ECTS - Power Electronics
Power Electronics (EE454) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power Electronics | EE454 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| EE352 |
| Course Language | English |
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| Course Type | N/A |
| Course Level | Natural & Applied Sciences Master's Degree |
| Mode of Delivery | Mix |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Experiment, Question and Answer. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | Getting familiar to the fundamental power electronic semiconductor devices, providing knowledge of how to drive and protect the power electronic semiconductor devices, introducing the basic power electronic circuits where the power switching devices are used, and providing knowledge on the operation principles of them. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | Power electronic semiconductor devices, calculation of losses in power semiconductor devices, snubber design, heat sink design, design of snubber circuits, gate drive circuits and isolation, AC choppers, single-phase and three-phase rectifiers, switch mode power supply topologies., inverters. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to power electronics, related topics. Semiconductor devices: Diode, Thyristor | Glance this week’s topics from the course book. |
| 2 | Triac, Power Transistor, MOSFET, IGBT, GTO, MCT, SIT, IGCT, MOS turn-off thyristor. | Review last week and glance this week’s topics from your course supplements. |
| 3 | Calculation of losses in power semiconductor devices; (conduction loss, switching loss). Heat sink design. Design of snubber circuits. | Review last week and glance this week’s topics from your course supplements |
| 4 | Gate drive circuits and isolation. Single phase AC choppers. | Review last week and glance this week’s topics from your course supplements. |
| 5 | Switch mode power supplies: Theory and types. Flyback converter | Review last week and glance this week’s topics from your course supplements. |
| 6 | Buck converter. Boost converter. | Review last week and glance this week’s topics from your course supplements. |
| 7 | Rectifiers. Single phase uncontrolled (diode) bridge rectifiers. | Review last week and glance this week’s topics from your course supplements. |
| 8 | Smoothing methods. Power factors. Single phase controlled (thyristor) bridge rectifiers. | Review all topics up to this point |
| 9 | Analysis of Three phase half-bridge uncontrolled(diode) / controlled (Thyristor) rectifiers. | Review last week and glance this week’s topics from your course supplements. |
| 10 | Midterm examination | Review last week and glance this week’s topics from your course supplements. |
| 11 | Freewheeling operation. Three phase full-bridge uncontrolled (diode) rectifiers. | Review last week and glance this week’s topics from your course supplements. |
| 12 | Characteristics of the line current. Three phase full-bridge controlled (Thyristor) rectifiers.. | Review last week and glance this week’s topics from your course supplements. |
| 13 | Midterm examination | Review last week and glance this week’s topics from your course supplements. |
| 14 | Single Phase Inverter. Modulation index, frequency ratio. | Review last week and glance this week’s topics from your course supplements |
| 15 | Voltage and frequency control methods of the single-phase inverter. Harmonic analysis of the single phase inverter. Three-phase inverters. | Review last week and glance this week’s topics from your course supplements. |
| 16 | Final examination | Review all topics |
Sources
| Other Sources | 1. Lecture notes: Prof. Dr. Sedat SÜNTER. |
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| Course Book | 2. Power Electronics: Circuit, Devices, and Applications. Muhammad H. Rashid, Pearson 2014. |
| 3. Power Electronics Converters, Applications and Design (2ed) by Mohan, Undeland and Robbins, Wiley publishing. |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | - | - |
| Laboratory | 4 | 20 |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | - | - |
| Presentation | - | - |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | 1 | 10 |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 2 | 70 |
| Toplam | 7 | 100 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 100 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | X |
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| Major Area Courses | |
| Supportive Courses | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
| Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
| # | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Ability to apply knowledge on Mathematics, Science and Engineering to advanced systems. | |||||
| 2 | Implementing long-term research and development studies in the major fields of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. | |||||
| 3 | Ability to use modern engineering tools, techniques and facilities in design and other engineering applications. | |||||
| 4 | Graduating researchers active on innovation and entrepreneurship. | |||||
| 5 | Ability to report and present research results effectively. | |||||
| 6 | Increasing the performance on accessing information resources and on following recent developments in science and technology. | |||||
| 7 | An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. | |||||
| 8 | Increasing the performance on effective communications in both Turkish and English. | |||||
| 9 | Increasing the performance on project management. | |||||
| 10 | Ability to work successfully at project teams in interdisciplinary fields. | |||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 4 | 3 | 12 |
| Application | |||
| Special Course Internship | |||
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | |||
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | |||
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 18 | 18 |
| Total Workload | 126 | ||