20)
“UTS Remote Labs, Labshare, recent references, and
and the Sahara Architecture,”
by D. Lowe, T. Machet, and
T. Kostulski
21) “Smart Labs 2.0 for Engineering
Education,” by D. Gillet and
C. Salzmann
22) “On the Use and Promotion
of Remote Labs in Portugal:
A Personal Commitment,” by
M.T. Restivo.
This is the second book after [1] pre-
sented by Prof. Javier Garcia Zubia from
the University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain,
with his colleagues. It includes world-
wide presentation, covering regions
from Australia to Canada and from
Argentina to Sweden as well as Uganda
and Nigeria. However, first it reflects
the individual involvement of a num-
ber of individuals who have dedicated
their efforts with enthusiasm to the de-
velopment and promotion of remote
labs as a modern educational resource.
I do not hesitate to recommend this
attractive text for a wide audience of
engineering educators interested in
e-learning and for the use of remote
laboratories.
—Marian P. Kazmierkowski
Reference
[1] L. Gomes and J. Garcia-Zubia, Eds., Advances
on Remote Laboratories and e-Learning Experi-
ences. Bilbao, Spain: Deusto, 2007. (See “Book
News,” Industrial Electronics Magazine, vol. 2,
no. 2, pp. 45–46, 2008.)
Power-Switching Converters
By Simon Ang
and Alejandro
Oliva, Third Edition,
CRC Press, Boca
Raton, Florida,
2011, hardcover,
619 pages, ISBN:
978-1-4398-1533-5.
T
he new enlarged third edition of
this textbook presents the lat-
est concepts and basics of dc-dc
converters, including analysis, simula-
tion, control, and selected applications.
Several new chapters and paragraphs,
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PSpice examples, and
a complete new chapter the new enlarged MATLAB scripts, are
presenting design case available at http://www.
third edition of
studies of switching con- crcpress.com.
verters have been added.
this textbook Summing up, I strong-
The book now has 14 chap‑ presents the ly recommend this well-
ters all together, covering latest concepts balanced textbook as
the following topics: and basics of a basic text for a wide
1) “Introduction to Swit­ dc-dc converters, audience of engineer-
ching Converters” ing educators, students,
including
2) “Basic Switching Con- and engineers in indus-
verter Topologies”
analysis, try. I believe that this
3) “Resonant Conver‑ simulation, updated third edition
ters” control, of the textbook will cer-
4) “Isolated Switching and selected tainly be at least as suc-
Converters” applications. cessful as the previous
5) “Control Schemes of two editions.
Switching Converters” —Marian P. Kazmierkowski
6) “Continuous-Time Modeling of
Switching Converters” (updated) Reference
[1] Marian K. Kazimierczuk, Pulse-Width Modu-
7) “Analog Control of Switching Con- lated dc-dc Power Converters. Hoboken, NJ:
verters” (updated) Wiley, 2008.
8) “Discrete-Time Modeling of Swit­
ching Converters” (updated) Power Theories
9) “Digital Control of Switching Con- for Improved Power Quality
verters” (updated) by Marian Pasko
10) “Interleaved Converters” and Grzegorz
11) “Switched Capacitor Converters” Benysek (Eds),
12) “Simulation of Switching Conver‑ Springer,
ters” London, 2012,
13) “Applications of Switching Conver­ hardcover, ISBN:
ters” (updated) 978-1-4471-2785-7.
14) “Switching Converter Design Case
Study” (new).
The description of technical
I
material is simple with the right n the Springer-Verlag series Power
amount of mathematics for under- Systems, Power Theories for Im-
graduate students. Each chapter is proved Power Quality is edited by
supplemented with adequate, well- Prof. Marian Pasko from the Gliwice
selected examples, a summary, and Technical University, Poland, and Prof.
problems at the end. Compared with Greg Benysek from the University of
the textbook [1], the presented book Zielona Góra, Poland.
edition also includes descriptions of Power quality is a term that de-
several actual and emerging applica- scribes a set of parameters of electric
tions of switching converters, includ- power and the load’s ability to func-
ing power factor correction systems, tion properly under specific condi-
low-noise dc-dc converters, switch- tions. Poor quality of electric power can
ing converters for solar and fuel cause overloading of the network and
cells, switching converters for LED the neutral wire, dangerous resonance
drivers, etc. phenomena, or even damage to the
The material covering the basic load. Generally, it can lead to large eco-
converter topologies in Chapters 1–4 nomic costs, particularly in countries
followed by modulation techniques with dynamic development of new tech-
in Chapter 5 can be used in an intro- nologies. It is estimated that problems
ductory course. The supplementary
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