Electrical Engineering with Power Electronics

MSc Full-time

Suitable for International Students?

Yes

Course Introduction

Huge advances in wireless, internet and information technologies have resulted in massive growth in the diversity of electrical engineering applications, ranging from kitchen appliances to intelligent mobile robots, garden lighting solar cells to renewable energy wind farms.

This hands-on highly-innovative course, which is constantly updated, examines state-of-the-art tools and techniques in hardware, software, digital signal processing, power electronics and control, including industrial applications in the emerging power and energy industry – providing an in-depth insight into these areas.

Students take an interactive approach to learning skills highly relevant to the needs of the electronics industry. Those taking part in the programme encourage and support each other to push their knowledge to the frontiers of these expanding technologies.

Examples of projects:

• Design and construction of an autonomous postman
• Investigation of very fast switching of high-power IHGBTs
• Application of neural networks to motor drives

Course Syllabus

2011/12: All Modules are Core

Semester 1 (50 Credits - 5 Modules):

• Control System Design (20 Credits split over both Semesters, 10 Credits per Semester)
• Digital Signal Processing (10 Credits)
• Mobile Robotics and Wireless Sensors (20 Credits split over both Semesters, 10 Credits per Semester)
• Power Devices and Applications (10 Credits)
• Signals and Systems Theory (10 Credits)

Semester 2 (50 Credits - 5 Modules):

• Control System Design (20 Credits split over both Semesters, 10 Credits per Semester)
• Mobile Robotics and Wireless Sensors (20 Credits split over both Semesters, 10 Credits per Semester)
• Power Converters and Applications (10 Credits)
• Research Seminar Series (10 Credits)
• Sustainable Energy (10 Credits)
• Terminal Technologies (10 Credits) (to replace Sustainable Energy if substitution is required)

Semesters 1 and 2, and End of Semester 2 onwards (80 Credits - 1 Module):

• MSc Project (80 Credits)

The modules below are substitution modules. These are only available to students graduating from Bradford BEng courses who may have already studied one or more of the modules shown above:

Semester 1

• Advanced Embedded Systems Design † (10 Credits)
• Advanced Numerical Methods (10 Credits)
• Computer Applications of Numerical Methods (10 Credits)
• Design Optimisation (10 Credits)

Semester 2

• Advanced Embedded Systems Applications † (10 Credits)

† Modules marked with an † are Level-3 modules. No more than two Level-3 modules can be chosen for the entire MSc course