This course is prepared for senior undergraduate students to educate students in the design and applications of solar energy engineering. It will focus on fundamentals of solar energy conversion and photovoltaic, and its system.
Course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
Gain an understanding of the available solar energy and the current solar energy conversion and utilization processes.
Have a working knowledge of semiconductor physics, photoelectric effect, photovoltaic(PV) cell operation and characterization, and related to photovoltaic engineering.
Experience computer aided design of PV cell with essential skill for presentation of their own design
This course is prepared for senior undergraduate students to introduce students to the new generation of energy-efficient power electronic devices and provide students the insight useful for understanding and analyzing those devices. Silicon power electronic devices are fast approaching their performance limits set by silicon’s fundamental material properties. A new generation of semiconductor materials having a wider energy bandgap has emerged which makes energy-efficient electronic, especially power electronic devices possible. These devices are capable of drastic reduction of switching and conduction losses simultaneously as well as operation under higher temperatures, making power systems considerably smaller, lighter, cheaper and more robust.
Course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
Characteristics, fabrication, and application of power semiconductor devices, which may include p-i-n and Schottky diodes, insulated gate bipolar transistors, field effect transistors, and thyristors.
Effect of semiconductor material, device structure, and current injection levels on device performance.
Device drive requirements and power circuit interaction. Implementation of power devices using wide band gap semiconductors such as silicon carbide and gallium nitride.
This course is prepared for senior undergraduate students to provide a broad overview of optical, infrared, hyperspectral, terahertz, biological, magnetic, chemical, acoustic, and radiation sensors. The course will examine basic sensor operation and the implementation of sensors in measurement systems. Other topics to be covered are physical principles of sensing, interface electronic circuits, and sensor characteristics. In examining the basics principles of sensor operation, we will cover some of the fundamental effects, phenomena, laws and rules of physics which are used by sensors to measure and quantify.
Course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
Familiarizing with sensor classifications
Learning about sensor characteristics
Understanding sensor deviations and error conditions
Learning about the physical phenomena used in sensing