GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
ADVANCED POWER ELECTRONICS/5421306
Course Title: ADVANCED POWER ELECTRONICS
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Course Semester 1 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
Can explain the operating principles of the power converters
Can analyze the converter circuits, define the variables and derive the formulas required for the design of the converters
Can design converters for any given specifications
Can determine the voltage and current stresses appearing on the switching elements, suggest and develop protection mechanisms to increase reliability
Can suggest design solutions for improved efficiency and better performance of converters
Can develop simulation models and perform simulation of converters
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Single-Phase Rectifiers, Current Harmonics, Effects of Harmonics on Grid Power Quality
2. Week  Multi-Phase Rectifiers
3. Week  Buck, Boost, and Buck-Boost Type DC/DC Converters
4. Week  Cuk and SEPIC Type DC/DC Converters
5. Week  Lossy and Lossless Snubber Circuits
6. Week  Soft Switching and Resonant Mode Type DC/DC Converters
7. Week  Midterm Exam 1
8. Week  Single-Phase and Three-Phase Inverters
9. Week  Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) Techniques
10. Week  Space Vector Modulation Technique (SVPWM)
11. Week  Series and Parallel Resonance Inverters
12. Week  PWM Rectifiers
13. Week  Midterm Exam 2
14. Week  AC Voltage Regulators and Matrix Converters
15. Week  Semiconductor Power Devices (Diode, MOSFET, IGBT) and Wide-Band Gap Semiconductor Devices
16. Week  Recent Applications in Power Electronics
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
2
40
 Assignment
3
30
 Application
0
0
 Projects
1
30
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
60
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
40
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
3
42
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
 Reading Tasks
14
2
28
 Searching in Internet and Library
14
2
28
 Material Design and Implementation
3
9
27
 Report Preparing
1
20
20
 Preparing a Presentation
0
 Presentation
0
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
2
15
30
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
1
15
15
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
190
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.6
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1X
2X
3X
4X
5X
6X
7X
8X
9X
10X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Doç. Dr. Bünyamin TAMYÜREK)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/btamyurek)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (btamyurek@gazi.edu.tr)