Power Electronics (EE 40442)

University of Notre Dame


Fall 2014 - Enroll in EE40442 section 01
Fitz 356A - T/Th - 11:00-12:15
Office Hours: M.D. Lemmon - Wednesday 3-5 - Fitzpatrick 264
Office Hours: Zhao Wang - Wednesday 3-5 - Fitzpatrick 252

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Description: This course studies the use of electronics in the conversion of electrical power. The topics covered in this course include modeling, analysis, and control techniques for power electronics; the design of power circuits including inverters, rectifiers, and DC-DC converters; feedback control principles, and characteristics of real components. The course is primarily a lecture course with 4 one-week long lab sessions in which students design, build, and evaluate converters.

Topics

  1. Introduction to Power Processing
  2. Switching and Fourier Analysis (lab)
  3. Converter Concepts
  4. Buck Converter (lab)
  5. Boost and Buck-Boost Converters
  6. Flyback and Forward Converters
  7. Dynamic Models of Controlled Converters (lab)
  8. Small-signal Modeling of Buck Converter
  9. Controller Design (lab)
  10. Rectifiers and Inverters
Grading: 10% homework, 30% midterm (2), 30% final, 30% Labs
Instructor: Michael Lemmon, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 574-631-8309, lemmon at nd.edu
Teaching Assistant: Zhao Wang, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, zwang6 at nd.edu
Textbook: P.T. Krein, Elements of Power Electronics, Oxford Univ. Press, 1997
Additional References:
  1. Ned Mohan, Power Electronics: converters, applications, and design, 3rd edition, Wiley, 2002
  2. R.W. Erickson and D. Maksimovic, Fundamentals of Power Electronics, second edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.