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Electrical Engineering MA, Electric Power Conversion , 7.5 credits

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2025-09-01 - Until further notice
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Syllabus:
Elektroteknik AV, Elektrisk energiomvandling , 7.5 hp
Electrical Engineering MA, Electric Power Conversion , 7.5 credits

General data

  • Code: ET001A
  • Subject/Main field: Electrical Engineering
  • Cycle: Second cycle
  • Credits: 7.5
  • Progressive specialization: A1N - Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
  • Education area: Technology 100%
  • Answerable department: Computer and Electrical Engineering
  • Approved: 2025-03-27
  • Version valid from: 2025-09-01

Aim

The purpose of the course is to introduce the student to power electronics and its needs in modern society. The course provides the student with a basic understanding of power semiconductors, their working principles and necessary control circuits as well as how they are used in various circuit solutions. Several common converter topologies are described and analyzed, as well as their various applications such as power supply from the power grid, voltage converters within an electronic system.

The student shall also be able to design and analyze a power electronics application at an overall level.

Course objectives

Upon completion of the course the student should be able to:

  • describe how different power electronic components such as diodes, bipolar transistors, MOSFETs, thyristors, GTOs, IGBTs work and how they are used in real circuit solutions,
  • calculate heat generation in electronics systems and design required cooling systems,
  • explain the need for magnetic components (transformers and inductors) and their function in power electronics,
  • design a power converter for a given application,
  • analyze different converter waveforms, voltage gain and performance, and
  • analyze an arbitraty converter and derive expressions for voltage gain, ripple current and voltage.

Content

The course is an introduction to power electronics and covers the following areas:

  • Power semiconductor devices
  • Gate/base drive circuits
  • Review of electric and magnetic circuit concepts
  • Heat generation in components and cooling
  • Diode rectifiers
  • Controlled rectification with thyristor circuits
  • Non-isolated and isolated DC/DC converters
  • DC/AC converters (inverters)
  • Multilevel converters
  • Resonant (soft switching) converters
  • Synchronous rectification

Entry requirements

Electrical Engineering, 22.5 credits, including Circuit Theory and Analog Electronics.

Selection rules and procedures

The selection process is in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance and the local order of admission.

Examination form

I102: Hand-in assignments, 2.5 Credits
Grade scale: Seven-grade scale, A-F o Fx

L101: Laboratory Work, 2 Credits
Grade scale: Two-grade scale

T102: Written exam, 3 Credits
Grade scale: Seven-grade scale, A-F o Fx

Link to grading criteria: https://www.miun.se/gradingcriteria.


The examiner has the right to offer alternative examination arrangements to students who have been granted the right to special support by Mid Sweden University’s disabilities adviser.


Grading system

Seven-grade scale, A-F o Fx

Course reading

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Required literature

**Author:**Erickson, Robert W.
**Title:**Fundamentals of Power Electronics
Edition: 3rd edition or later
**Publisher:**Springer

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The page was updated 10/14/2024