Module Title : Power Electronics
Module Code : BEEE420, BEM360

Course Objective
To provide the student with a comprehensive understanding of power electronic control principles and their applications to electrical drives.

Course Description
Power electronics devices and characteristics ac voltage controllers, dc choppers, forced and naturally commutated inverters.

Power electronic control of dc and ac motors. Choppers and controlled rectifiers based open and closed loop ac drives. Inverter drives. Application areas.

Small machine control, stepper motor, and switched reluctance drives.

Course Requirement
There will be 4 multiple-choice exams and course assignments (Reaction Papers). The objective is not to test your memorization skills but your ability to readily assimilate principles of economics and then apply the data and concepts to everyday problems and situations.

Course Assignments: Reaction Papers

The reaction paper is your opportunity to reflect and consider each chapter presented in this course.  It should contain your own thoughts, reactions, opinions, areas of agreement or disagreement that you arrive at as you progress through the course.  It may be a reaction to something you read in the text, or outside lecture material.  The paper should be hand-written in ink and a minimum of one page (front & back), single-spaced.

All papers must be submitted at the end of the course.

Grading Procedure
Multiple-choice exams are valued at 70% of final grade; assignment is 30% of final grade.