Aims

The aims of the course are to:

• To introduce the techniques of conceptual design process.
• To introduce and develop methods for optimising designs through iteration of design equations.
• To gain an appreciation of the factors influencing power component designs.
• To have hands-on experience on developing and testing power electronic apparatus by prototyping AC/DC and DC/DC converters

Objectives

As specific objectives, by the end of the course students should be able to:

• Understanding the requirement specification and having an appreciation of technical challeges
• Identifying specific tasks for each group member and managing teamwork porgress
• Having practice on making power electronic circuits, including modelling, device selection, gate drive circuitry, coding and digital controller implementation, passive components design and making.
• Having practice on testing power electronic circuits, including instrumentation, sense for measurement

Content

This project will involve students in a wide variety of design issues within electrical engineering. Included are circuit design using integrated circuits, power semiconductor device circuits and the design of a transformer suitable for use with non-sinusoidal supplies.

A tight specification will be given for a prototype 24V dc to 230V ac (50Hz), 150W inverter for use as an emergency power supply in the event of mains failure. Simple calculations for the designs of each stage will be iterated such that a satisfactory solution is obtained. A complete inverter will be made by each group and thoroughly tested to establish whether it meets the specification.

Student will have excises in circuit modelling (LTSpice, PLECS) and PCB design (KiCAD). 

This project will offer students experience and skills for power electronics hardware development. Real power electronic devices and their applications and features will be introduced. 

Aims:

Technical interpretation and design specification

Applications notes and datasheet

Week 1

Conceptual design (Group report 1).

Week 2

Design and build converter circuits for dc to dc and ac to dc conversion

Week 3

Test converter circuits and integrate (Group report 2).

Week 4

Final assembly and test (Individual final report).

MINI LECTURES

Three or four mini lectures will be presented covering:

• Introduction to circuit topologies
• Transformer design.
• Introduction to power semiconductor devices.
• Introduction to power semiconductor device gate drive circuitry 

Circuits and methods

A detailed handbook and a collection of datasheets is given to each student. One practical design is outlined but there is no bar to using other designs if they are sensible. The datasheets are distributed simply to help with the conceptual design stage and no limit is placed on the availability of components. Following the conceptual design report, students may be encouraged or otherwise from following a particular path. Hence it may be expected that each group will produce a working inverter. Use of computers is encouraged, particularly for optimisation of the transformer design. Good quality general purpose electrical and electronic engineering facilities are available.

Aims

The aims of the course are to:

• To introduce the techniques of conceptual design process.
• To introduce and develop methods for optimising designs through iteration of design equations.
• To gain an appreciation of the factors influencing power component designs.
• To have hands-on experience on developing and testing power electronic apparatus by prototyping AC/DC and DC/DC converters

Objectives

As specific objectives, by the end of the course students should be able to:

• Understanding the requirement specification and having an appreciation of technical challeges
• Identifying specific tasks for each group member and managing teamwork porgress
• Having practice on making power electronic circuits, including modelling, device selection, gate drive circuitry, coding and digital controller implementation, passive components design and making.
• Having practice on testing power electronic circuits, including instrumentation, sense for measurement

Content

This project will involve students in a wide variety of design issues within electrical engineering. Included are circuit design using integrated circuits, power semiconductor device circuits and the design of a transformer suitable for use with non-sinusoidal supplies.

A tight specification will be given for a prototype 24V dc to 230V ac (50Hz), 150W inverter for use as an emergency power supply in the event of mains failure. Simple calculations for the designs of each stage will be iterated such that a satisfactory solution is obtained. A complete inverter will be made by each group and thoroughly tested to establish whether it meets the specification.

Student will have excises in circuit modelling (LTSpice, PLECS) and PCB design (KiCAD). 

This project will offer students experience and skills for power electronics hardware development. Real power electronic devices and their applications and features will be introduced. 

Aims:

Technical interpretation and design specification

Applications notes and datasheet

Week 1

Conceptual design (Group report 1).

Week 2

Design and build converter circuits for dc to dc and ac to dc conversion

Week 3

Test converter circuits and integrate (Group report 2).

Week 4

Final assembly and test (Individual final report).

MINI LECTURES

Three or four mini lectures will be presented covering:

• Introduction to circuit topologies
• Transformer design.
• Introduction to power semiconductor devices.
• Introduction to power semiconductor device gate drive circuitry 

Circuits and methods

A detailed handbook and a collection of datasheets is given to each student. One practical design is outlined but there is no bar to using other designs if they are sensible. The datasheets are distributed simply to help with the conceptual design stage and no limit is placed on the availability of components. Following the conceptual design report, students may be encouraged or otherwise from following a particular path. Hence it may be expected that each group will produce a working inverter. Use of computers is encouraged, particularly for optimisation of the transformer design. Good quality general purpose electrical and electronic engineering facilities are available.

Aims

The aims of the course are to:

• To introduce the techniques of conceptual design process.
• To introduce and develop methods for optimising designs through iteration of design equations.
• To gain an appreciation of the factors influencing power component designs.
• To have hands-on experience on developing and testing power electronic apparatus by prototyping AC/DC and DC/DC converters

Objectives

As specific objectives, by the end of the course students should be able to:

• Understanding the requirement specification and having an appreciation of technical challeges
• Identifying specific tasks for each group member and managing teamwork porgress
• Having practice on making power electronic circuits, including modelling, device selection, gate drive circuitry, coding and digital controller implementation, passive components design and making.
• Having practice on testing power electronic circuits, including instrumentation, sense for measurement

Content

This project will involve students in a wide variety of design issues within electrical engineering. Included are circuit design using integrated circuits, power semiconductor device circuits and the design of a transformer suitable for use with non-sinusoidal supplies.

A tight specification will be given for a prototype 24V dc to 230V ac (50Hz), 150W inverter for use as an emergency power supply in the event of mains failure. Simple calculations for the designs of each stage will be iterated such that a satisfactory solution is obtained. A complete inverter will be made by each group and thoroughly tested to establish whether it meets the specification.

Students will work in groups of four, comprising two pairs. Each group will write two interim reports and each student will write a final report containing test results and conclusions.

Week 1

Conceptual design (Group report 1).

Week 2

Design and build converter circuits for dc to dc and ac to dc conversion

Week 3

Test converter circuits and integrate (Group report 2).

Week 4

Final assembly and test (Individual final report).

MINI LECTURES

Three or four mini lectures will be presented covering:

• Introduction to circuit topologies
• Transformer design.
• Introduction to power semiconductor devices.
• Introduction to power semiconductor device gate drive circuitry 

Circuits and methods

A detailed handbook and a collection of datasheets is given to each student. One practical design is outlined but there is no bar to using other designs if they are sensible. The datasheets are distributed simply to help with the conceptual design stage and no limit is placed on the availability of components. Following the conceptual design report, students may be encouraged or otherwise from following a particular path. Hence it may be expected that each group will produce a working inverter. Use of computers is encouraged, particularly for optimisation of the transformer design. Good quality general purpose electrical and electronic engineering facilities are available.

Aims

The aims of the course are to:

• To introduce the techniques of conceptual design process.
• To introduce and develop methods for optimising designs through iteration of design equations.
• To gain an appreciation of the factors influencing power component designs.
• To have hands-on experience on developing and testing power electronic apparatus by prototyping AC/DC and DC/DC converters

Objectives

As specific objectives, by the end of the course students should be able to:

• Understanding the requirement specification and having an appreciation of technical challeges
• Identifying specific tasks for each group member and managing teamwork porgress
• Having practice on making power electronic circuits, including modelling, device selection, gate drive circuitry, coding and digital controller implementation, passive components design and making.
• Having practice on testing power electronic circuits, including instrumentation, sense for measurement

Content

This project will involve students in a wide variety of design issues within electrical engineering. Included are circuit design using integrated circuits, power semiconductor device circuits and the design of a transformer suitable for use with non-sinusoidal supplies.

A tight specification will be given for a prototype 24V dc to 230V ac (50Hz), 150W inverter for use as an emergency power supply in the event of mains failure. Simple calculations for the designs of each stage will be iterated such that a satisfactory solution is obtained. A complete inverter will be made by each group and thoroughly tested to establish whether it meets the specification.

Students will work in groups of four, comprising two pairs. Each student will write two interim reports and a shorter final report containing test results and conclusions.

Week 1

Conceptual design (Report 1).

Week 2

Design and build converter circuits for dc to dc and ac to dc conversion

Week 3

Test converter circuits and integrate (Report 2).

Week 4

Final assembly and test (Report 3).

MINI LECTURES

Three or four mini lectures will be presented covering:

• Introduction to circuit topologies
• Transformer design.
• Introduction to power semiconductor devices.
• Introduction to power semiconductor device gate drive circuitry 

Circuits and methods

A detailed handbook and a collection of datasheets is given to each student. One practical design is outlined but there is no bar to using other designs if they are sensible. The datasheets are distributed simply to help with the conceptual design stage and no limit is placed on the availability of components. Following the conceptual design report, students may be encouraged or otherwise from following a particular path. Hence it may be expected that each group will produce a working inverter. Use of computers is encouraged, particularly for optimisation of the transformer design. Good quality general purpose electrical and electronic engineering facilities are available.

Aims

The aims of the course are to:

• To provide practical experience of electronic circuit design and construction
• To provide experience of using optoelectronic devices and their applications.
• To a build communications system including testing and characterisation

Content

The aim of the project is to design and build a complete communications link based on a plastic optical fibre and resonant cavity light emitting diode that is capable of delivering up to 10 Mbit/s data rates.  The challenge is to build a working  transmitter, receiver and full testing scenario using a limited set of components within the EITL. Each element of the link has to be fully tested and characterised before putting them together as an overall system capable of transmitting digital data from a compact disk player.  Students work in groups of three to design, construct and test an optical communications system. Each student within a group will be expected to manage the different sections of the design and construction individually and then combine them as a group into an overall communications system. All reports are submitted individually and will contain both individual and group elements as the project design ideas develop.

Week 1

System outline and basic transmitter, receiver and testing scenario. First interim report.

Week 2

Reciver, transmitter and tesct scenario construction.  Characterisation and fault finding. Second interim report.

Week 3

System test integration and general testing. Optional extension design/construction.

Week 4

Final testing and CD demonstration of overall systems along with extensions. Final report.

MINI-LECTURES

Mini-lectures on optical communication system design and circuit design for the basic building blocks will be integrated into the first week of the project.