EEE 148. Power Electronics Laboratory. Solid state applications in power control. Diodes, rectifiers (single state and three phase), thrustors. Principle of phase controlled rectification, single phase and three phase converters. Power factor improvement. Three phase Pulse Width Modulation (PWM). AC voltage controllers. SPICE modeling. Strong design emphasis. EMTP modeling. LabView graphics simulation. Microprocessor control of power electronics systems. UPS systems, power supplies, power quality monitoring.

Corequisite: EEE 146 or EEE 147.

1 unit.