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EE511, Spring 2006 Syllabus

University of North Dakota

Department of Electrical Engineering

EE511 – Industrial (Power) Electronics

Spring Semester 2006
Course Homepage: http://power.ee.und.nodak.edu

MWF 2:00 - 2:50 P.M.

UPSON II - 261

General Course Information:

EE511: Industrial (Power) Electronics. 3 credits. This course covers the principles of semiconduc-
tor switching devices and their application to the design and operation of various industrial elec-
tronic control circuits (also known as power electronics circuits) such as controlled/uncontrolled
ac-to-ac, ac-to-dc, dc-to-ac, and dc-to-dc converters, switch-mode power supplies, PWM tech-
niques for voltage and frequency control, and some of the basics of variable speed electric drive
control systems. The course will engage students using a combination of lectures, interactive
learning tools, computer-based simulation techniques, and hands-on hardware laboratory exper-
iments and projects. This format will provide students with an exciting experience in the rapidly
growing area of industrial power electronics and its every day applications.

Using interactive and animated educational tools, students will have the opportunity to study, visu-
alize, and effectively comprehend the principles of various semiconductor switching devices and
their applications. Students will have access to these interactive tools through any Java enabled
world wide web browser such as Netscape or Microsoft IE.

Students will use one of the computer programming softwares such as MATLAB, MATHCAD,
PSpice, PSIM, or the JAVA programming language to simulate and design various power elec-
tronic devices/circuits. No prior programming skills are required as the necessary basics and
tools will be discussed in class and sample codes will be made available to students.

Using the available state-of-the-art power electronics hardware laboratory in the Department,
students will gain a hands-on experience in various concepts and principles discussed in class.
This approach will give the students the opportunity to practically test, compare, and verify the
theoretical and practical performance of power electronics devices and systems.

Goal: The main objective of this course is to present the principles of industrial power
electronics and its applications so that students will learn to: 1) model, ana-
lyze, and design high frequency ac-to-dc switch rectifiers and phase inverters,
2) model, analyze, and design high frequency dc-to-dc switch converters, and 3)
model, analyze, and design high frequency ac-to-ac switch converters. Various

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design issues, problems, and industry applications of these power electronics

circuits will be discussed.

Textbook: Power Electronic Circuits, By: Issa Batarseh, 2004, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN:
0-471-12662-4.

Prerequisites: EE321 - Electronics I. This prerequisite must have been completed with a “C”
grade or better.

Some Suggested References:

[1]. Muhammad H. Rashid, Power Electronics: Circuits, Devices, and Applications (Prentice Hall, 2004),
Third Edition.

[2]. Mohan, Undeland, and Robbins, POWER ELECTRONICS: CONVERTERS, APPLICATIONS AND
DESIGN (John Wiley, 1989).

[3]. Martin, Vergues and Kassikian, PRINCIPLES OF POWER ELECTRONICS, (John Wiley, 1991).

[4]. J. N. Ross, The Essence of Power Electronics, (Prentice Hall 1997).

[5]. B. W. Williams, POWER ELECTRONICS: DEVICES, DRIVERS AND APPLICATIONS, (John Wiley,
1987).

[6]. George Chryssis, HIGH-FREQUENCY SWITCHING POWER SUPPLIES: THEORY AND DESIGN,
2nd Edition, (McGraw Hill, 1989).

[7]. R. Severns and G. Bloom, MODERN DC-TO-DC SWITCHMODE POWER CONVERTER CIRCUITS,
( Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985).

[8]. B.K. Bose, POWER ELECTRONICS AND DRIVES, (Prentice Hall ).

[9]. G. Seguier, POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS AC/DC CONVERSION, (McGraw Hill 1987)

[10]. C. Rombaut and G. Seguier, POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS AC/AC CONVERSION, (Mc-
Graw Hill 1987)

[11]. Klemens Heumann, BASIC PRINCIPLES OF POWER ELECTRONICS, (Spring-Verlag, Berlin 1986).

[12]. Eiichi Ohno, INTRODUCTION TO POWER ELECTRONICS, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK 1988).

[13]. Eugene Hnatek, DESIGN OF SOLID STATE POWER SUPPLIES, (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989).

[14]. Ralph Tarter, SOLID-STATE POWER CONVERSION HANDBOOK, (John Wiley, 1983)

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Instructor: H. Salehfar, Professor of Electrical Engineering

Office: 160-D, Upson II
Phone: (701) 777-4432, FAX: (701) 777-5253
Email: hsalehfar@und.nodak.edu
WWW Home Page: http://power.ee.und.nodak.edu
Office Hours: WF 3:00 - 4:30 PM, or by appointment.

Course Requirements and Policy:

The course requirements and evaluation policy are as follows.

Attendance: Students are strongly encouraged to actively attend and participate in class dis-
cussions and presentations. It is highly recommended that students ask questions
during the instructor’s presentations. Class discussions, questions, and answers
will definitely clarify most of the text concepts and will help students in their home-
work assignments and exams.

Homework: There will be about eight to ten homework assignments throughout the semester.
Each assignment will be due a few days after a corresponding chapter is com-
pleted. At least a week will be given to complete each assignment. The exact
due dates will be announced in class when necessary. However, it is recom-
mended that students keep on working on their assignments as progress is made
in class discussing various relevant chapters or sections of the textbook. Each
assignment will be graded on a scale of 0 to 100. Copies of the solutions to
all homework problems will be made available on the course’s internet site at
http://power.ee.und.nodak.edu after the due dates. Late homework, without rea-
sonable excuses, will not be accepted.

Computers: All or some of the homework and laboratory assignments will involve the use
of software programs such as PSpice, MATLAB, or MATHCAD. However, no pro-
gramming skills are required for this course as detailed will be available to students
on the course’s WWW page to show the use of various software programs in solv-
ing sample solutions problems. The PSpice, MATLAB, and MATHCAD programs
are available to students on the computer network of the School of Engineering
at UND. Students may download or request a free student version copy of the
PSpice program on CD-ROM directly from EMA Design Automation Web site at:
http://www.ema-eda.com/products/orcad/requestdemocd.aspx
A very powerful and industry based program specifically designed for power elec-
tronics is PSIM from powersim Inc. A limited but functional version of this program
is freely available at: http://www.powersimtech.com

WWW Site: All the homework solutions, announcements, handouts, copies of old exams, etc.
will be available to students on a 24 hour basis at instructor’s WWW homepage:
http://power.ee.und.nodak.edu. To fully utilize the materials at this homepage
students need to have a copy of the Adobe’s Acrobat Reader program running

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on their personal computers. Acrobat Reader is freely available to the public. For
its download instructions please visit the above homepage.

Labs: A number of laboratory projects will be assigned throughout the semester to pro-
vide students with hands-on experiences. In each project, individual students or
groups of two will be asked to build, simulate, and analyze an actual power elec-
tronics circuit. The objective here is to provide students with hands-on experience
and allow them to apply and verify the theoretical concepts they learn in class.
Laboratory activities and analysis procedures will be documented by students
and turned in for evaluation and feedback. Students will have the opportunity to
improve their work based on the feedback they receive from the instructor. The
laboratory reports should be documented in a journal format by students to show
their progress in understanding and learning the relevant materials. The journal
grade(s) will be determined by the technical contents, material presentation, and
writing style. The students will present their final hardware project in class during
the last week of classes.

Exams: There will be one midterm exam and a final exam as noted on the schedule.
There will be no makeup exams. Exams will be open book but closed notes.

Grading: Letter grades will be assigned based on the student’s standing relative to all other
students in the class. Therefore, no predetermined percentages can be assigned
to the letter grades. The grade distribution of the hour exams will be given so that
each student will know their class standing during the semester. Students will be
able to check their grades and progress at the internet home page of the course
using their password. More details on the internet based GradeBook is available
at the course’s home page. The course grade percentages may be lowered from
those in the following Table depending on the overall class performance. The
assignment of final grades and the grade distribution policy are as follows.

A 90-100%
B 80-89%
C 70-79%
D 60-69%
F < 59%

Type of Work Course Percentage

Homework 20%
Computer Simulation Projects 20%
Hardware Laboratory Projects & Journal 20%
Midterm Exam 20%
Final Exam 20%
Total 100%

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Class Topics, Assignments, Exams, and Dates:

A list of topics that will be discussed in class and homework problems are shown in the following
tables. Additional problems involving the use of computers will also be assigned when necessary.
To solve these problems, PSpice, PSIM, MATLAB, or MATHCAD software programs maybe used.
Again, no programming skills are required.

Chapter Discussion Topic

1 Introduction
2 Review of Switching Concepts and Power Semiconductor Devices
3 Switching Circuits, Power Computations, and Component Concepts
7 Uncontrolled Diode Rectifier Circuits
8 Phase-Controlled Converters
9 DC-AC Inverters

Assignment Due Dates: Homeworks, simulations, and laboratory reports are due in class
one week after the date they are assigned. It is recommended,
however, that students start working on these assignments as we make
progress in each related chapter. Please don’t wait for the instructor
to cover the whole chapter before you start working on your
assignments!

Chapter Problems
1 TBA
2 TBA
3 TBA
7 TBA
8 TBA
9 TBA

Exam Dates: The following Table shows the exam dates, the chapters they will cover, and
their location. The exact date of the midterm exam will be announced right
after the corresponding chapters are covered and a week before the actual
day of the exam in order to give students enough time to prepare themselves.

Exam Chapters Date Time Place

Midterm 1, 2, 3, 7 TBA 2:00-2:50 P.M. UPSON II 261
Final Comprehensive Monday, May 8, 2006 1:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M. UPSON II 261

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