Teaching

EE 113/213A - Power Electronics (Fall 2023, 2024): Power electronics process electrical energy for many important systems – renewable energy, transportation, manufacturing, computing, consumer electronics, and more. This course is the first in a two-semester series designed to equip students with the skills needed to analyze, design, and prototype power electronic converters. EE 113/213A focuses on power electronics fundamentals and applications, with sequential modules on topics such as ac-dc power conversion, dc-dc power conversion, inverters, semiconductor devices, and passive components. Beyond coursework, students apply such concepts in simulation-based laboratory assignments. By the end of EE 113/213A, students should be capable of analyzing power converter circuit topologies, sizing components, estimating loss, and simulating power converter behavior, establishing a foundation for further study in power electronics and/or adjacent fields. 

EE 113B/213B - Power Electronics Design (Spring 2024, 2025): This course is the second in a two-semester series designed to equip students with the skills needed to analyze, design, and prototype power electronic converters. While EE 113/213A provides an overview of power electronics fundamentals and applications, EE 113B/213B focuses on the practical design and hardware implementation of power converters. As such, the primary focus of EE 113B/213B is time in the laboratory, with sequential modules on soldering, power semiconductor devices, thermal design, magnetics design, gate drive circuits, sensing circuits, PCB layout, microcontroller programming, closed-loop control, experimental validation, and performance characterization. Throughout the semester, students design, prototype, and validate their own maximum-power-point-tracking (MPPT) dc-dc converters for solar photovoltaic modules, and the semester culminates with a “Demo Day” outdoors and design competitions for efficiency, power density, and MPPT performance. By the end of the course, students demonstrate hardware design skillsets that are critical for power electronics engineers in research and industry alike.

EE 137B - Introduction to Electric Power Systems (Spring 2023): Overview of recent and potential future evolution of electric power systems with focus on new and emerging technologies for power conversion and delivery, primarily at the distribution level. Topics include power electronics applications, solar and wind generation, distribution system design and operation, electric energy storage, information management and communications, demand response, and microgrids.