Code and Name	EEE 312 Power Electronics
Type	Core, Engineering, Lecture
Credit Hours	3
Pre-requisites	EEE 211, MAT 350

Course Summary: This introductory course will give an overview of the major aspects of power electronics. Emphasis will be given on basic theoretical methods of calculation and design of important power electronic circuits such as: ac to dc uncontrolled and controlled rectifiers, ac voltage controllers, dc-dc converters, dc to ac inverters and power supplies. The course will also cover power semiconductor devices and wide application aspects of power electronic circuits using diodes, SCR, GTO, BJT, MOSFET, IGBT, rectifiers and switching circuits.

 Course Objectives: The objectives of this course are

1. to introduce power semiconductor devices, their switching principles and applications.
2. to explain the operation of AC-DC uncontrolled and controlled rectifier, DC-DC converters and DC-AC inverters.
3. to analyse the power electronic switch based rectifier, converters and inverters.
4. to introduce hardware tools for implementation of power electronic circuits.