Power Electronics

(2-0-2-3)

CMPE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the CMPE degree.

EE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the EE degree.

Lab Hours: 2 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.

Technical Interest Groups / Course Categories: Electrical Energy, Threads / ECE Electives

Course Coordinator: Lukas Graber

Prerequisites: ECE 3040 [min C] and ECE 3043 [min C]

Catalog Description

Introduces power semiconductor devices and power electronic converters, including single-phase and three-phase ac/dc rectifiers, ac voltage controllers, dc/dc converters and dc/ac inverters.

Textbook(s)

Power Electronics, A First Course

Course Outcomes

Design and analyze basic power converter circuits across a range of applications. 

Explain how parasitics at the device level impact performance at a system level. 

Model the behavior of systems in frequency and time domain. 

Extract linearized operating models of non-linear systems at a given operating point. 

Apply basic principles to complex real life design problems with multiple constraints.

Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)

N/A

Topic List

  1. Introduction (1 week)
  2. Principles of power conversion (2 weeks)
  3. DC/DC Converters (2 weeks)
  4. AC/DC Rectifiers (1 week)
  5. Real Converter Issues (2 weeks)
  6. AC/DC Converters with galvanic isolation - switching power supplies (2 weeks)
  7. DC/AC Inverters (1 week)
  8. Control of power converters (1 week)
  9. Examples of power converter applications (1 week)