INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS AND POWER DEVICES M.ENG/MSC

First Semester

Course Code Title Credit Hours

Ancillary Courses

PGC 601 Research Methodology and ICT in Engineering 3

ACE 601 Methods of Engineering Design and Systems Analysis 3

ACE 603 Masters Seminar 3

Compulsory Core Courses

ACE 641 Power Semiconductor Devices 3

ACE 643 Modelling of Electric Machines 3

ACE 611 Principles of Renewable and New Energy Technologies 3

ACE 651 Advanced Principles of Control Systems 3

Elective Core Courses (Candidates to Choose One)

ACE 625 Power System Analysis I 3

ACE 653 Instrumentation and Control for Power Plants 3

Sub-Total 24

Second Semester

Ancillary Courses

ACE 602 Industrial Internship 1

ACE 692 Masters Project 6

Compulsory Core Courses

ACE 642 Power Electronics Converters and Systems 3

ACE 644 Control of Electric Machines 3

ACE 652 Logic Control Circuits in Power Engineering 3

ACE 646 Application of Industrial Electronics in Power and Energy Systems 3

ACE 640 Electro-Heating Processes 3

Elective Core Courses (Candidates to Choose One)

ACE 648 Energy Storage Technologies 3

ACE 670 Mechatronics and Robotics 3

Sub-Total 25

Grand Total 49

Logic Control Circuits in Power Engineering

ACE 652 Logic Control Circuits in Power Engineering (3 Credit Hours)

Digital logic families, linear integrated circuit components, small signal discrete components and

their main specifications. Common transducers, Microprocessor programmed logic. Design of

firing/gating logic circuits for controlled rectifiers, inverters, choppers and cyclo-converters.

Design of voltage, current, power and frequency regulation circuits for motor drives and power

supplies. Microprocessor-based logic control methods.

Power Electronics Converters and Systems

ACE 642 Power Electronics Converters and Systems (3 Credit Hours)

Design, analysis and control of switch-mode power supply topologies namely:

i. DC to DC Converters

ii. AC to DC Converters

iii. DC to AC Converters

Case study applications in computers, communications gadgets, sensor/metering gadgets,

medical devices, energy saving lighting systems/displays, electric vehicles, electric power

storage systems, power system controllers etc. Efficiency optimization of switch mode power

supply.

Power Semiconductor Devices

ACE 641 Power Semiconductor Devices (3 Credit Hours)

Review of structures, characteristics, modelling, safe operating requirement and protection of

silicon/silicon-carbide/gallium-nitride based power semiconductor devices namely:

i. Power Diodes.

ii. Power Transistors (Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJTs), Fields Effect Transistors (FETs),

Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MOSFETs), Insulated Gate

Bipolar Transistors (IGBTs)).

iii. Thyristors (Silicon controlled Rectifiers (SCRs), Gate Turn off Thyristors (GTOs), Triacs

and MOS controlled Thyristors (MCTs)).

Power semiconductor device integration and fabrication techniques to achieve high breakdown

voltages, high current carrying capability, low on resistance, fast switching speed and high

reliability.