Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Electrical Circuits from the University of Colorado Boulder

Expand your engineering excellence. Develop advanced electronics systems for our devices, transportation, and infrastructure.

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Professional Certificate

Intermediate level

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Data analysis ability
  • Understanding programming languages
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Teamwork
  • Effective communication
  • creativity
  • Self-learning
  • Knowledge of technological tools
  • project management
  • Organizational skills

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Power Electronics Engineer
  • Power Systems Engineer
  • Inverter Design Engineer
  • Performance Control Engineer
  • Renewable Energy Technologies Engineer
  • Product Development Engineer in the field of power electronics
  • Automated Systems Engineer
  • Technical engineer in the field of power conversion

Internship – 4-part course series

  • Design of modern switching power converters

  • Creating high-performance control loops around power converters

  • Understanding efficiency, power density, and cost gaps

Future predictions

  • By 2030, 80% of all electrical energy will be processed by power electronics.

Professional advantages

  • Professional benefits continue to grow for technical engineers.
  • Engineers who understand the basic principles and technical requirements of modern power conversion systems.

Internship content

  • This specialization covers design-oriented analysis.
  • Positioning and modeling techniques leading to practical engineering of high-performance power electronics systems.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Introduction to Power Electronics

Course 1

  • 11 hours
  • 4.7 (3,420 ratings)
Course Description
  • What you’ll learn:
    • Understand what a cmd mode converter is and its basic working methods
    • Be able to calculate the steady-state voltages and currents in L of power converters, including buck converters, buck inverters, and others
    • Know how to derive an average parallel circuit model and calculate the efficiency of the converter

Inverter circuits

  • Course 2
  • 18 hours
  • 4.8 (1,356 ratings)
Course Description
  • What you’ll learn:
    • Understand how to implement semiconductor components in a switching converter
    • Understand the origins of free-running mode and be able to troubleshoot converters operating in this mode.
    • Understand the basic circuits of DC-DC converters and DC-AC converters
    • Understand how to implement transformer isolation in a DC-DC converter, including popular topologies such as forward and reverse conductors

Inverter control

  • Course 3
  • 19 hours
  • 4.8 (629 ratings)
Course Description
  • What you’ll learn:
    • Be able to design and analyze the input and output systems of voltage converters

From magnetics to power converters

  • Course 4
  • 17 hours
  • 4.8 (134 ratings)
Course Description
  • What you’ll learn:
    • Understand the basics of magnetic components, including inductors and transformers
    • Analyze and model loss in magnetic components, and understand the design maneuvers
    • Create and optimize inductors and transformers for cmd mode power converters

Skills you will acquire

  • Category: Understand the basics of magnetic components including inductors and transformers
  • Understand the basics of magnetic components including inductors and transformers
  • Category: Design and optimize inductors and transformers for cmd mode power converters
  • Design and optimize inductors and transformers for cmd mode power converters
  • Category: Analyze and model loss in magnetic components
  • Analyze and model loss in magnetic components