evolution of industrial maintenance over the last century clearly reflects the increasing importance and attention that this area has been progressively attracting. This classical fault diagnosis method, though widely spread in the industry, has some important drawbacks which have been studied in detail in the literature [4,5,6]. The utilization of the classical FFT-based diagnosis approach in many industrial applications together with the incipient introduction of the novel transient-based diagnosis methodologies (as well as their increasing importance within the research strategies of many electric machine manufacturers) make the instruction of the students on the foundations and operation of both approaches very desirable in a subject focused on electric machines maintenance. The paper is structured as follows: Section II briefly explains the educational context in which the teaching is carried out, Section III described the educational methodology with regards to theoretical and laboratory sessions, Section IV describes eventual educational enhancement strategies and, in Section V the conclusions are explained
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