As electro-mechanical systems become commonplace on modern machines, the engineers who design those systems increasingly have to answer some tough questions about the positioning accuracy, speed, potential for noise and robustness. All these electro-mechanical performance characteristics revolve around the dynamic properties of the machine.

Space-Vector Pulse Width Modulation (SV-PWM) is a well-known modulation strategy in electric drives (also used in power electronics). However, a simple explanation of its analysis and its hardware implementation is lacking, which is the focus of this paper.

This paper describes the developments at the University of Minnesota of new approach in teaching of Electric drives, focusing on the associate state-of-the-art laboratory. The mission of these developments is to nationally revitalize courses in industrially and strategically vital fields of electric drives (and power electronics [7]). This is accomplished by making these courses appealing to students (undergraduate enrollments have significantly