Design modern switched-mode power converters; create high-performance control loops around power converters; understand efficiency, power density and cost trade-offs
Power Electronics Specialization
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Power Electronics Specialization
Expand your Engineering Excellence. Create modern power electronics systems for our devices, transportation and infrastructure.
Instructor: Dr. Robert Erickson
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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
(3,227 reviews)
Intermediate level
Some related experience required
2 months at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers
What you'll learn
Skills you'll gain
- Power Electronics
- Mathematical Modeling
- Electronic Systems
- Electric Power Systems
- Control Systems
- Engineering Analysis
- Technical Design
- Electrical Power
- Electronic Components
- Simulation and Simulation Software
- Engineering Design Process
- Systems Design
- Electronics Engineering
- Electronics
- Design Specifications
- Electrical Engineering
- Semiconductors
- Systems Analysis
- Basic Electrical Systems
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Specialization - 4 course series
What you'll learn
Understand what a switched-mode converter is and its basic operating principles
Be able to solve for the steady-state voltages and currents of step-down, step-up, inverting, and other power converters
Know how to derive an averaged equivalent circuit model and solve for the converter efficiency
Skills you'll gain
Category: Power Electronics
Category: Simulation and Simulation Software
Category: Electric Power Systems
Category: Applied Mathematics
Category: Engineering Analysis
Category: Electrical Power
Category: Electronic Systems
Category: Electrical Engineering
Category: Electronics
Category: Basic Electrical Systems
What you'll learn
Understand how to implement the power semiconductor devices in a switching converter
Understand the origins of the discontinuous conduction mode and be able to solve converters operating in DCM
Understand the basic dc-dc converter and dc-ac inverter circuits
Understand how to implement transformer isolation in a dc-dc converter, including the popular forward and flyback converter topologies
Skills you'll gain
Category: Power Electronics
Category: Semiconductors
Category: Electronics
Category: Electronic Components
Category: Simulation and Simulation Software
Category: Electronics Engineering
Category: Electrical Engineering
What you'll learn
Be able to design and analyze the feedback systems of switching regulators
Skills you'll gain
Category: Control Systems
Category: Power Electronics
Category: Mathematical Modeling
Category: Systems Analysis
Category: Electrical Engineering
Category: Differential Equations
Category: Graphical Tools
Category: Electronics
Category: Applied Mathematics
Category: Systems Design
What you'll learn
Understand the fundamentals of magnetic components, including inductors and transformers
Analyze and model losses in magnetic components, and understand design trade-offs
Design and optimize inductors and transformers for switched-mode power converters
Skills you'll gain
Category: Power Electronics
Category: Engineering Design Process
Category: Electrical Power
Category: Technical Design
Category: Engineering Analysis
Category: Applied Mathematics
Category: Design Specifications
Category: Mathematical Modeling
Category: Electrical Engineering
Category: Electronic Systems
Category: Electronic Components
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This Specialization is part of the following degree program(s) offered by University of Colorado Boulder. If you are admitted and enroll, your completed coursework may count toward your degree learning and your progress can transfer with you.¹
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Frequently asked questions
The specialization is designed to be taken over 24 weeks. Each course is 3-5 weeks in length.
The first course of the specialization, Introduction to Power Electronics, will begin every four weeks.
Knowledge of circuits and electrical engineering fundamentals at the level of an undergraduate EE major is assumed.
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