ENEX13002 - Power Electronics

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this unit, you will build on your electronics knowledge previously acquired. You will learn more about power semiconductor devices and their modeling, such as diodes, silicon-controlled rectifiers (SCRs), metal oxide silicon field effect transistors (MOSFETs), and isolated gate bipolar junction transistors (IGBTs), including their theory of operation and limitations. You will also learn to calculate thermal dissipation requirements of power semiconductors and to choose suitable heat sinks. You will be introduced to the concepts of alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC), AC to AC, DC to DC, and DC to AC converters. You will analyse circuits and it's waveforms using Fourier analysis. You will also review different types of motors and learn about their drives and control, including DC motor drives and AC motor drives. You will learn to design/develop power electronics solutions and test them by simulation and prototyping in the lab. In this unit, you must complete compulsory practical activities. Refer to the Engineering Undergraduate Course Moodle site for proposed dates.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisites: (ENEX12002 Introductory Electronics OR ENEE13018 Analogue Electronics) AND (ENEX12001 Electrical Power and Machines OR ENEE12015 Electrical Power Engineering)
ENEE12015 Electrical Power Engineering may be studied as a co-requisite.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2025

Term 2 - 2025 Profile
Mackay
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Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

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This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 80.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 27.78% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Student unit evaluation, email and class.
Feedback
The 'Useful Learning Materials' feedback item scored lower in the unit evaluation. Students have further expressed that the unit workload is high due to excess learning material for this unit.
Recommendation
Review learning material to eliminate peripheral or excess work.
Action Taken
Learning material and assessments were better aligned. Zoom support meetings also focused more on guiding students to important content, specifically for assessments.
Source: Email and class.
Feedback
Self-paced learning is facilitated, seeing much of the unit material is online and available from the start of the semester.
Recommendation
Keep this approach, especially for distance students' sake.
Action Taken
Same approach was kept.
Source: Email, class and unit evaluation
Feedback
Students enjoyed the practical approach to the unit and felt that they learned a lot from the assessment tasks.
Recommendation
Keep developing the practical design approach as well as assessment tasks.
Action Taken
Same approach was kept.
Source: In class, email.
Feedback
Weekly Zoom support meetings were very useful, and helpful that they were recorded.
Recommendation
Keep the weekly Zoom support meetings. Invite questions via email and a Q&A forum for non-attending students.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Email.
Feedback
Self-paced learning is facilitated by all the unit material being online and available.
Recommendation
Keep this approach and improve further.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: In class.
Feedback
Students enjoyed the new LabVolt practicums, and found it helpful.
Recommendation
Keep this approach and improve further.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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