ECE469 Power Electronics Laboratory
Fall 2007

The ECE 469 lab was made possible by a donation from the Grainger Foundation, in honor of William W. Grainger (B.S.'19) who founded the W.W. Grainger company in Skokie Illinois.

 

Instructor:

P.T. Krein  (krein@ece.uiuc.edu)

Teaching Assistants:

Yingying Kuai    Office: 329B EL Tel: 244-1881
                         Office Hours: Thursday 12-3pm, room 50 Everitt

 

Grant Pitel  (gpitel@uiuc.edu)   Office: 336 EL Tel: 244-0554
                         Office Hours: Thursday 12-3pm, room 50 Everitt

 


 

Required Text:  “ECE 469 – Power Electronics Laboratory, Laboratory Information Guide,” Version 2.3, Krein 2007. To be provided free of charge

Recommended Text: “Elements of Power Electronics,” Krein, Oxford University Press 

Prerequisites: Credit or current registration in ECE 464 and ECE 443 or consent of instructor.

Purpose: To experience practical implementations of power electronics, to learn more about the applications of power electronics, and to improve engineering documentation and reporting skills.

Course Syllabus

Course Objectives


Meeting Times:

Section

Day / Time

Location

Lecture

Monday 12:00PM - 12:50PM

50 Everitt Lab

Lab

Tuesday  10:00AM - 12:50PM

50 Everitt Lab

Lab

Wednesday 12:00 PM - 2:50PM

50 Everitt Lab


Course Outline:

 

Part One

Ac-Dc Converter circuits

 

     Experiment 1: Basic Rectifier Circuits

     Experiment 2:  Single-Phase Conversion

     Experiment 3:  Poly-Phase Conversion

Part Two

Dc-Dc Converter circuits

 

     Experiment 4: One-Quadrant Converters

     Experiment 5: Converters for Motor Drives

Part Three

Dc-Ac Converter circuits

 

     Experiment 6: Voltage-Sourced Inverters

     Experiment 7:  Pulse Width Modulation Inverters

Part Four

Passive Components

 

     Experiment 8: Models for Real Capacitors and Inductors

     Experiment 9: Magnetics

Part Five

Design Project

 

     

     


 

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