I. Introduction
A particular aspect of power electronic courses is their interdisciplinary nature, which requires the integration of the practices and assumptions of each academic discipline involved, as well as calling for significant prerequisites on the part of the students enrolled. Fig. 1 illustrates this by analogy, with the prerequisite skills needed for a power electronics course being shown as the roots of a tree, the various power electronics devices and topologies as the trunk, and the resulting technologies and applications (power quality, renewable energy systems, etc.) as the branches.