Course syllabus for Applied design of power electronics on printed circuit boards

Course syllabus adopted 2023-02-06 by Head of Programme (or corresponding).

Overview

  • Swedish nameTillämpad design av kraftelektronik på mönsterkort
  • CodeEEN195
  • Credits7.5 Credits
  • OwnerMPEPO
  • Education cycleSecond-cycle
  • Main field of studyElectrical Engineering
  • DepartmentELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
  • GradingUG - Pass, Fail

Course round 1

  • Teaching language English
  • Application code 21122
  • Maximum participants24 (at least 10% of the seats are reserved for exchange students)
  • Minimum participants12
  • Block schedule
  • Open for exchange studentsYes

Credit distribution

0123 Design exercise + laboratory 4 c
Grading: UG		0 c4 c0 c0 c0 c0 c
0223 Oral examination 3.5 c
Grading: UG		0 c3.5 c0 c0 c0 c0 c

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Examiner

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Eligibility

General entry requirements for Master's level (second cycle)
Applicants enrolled in a programme at Chalmers where the course is included in the study programme are exempted from fulfilling the requirements above.

Specific entry requirements

English 6 (or by other approved means with the equivalent proficiency level)
Applicants enrolled in a programme at Chalmers where the course is included in the study programme are exempted from fulfilling the requirements above.

Course specific prerequisites

Course specific prerequisites for MPEPO in the Admission Regulations and
ENM071 - Applied power electronics: Devices and implementations
or
DAT096 - Embedded system design project

and
ENM061 - Power electronic converters
or equivalent

Aim

The purpose with the course is to develop competence for the complete design process for a system of power electronics, a board power system, with advanced and complex loads in a limited product. The design process starts from the requirements/product knowledge and ends with a final assembled product, a physical product with a design that is based on the life cycle requirements of the product. This includes protective circuits/components, EMI filter, how primary and secondary converters form a board power system in a DC supplied system, how different optimizations influence the performance of the final product while still fulfilling the requirements, how different blocks works together as a highly efficient board power system and how different stage and design constraints forms the final product.

Learning outcomes (after completion of the course the student should be able to)

  1. Create and evaluate different steps in a design process from idea to a finished product
  2. Design a product, with focus on the power electronic parts, from a base of requirements and system knowledge, with respect to the system context and environmental conditions the board is intended to operate in.
  3. Separate a complex system into fractions to simplify simulations in a practical engineering way
  4. Analyse and dimension parts of a design to comply with system boundaries
  5. Interpret and draw electronic schematics, including fundamental understanding and usage of electronic symbols and their connection to the physical layout of the board
  6. Construct a board layout based on an electronic schematic
  7. Adapt the product design to environmental condition requirements as well as applicable standards and regulations
  8. Analyse and compare different types of fault and transient protections.
  9. Analyse and evaluate a design from an EMI perspective, i.e. how radiated and conducted disturbances propagate and interact with different parts on the PCB and its surrounding.
  10. Apply producibility and testability in the design
  11. Discuss how thermal considerations impact different design choices as size/volume, humidity, indoor, outdoor, cooling, price etc.
  12. Reflect over the value creation made for others
  13. Plane the project, write a report to document the project and share the experiences with the other students in the course.
  14. Show an ability to within the project make judgements considering sustainable developments and ethical aspects through:
    • Reflection and critical judgement of relevant dimensions of sustainable development
    • Handle scientific writing in an ethically defendable way, for instance related to plagiarism and authorship.
    • Utilise ethical principles for data acquisition, analysis and result presentation.

Content

The students will perform the complete design process of a power electronic converter, from idea to verification measurements on the assemble design. The design process includes block design with different purpose and to perform thermal calculations, practical EMI (electromagnetic interference) design and transient protection design. The electric design will be a part of the course as a project task but the complete design flow will be discussed and analyzed. Process includes how to split requirement into relevant parts to be able to do correct complete design, simulation, electronic design, layout design, producibility and testability. Also important aspects as practical fundamental understanding of how technical lifetime and MTBF have influence of design. 

Organisation

The course is designed around the practical design project where the student groups will go through the entire design process of a power electronic converter, from idea to verification measurements on the assemble design. The design process is supported by lectures for each step and each step should be documented in a written report that is submitted for assessment after each step in the process. The project is evaluated continuously both technically and according to time plan. In the end of the course the student groups should present the experiences with the other students in the course.

Literature

Not decided yet

Examination including compulsory elements

For the practical design project the students need to be presence and contribute to the project work and to each submission of the report. When all submissions are approved, and the experiences are shared with the other groups the project work is approved, with grade Pass.

The oral examination is based on the design project, lectures and discussions during the course. The grading of the is Pass or Fail.

The final grade on the course is Pass or Fail. When both the practical design project and the oral examination are graded pass the final grade pass is given for the course.

The course examiner may assess individual students in other ways than what is stated above if there are special reasons for doing so, for example if a student has a decision from Chalmers on educational support due to disability.