Course Overview
PDU (PEB) – Pending approval
Effective from AY2025/26 Trimester 2 (January 2026), the Postgraduate Certificate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering will be transiting to Graduate Certificate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. For more details, please refer to the full notice here.
This module provides participants with in-depth knowledge, skills, and competency in the modelling, simulation, and design of power electronic conversion systems.
These skills and knowledge are essential for the effective, safe, and stable operation and usage of modern power conversion equipment with the growing penetration of renewables, distributed energy resources, and power conversion devices. Theory and practise using computer-aided engineering software such as PLECs will be taught. Simulation, design, and analysis techniques of power converters used in modern power supplies, power drives, and power compensation are emphasised.
Who Should Attend
- Engineers working in the power and energy sector
- Railway electrical power supply and propulsion professionals
- Electrical and electronic engineering professionals
- Researchers and educators in electrical engineering and urban sustainability-related areas
Prerequisites
- Bachelor degree in Engineering
- At least one-year of relevant working experience
What You Will Learn
Power semiconductor devices
- Introduction to design and analysis of power electronic systems
- High power density and efficiency design, modular design
- Power semiconductor devices
- Bipolar and unipolar silicon power device characteristics
- Diodes, thyristors, power MOSFETs, IGBTs, Wide-band-gap power devices
Power electronic passive and magnetic devices
- Magnetics in power electronics
- Losses in magnetic cores
- Design of inductors and transformers based on area product method, skin effects and interleaved windings
- Passive components, capacitors, thermal management, heat sinks, drivers and controllers, power device protection, snubbers and Safe operating areas
Conversion to DC power
- AC to DC rectification, single-phase and 3-phase uncontrolled and controlled rectifiers, high pulse number rectifiers, total harmonic distortion and ripple factor
- DC to DC Conversion, switching pole, buck, boost and buck-boost topologies, continuous and discontinuous conduction
- Synchronous rectification, two and four quadrant DC choppers
Conversion to AC power
- DC to AC inversion, pulse-width modulation, space vector modulation
- Single-phase and 3-phase inverters, voltage-source and current-source inverters
- AC to AC converters without DC-Link, matrix converters, practical implementation issues in such converters
Power converters for energy supply
- Applications in flexible AC transmission and HVDC transmission, power converters for solar PV and wind turbines
- Multi-level converters for high voltage applications, 3-level inverters, diode-clamped and neutral-point-clamped, cascaded H-bridge
Power converters for energy demand
- Bidirectional power flow converters, PWM inverter-rectifiers, H-bridges, power factor correction/active harmonic filters,
- Special circuits: Z-source inverters
- Soft switching and resonant converters to reduce losses, zero-voltage switching, zero-current switching, synchronous rectification
Teaching Team
Eng Kian Sng
Associate Professor, Engineering, Singapore Institute of Technology
Schedule
Course Run | Dates | Time |
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August - December 2023 Run | 31 August - 3 December 2023 (Every Thursday*) | 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
*Subject to change
Certificate and Assessment
A Certificate of Participation will be issued to participants who:
- Attend at least 75% of the module; and
- Undertake non-credit bearing assessment during the course
A Certificate of Attainment for each module will be issued to participants who:
- Attend at least 75% of the module; and
- Undertake and pass credit bearing assessment during the course
Fee Structure
The full fee for this course is S$3,606.88
Category | After SF Funding |
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Singapore Citizen (Below 40) | S$1,082.06 |
Singapore Citizen (40 & Above) | S$420.25 |
Singapore PR / LTVP+ Holder | S$1,082.06 |
Non-Singapore Citizen | S$3,606.88 (No Funding) |
Note: All fees above include GST. GST applies to individuals and Singapore-registered companies.
Course Runs
Learning Pathway
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