Application of an intelligent tutoring system in electrical engineering education

An intelligent tutoring system is used to support the education of power and electrical engineering students. The aim of this project is to make teaching and learning more productive and efficient by employing modern technologies. It seeks to find new methods to teach large number of students with no increase in staff. Intelligent tutorials are developed based on an expert system shell. They provide the functionally interacted set of theory and problems, and support the student progress monitoring and assessment. The paper describes the development of tutoring software for teaching electrical engineering subjects, and in particular, fault analysis in power systems. The expert system based software has been developed and successfully used by power systems students. They found this software easy to use and understand, and it will become an extra teaching tool.