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ENEX13002 Power Electronics
Power Electronics
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General Information

Overview

In this unit, you will build on your electronics knowledge previously acquired. You will learn more about power semiconductor devices and their modeling, such as diodes, silicon-controlled rectifiers (SCRs), metal oxide silicon field effect transistors (MOSFETs), and isolated gate bipolar junction transistors (IGBTs), including their theory of operation and limitations. You will also learn to calculate thermal dissipation requirements of power semiconductors and to choose suitable heat sinks. You will be introduced to the concepts of alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC), AC to AC, DC to DC, and DC to AC converters. You will analyse circuits and it's waveforms using Fourier analysis. You will also review different types of motors and learn about their drives and control, including DC motor drives and AC motor drives. You will learn to design/develop power electronics solutions and test them by simulation and prototyping in the lab. In this unit, you must complete compulsory practical activities. Refer to the Engineering Undergraduate Course Moodle site for proposed dates.

Details

Career Level: Undergraduate
Unit Level: Level 3
Credit Points: 6
Student Contribution Band: 8
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisites: (ENEX12002 Introductory Electronics OR ENEE13018 Analogue Electronics) AND (ENEX12001 Electrical Power and Machines OR ENEE12015 Electrical Power Engineering) ENEE12015 Electrical Power Engineering may be studied as a co-requisite.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

Offerings For Term 2 - 2025

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Attendance Requirements

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Previous Student Feedback

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Feedback from By email and in class.

Feedback

Students enjoyed the new LabVolt practicums and the reinforcement of theory work.

Recommendation

It is proposed that more links between the theory work and practicums be pointed out in the laboratory instruction document and during the actual laboratory sessions.

Feedback from Unit evaluation and emails.

Feedback

Unit Evaluation feedback showed lower scores for 'Clear Unit Requirements', 'Useful Learning Materials' and 'Learnt From Assessments', possibly interconnected. The high study workload, coupled with many students having full-time jobs, seems to result in a survival-mode approach. Shortcomings in recent assessments show that some students do not know under which week the work is found in Moodle or where in the textbook to fetch relevant information.

Recommendation

It is proposed that weekly contact sessions should focus on: (i) Introducing students to the assessment questions and their technical content. (ii) Showing students where to find the required information in Moodle and the textbook. (iii) How to synthesise the information to overcome the challenge/s presented by the assessment questions.

Unit Learning Outcomes

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