Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Power Electronics Modeling and Control from the University of Colorado Boulder

Enhance your career in oscillator electronics. Master design-focused techniques for engineering high-power power converters with feedback control.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת במודולינג ובקרת אלקטרוניקה של כוח של אוניברסיטת קולורדו בולדר

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

  • Models and images
  • Power supply
  • Photovoltaic (PV) systems
  • Power electronics
  • Circuit design

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Power System Engineer
  • Control Engineer
  • Electrical Engineer
  • Photovoltaic engineer
  • Simulation Engineer
  • Power Converter Design Engineer
  • Renewable Energy Engineer
  • Electrical Systems Design Engineer
  • Product Development Engineer in the Power Sector
  • Energy Technology Engineer

Internship – Series of 5 courses

This internship is designed for students and engineers who are interested in upgrading their skills in the analysis, modeling, and design of high-performance control loops around alternating-mode dc-dc, ac-dc, and dc-ac power converters.

Within the five courses, you will learn:

  • Techniques for modeling and simulating average dimensions
  • Design-Focused Analysis Techniques
  • Input filter design
  • Peak and average current control techniques
  • Modeling and control of single-phase power factor correction rectifiers
  • Voltage converters for photovoltaic power systems

Hands-on Learning Project

Learners will finish with simulation examples provided in Spice to design and verify their own high-performance closed-loop dc-dc power converters, ac-dc power factor correction converters, and dc-ac photovoltaic power converters.

The final course in the specialization includes a peer-reviewed project in which students:

  • Design and perform tests of control loops in a complete 5 kW photovoltaic power system
  • Includes voltage converters with maximum power point tracking
  • and a single-phase voltage converter connected to the grid

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Mean-moving models and simulations

  • Course 1 • 16 hours • 4.7 (79 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn
  • Explain the working and models of alternating-mode voltage converters.
  • Place transfer functions in the opening and execution of impulses
  • Design closed-loop controlled switching converters
  • Verify the operation of switching converters with simulations
Skills you will develop
  • Category: Models and Simulations
  • Category: Power supplies
  • Category: Power Electronics Design
  • Category: Power Electronics
  • Category: Circuit Design

Course 2

  • 12 hours • 4.7 (30 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn
  • Understand the statement and inference of the additional element theorem
  • Apply the additional element theorem to converter analysis and design problems
  • Understand the statement of the N-element extra theorem
  • Apply the additional N-element theorem to converter analysis and design problems
  • Designing input filters

Course 3

  • 11 hours • 4.8 (34 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn
  • Understand electromagnetic interference (EMI) and the need for an input filter
  • Understand filter design principles based on rejection requirements and impedance interactions
  • Design input filters with proper single-path and multi-path suppression
  • Use computer tools and simulations to validate the inlet filter design

Course 4

  • 13 hours • 4.9 (19 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn
  • Understand the operating principles and advantages of current mode control in dc-dc converters
  • Place and design dc-dc converters with maximum current mode control
  • Locate and design dc-dc converters with average current mode control
  • Use computer tools and simulations to validate current-mode controlled dc-dc converters
Skills you will develop
  • Category: Models and Simulations
  • Category: Power supplies
  • Category: Power Electronics Design
  • Category: Power Electronics
  • Category: Circuit Design

Course 5

  • 13 hours • 4.6 (32 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn
  • Understand the operating principles of low-distortion, high-power factor rectifiers
  • Place and design current shaping and voltage control circuits in PFC rectifiers
  • Place and design control circuits in single-stage dc-to-ac converters
  • Design photovoltaic power systems connected to the single-phase AC power grid

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