Transportation Electrification: Introduction to Power Electronics in Electric Drive Trains
The second module in this series on electric drive trains introduces the student to the power electronics. Emphasis is placed on the topologies of rectifiers, DC-DC converters and inverters used in electric drive trains. Input-output relationships are provided for most of the circuit topologies.
What you will learn:
- Describe the uses of power electronic circuit
- Describe the fundamental types of power electronic circuit
- Describe the topologies of rectifiers and DC-DC converters
- Explain how inverters work
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Who should attend: Electrical engineer, Network engineer, Data engineer, Design engineer, Hardware engineer, Security engineer, Lead engineer, Project engineer, Product engineer, Software engineer, System, Manufacturing engineer
Instructor
James Gover
Dr. James Gover, IEEE Life Fellow, is currently Professor Emeritus at Kettering University and teaches graduate courses on power semiconductors, advanced power electronics and fuel cell system integration and packaging. Dr. Gover was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kettering for fourteen years and served as Department Chair for three years. His research and teaching specialty at Kettering University was hybrid electric vehicles and the associated technologies. He was awarded the title of IEEE Fellow for his work in radiation effects.
Publication Year: 2013
ISBN: 1-4673-3222-4