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ECEN 4797 - Introduction to Power Electronics

Elective - 3 credit hours
Meets with ECEN 5797

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Catalog Description: An introduction to switched-mode converters. Steady-state converter modeling and analysis, switch realization, discontinuous conduction mode, and transformer-isolated converters. AC modeling of converters using averaged methods, small-signal transfer functions, feedback loop design, and transformer design.

Prerequisite: ECEN 3250, Circuits/Electronics 3

Textbook: Erickson and Maksimovic, Fundamentals of Power Electronics, 2000.

Course Objectives: To provide students with the fundamental concepts of power electronics and to equip them for advanced study and research in the area.

Topics:

  1. PWM converters.
  2. Equilibrium analysis and design techniques.
  3. Dynamic modeling using the state space averaging method.
  4. Regulator design techniques
  5. Semiconductor switches.
  6. Magnetics modeling and design.
Class schedule: 3 hours of lecture per week

Contribution of course to meeting Criterion 4, the professional component: This course provides 3 semester hours of electrical engineering topics consisting of engineering sciences and engineering design.

Relationship of course to program outcomes: This course is not required and is not included in outcomes assessment.

Prepared by: Vincent Heuring
June 29, 2005