EE 444 - Power Electronics

• Demonstrate an understanding of the electrical characteristics of power semiconductor devices.
• Analyze power semiconductor circuits operating at high power levels under transient and steady state conditions.
• Develop the skills necessary to use the computer to analyze and design power conversion circuits.
• Develop the understanding of important considerations in the design of power conversion and switching circuits.

• Steady state and transient circuit analysis.
• Electrical characteristics of diodes, bipolar junction transistors and field effect transistors.
• Analysis of circuits with diodes and transistors.
• Frequency response of electrical circuits.

• Power Electronics applications (2 classes)
• Power Electronics semiconductor devices (3 classes)
• Rectifiers (2 classes)
• Line-controlled converters (2 classes)
• DC-DC converters (3 classes)
• DC power supplies (2 classes)
• Square-wave inverters (2 classes)
• PWM inverters (2 classes)
• Resonant converters (3 classes)
• Practical circuit techniques (3 classes)
• Review (3 classes)
• Exams (2 classes)
• Holiday (1 class)

• Line-controlled SCR experiment should be done under instructor supervision in S341
• Project assignments are available in O:\EECS\EECS Program Specific\EE\Curriculum Library\Jevtic\EE444\Projects folder