Lighting systems: A course for increasing power electronics attractiveness in non-specialized engineer school?

This paper presents a new course on lighting systems in a French non-specialized engineer school. This course was conceived to increase student attractiveness for power electronics. After two years of unfolding, the conclusions are interesting. A survey has shown that students were not really more interested in power electronics. The only students' plebiscite is the lighting design using DIALux software. The module is described and placed into the context of a non-specialized engineer school. Students' opinion is then analyzed and capitalized to find why power electronics does not look as an interesting subject for these specific engineers.