ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The faculty of electrical and electronics engineering offers a 2 year masters program in power electronics and drives. This program has an increasing exposure towards growing of industrial needs. This program includes importance of detailed study of power electronic devices and its applications for AC drives and DC drives, power system voltage stability and its control and the trends in the renewable energy systems.

PROGRAMME EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES (PEOS) :

1. To prepare the students for successful career in power electronic industry, research and

    Teaching institutions.

2. To analyze, design and develop the power electronic converter/drive systems.
3. To develop the ability to analyze the dynamics in power electronic converters/drives

    Systems and design various controllers to meet the performance criteria.

4. To design power electronic systems and special electrical machines for efficient extraction

   And utilization of various renewable energy sources.

5. To promote student awareness for the lifelong learning and to introduce them to

   Professional ethics.

PROGRAMME OUTCOMES

PO 1: An ability to independently carry out research/investigation and development work to solve practical problems

PO 2: An ability to write and present a substantial technical report/document.

PO 3: Students should be able to demonstrate a degree of mastery over the area as per the specialization of the program. The mastery should be at a level higher than the requirements in the appropriate bachelor program.

PO 4:Apply knowledge of basic science and engineering in design and testing of power electronic systems and drives.

PO 5: Interact with Industry in a professional and ethical manner to meet the requirements of societal needs and to contribute sustainable development of the society.

PO 6: Implement cost effective and cutting edge technologies in power electronics and drives system.

• POWER CONVERTERS LABORATORY
• ANALOG AND DIGITAL CONTROLLERS FOR PECONVERTERS LABORATORY
• POWER ELECTRONICS AND DRIVES LABORATORY
• DESIGN LABORATORY FOR POWER ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS

From these labs helps to study the characteristics of switching devices and its applications in rectifier, inverter, chopper and resonant converter. This makes the student learn how to apply the electronic devices for conversion, control and conditioning of electronic power. To Design the driving circuits, sensing circuits, protection circuits for power converters and analyze the three-phase controlled rectifiers and isolated DC-DC converters for designing the power supplies.

This lab is provided with Micro Controller based Speed Control of VSI Fed Three-Phase Induction Motor, Micro Controller based Speed Control of Converter/Chopper Fed Dc Motor, 3 phase Autotransformer, Intelligent Power Modules, Isolation Transformer, 8051 Based MC Trainer Kit, PC Keyboard & LCD Display Card, Relay Card, PIC Microcontroller Kit, Stepper Motor Interface Board.

List of Major Equipments:

• Arduino or Micro Controller or PIC microcontroller along with interfacing cable
• Microcontroller Evaluation board (C2000 family/DSPIC/ARM)
• Fully controlled Converter fed DC motor
• Half controlled Converter fed DC motor
• Chopper-fed DC motor
• V/f control of Three-Phase Induction motor
• AC voltage Controller-based speed control of induction motor.
• DSP based speed control of SRM motor
• Three-phase Synchronous Generator set up to conduct voltage regulation
• Micro controller based speed control of Stepper motor.
• Digital storage oscilloscopes
• Simulation software.