About

Our story

How the lab began, how students learn by doing, and who joined and what happened in each academic year.

How the lab began

Over a decade ago, founder ir. Johan Woudstra started the lab, then called the Gelijkspanningslab. Its first research followed the move from alternating to direct current in household appliances: the DC Home.

Today researchers Peter van Duijsen (modelling and simulation) and Diëgo Zuidervliet (hardware design and power electronics) lead DC Power Laboratory 2.0.

The lab has grown into a power electronics research group working on high-power converters, digital twins and ways to control and protect commercial-scale DC grids.

Our research areas

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The Gelijkspanningslab in its first years · example photo for now

Learning by doing

Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics and Industrial Design Engineering students look for technical solutions together, on one platform.

MBO
Practical build, soldering and precise construction of the hardware prototypes.
HBO
Systems integration, embedded control software and the engineering design.
Master
Advanced control theory, simulation and grid management.

Together they build demonstrators and write international IEEE publications.

The lab, year by year

Each academic year the whole lab poses for one photo.

Eight lab members in front of a campus building and an electric vehicle, most holding a bottle
Group 2020-2021
The lab group under a De Haagse Hogeschool welcome banner at the campus entrance
Group 2021-2022
Students in red Coilcraft shirts between two researchers and the Gelijkspanning breng(t) je verder banners
Group 2022-2023
Students in lime lab shirts on lecture hall steps, with the two researchers on either side
Group 2023-2024

Timeline

Who joined, which projects ran and what made the news, by academic year.

The timeline is built from our news, project and people lists. Read the news