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)

• MOSFET switch application
• SCR application
• AC voltage control application
• Buck and boost converters
• Inverters