ECEN 3113 Energy, Environment and Economics
Prerequisites: ECEN 3714 with a "C" or better.
Description: Topics relevant to understanding the close relationship between energy use, its impact on the environment, and overall economic implications. Green energy technologies (wind, solar, hydro) will be considered along with conventional techniques. Both conventional and non-conventional energy technologies will be discussed.
Credit hours: 3
Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule types: Lecture
Department/School: Elec & Computer Engr
ECEN 4133 Power Electronics
Prerequisites: ECEN 3714 with a grade of "C" or better.
Description: Power electronic devices, components, and their characteristics; DC to AC conversion; fundamentals of inverters and wave shaping devices; application aspects; control aspects; characteristics and state-of-the-art of advanced power inverter and power conditioning topologies.
Credit hours: 3
Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule types: Lecture
Department/School: Elec & Computer Engr
ECEN 5163 Cyber Physical Systems and Smart Grid
Prerequisites: ECEN 5193.
Description: Introduction to smart grid technologies and applications; advance metering infrastructures, demand response, renewable generation, electric vehicles, and cyberattacks.
Credit hours: 3
Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3
Levels: Graduate
Schedule types: Lecture
Department/School: Elec & Computer Engr
ECEN 5133 Power Electronics and Renewables
Description: Modeling and control aspects of power electronics for integrating renewable energy systems. Topics covered here will focus on power converter dynamics, indirect converter topologies, PWM technique, sliding mode control of converters, game theory based control, Maximum power point tracking, control of generators for different renewable energy systems. Simulation tools will be discussed as appropriate.
Credit hours: 3
Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Contact: 3
Levels: Graduate
Schedule types: Lecture
Department/School: Elec & Computer Engr
ECEN 2714 Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
Prerequisites: MATH 2153 with a "C" or better and (PHYS 2114 and MATH 2233 and ENSC 2611 with a "C" or better or concurrent enrollment).
Description: Circuit analysis techniques including equivalent networks and mesh/node formulation of network equations; operational amplifiers; RL, RC and RLC transient and steady-state circuit analysis; energy and power; electrical measurements and instrumentation.
Credit hours: 4
Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Lab: 2 Contact: 5
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule types: Lab, Lecture, Combined lecture and lab
Department/School: Elec & Computer Engr