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Power Electronics
Engineering & Social Sciences Program
Madrid, Spain
Dates: mid Jan 2026 - early Jun 2026
Power Electronics
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Electrical Engineering
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 14033
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
Prerequisites: -Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering
-Fundamentals of Electronic Engineering
DESCRIPTION
1. Introduction to Power Electronics.
1.1. Fundamentals of Power Electronics.
1.2. Typical applications of Power Electronics.
2. Electric Concepts
2.1. Average Value (avg) and Root Mean Square Value (rms) of a sinusoidal signal.
2.2. Average Value (avg) and Root Mean Square Value (rms) of a non-sinusoidal signal
2.3. Fourier Series of periodic waveforms.
2.4. Instant power, active power, reactive power and aparent power.
2.5. Quality factors of the electric energy conversion: Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), Ripple Factor, Power Factor.
3. Electric components and power electronic devices.
3.1. Passive components: resistor, inductor, capacitor and transformer.
3.2. Power Semiconductors: Diode, MOSFET, IGBT. Static characteristics and conduction power losses models.
4. DC-DC Converters.
4.1 Introduction to power supplies.
4.2 Basic DC-Dc converters without galvanic Isolation.
4.2.1 Buck converter.
4.2.2 Boost converter.
4.2.3 Buck-Boost converter.
4.3 DC-DC converters with galvanic Isolation.
4.3.1 Flyback converter.
4.3.2 Full-Bridge converter.
4.3.3 Dual-Active-Bridge converter
5. DC-AC Inverters.
5.1 Introduction to DC-AC inverters.
5.2 Topologies
5.2.1 Half-Bridge.
5.2.2 Full-Bridge.
5.2.3 Three-phase Bridge.
5.3 Sinusoidal PWM Modulation.
5.3.1 Basic concepts of modulation
5.3.1 Single phase bipolar PWM modulation
5.3.2 Single phase unipolar PWM modulation
5.3.3 Three-phase bipolar PWM modulation
5.4 Load types
5.4.1 L filter and resistive load
5.4.2 LC filter and resistive load
5.4.3 Grid-tied inverter with L filter.
6. CA-CC Rectifiers and PFC
6.1 Introduction to rectifiers. Current harmonics.
6.2 Line commutated rectifiers: C and LC filters.
6.3 Single-phase Boost PFC with Boundary Conduction Mode (BCM) operation.
6.4 Three-phase Boost PFC.
7. Thermal Management of power converters
7.1 Power losses and efficiency calculations.
7.2 Heat-sink design.
1.1. Fundamentals of Power Electronics.
1.2. Typical applications of Power Electronics.
2. Electric Concepts
2.1. Average Value (avg) and Root Mean Square Value (rms) of a sinusoidal signal.
2.2. Average Value (avg) and Root Mean Square Value (rms) of a non-sinusoidal signal
2.3. Fourier Series of periodic waveforms.
2.4. Instant power, active power, reactive power and aparent power.
2.5. Quality factors of the electric energy conversion: Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), Ripple Factor, Power Factor.
3. Electric components and power electronic devices.
3.1. Passive components: resistor, inductor, capacitor and transformer.
3.2. Power Semiconductors: Diode, MOSFET, IGBT. Static characteristics and conduction power losses models.
4. DC-DC Converters.
4.1 Introduction to power supplies.
4.2 Basic DC-Dc converters without galvanic Isolation.
4.2.1 Buck converter.
4.2.2 Boost converter.
4.2.3 Buck-Boost converter.
4.3 DC-DC converters with galvanic Isolation.
4.3.1 Flyback converter.
4.3.2 Full-Bridge converter.
4.3.3 Dual-Active-Bridge converter
5. DC-AC Inverters.
5.1 Introduction to DC-AC inverters.
5.2 Topologies
5.2.1 Half-Bridge.
5.2.2 Full-Bridge.
5.2.3 Three-phase Bridge.
5.3 Sinusoidal PWM Modulation.
5.3.1 Basic concepts of modulation
5.3.1 Single phase bipolar PWM modulation
5.3.2 Single phase unipolar PWM modulation
5.3.3 Three-phase bipolar PWM modulation
5.4 Load types
5.4.1 L filter and resistive load
5.4.2 LC filter and resistive load
5.4.3 Grid-tied inverter with L filter.
6. CA-CC Rectifiers and PFC
6.1 Introduction to rectifiers. Current harmonics.
6.2 Line commutated rectifiers: C and LC filters.
6.3 Single-phase Boost PFC with Boundary Conduction Mode (BCM) operation.
6.4 Three-phase Boost PFC.
7. Thermal Management of power converters
7.1 Power losses and efficiency calculations.
7.2 Heat-sink design.