2024 Faculty Courses School of Engineering Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Graduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Power electronics circuits and systems
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Hideaki Fujita
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 3-4 Fri
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- EEE.P412
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course presents analysis and control methods of power electronics circuits converting and controlling of electric power by using semiconductor switching power devices. It deals with switching transitions in MOSFETs and IGBTs, commutation in voltage-source bridge converters, voltage and current feedback control, applications to grid-connected converters, various grid-connection converters and related emerging technologies.
Analysis of power electronics circuit requires consideration of transient response in a very wide range of time scale from a utility grid period of 20 milli seconds to a switching transition of several hundred nano seconds. Although recent computers have a high calculation performance, a lot of computation would be required to analyze the dynamic response in a long duration with a quire small time step. This course introduces some analysis and modeling methods to solve the dynamic response of the power electronics converters effectively. These methods are also valuable for controlling these converters. Student are expected to study these fundamental methods as well as their applications to various other practical problems.
Course description and aims
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
1) Understand the basic structure and driving methods for power MOSFETs and insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs).
2) Understand the circuit topology and operating principles in basic power electronics circuits.
3) Analyze the operating characteristics of basic power electronics circuits.
Keywords
Power electronics, converter topologies, and power semiconductor devices.
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
The instructor will first present some circuit topologies, control schemes, and/or analysis methods. Students will have discussions on the assigned topics in the class.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Duality in power electronics circuit, canonical cells | Derivation of a dual converter circuit. |
| Class 2 | Losses in power devices, commutation in voltage-source converter, gate drive circuit | Performance evaluation of gate drive circuit. |
| Class 3 | Snubber and soft switching circuits | Design of a snubber circuit. |
| Class 4 | Resonant power conversion and its applications, operating modes, power control | Design of a resonant converter. |
| Class 5 | Magnetic components for power conversion: inductors and transformers | Design of a converter transformer. |
| Class 6 | Capacitors and filter circuits for power electronics | Design of a filter circuit |
| Class 7 | Multilevel converters and direct ac converters | Harmonic analysis |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Lecture slides will be delivered through T2SCHOLA.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
1) John G. Kassakian, Martin F. Schlecht, George C. Verghese, Principles of Power Electronics, Addison-Wesley Series in Electrical Engineering, ISBN-13: 978-0201096897
2) Ned Mohan, Tore M. Undeland and William P. Robbins, Power Electronics: Converters, Applications, and Design, ISBN-13: 978-0471226932
Evaluation methods and criteria
Grading depends on the reports.
Related courses
- EEE.P311 ： Power Electronics
- EEE.C261 ： Control theory
- EEE.C201 ： Electric Circuits I
- EEE.C202 ： Electric Circuits II
- EEE.P301 ： Electric Machinery and apparatus
Prerequisites
This course is based on the knowledge taught by the undergraduate "power electronics" course.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
Hideaki Fujita, fujita[at]ee.e.titech.ac.jp
Office hours
Please make appointment through email.