University of California, Irvine

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Industrial and Power Electronics

EECS166A and EECS267A
Winter 2015
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K. Smedley
Roozbeh Naderi
Yiming Ma
EH3432
824-6710
smedley@uci.edu,
Tue and Thursday 2:30-1:50PM, PSCB120
Wednesday 1:00-1:50PM, ET201
Tuesday 2-3PM (in class or at Office EH3432)
Tuesday 6:00-7:50PM, Thursday 6:00-7:50PM, Friday2:003:50PM
Wednesday 2:00-3:00PM
Thursday Feb 12, in class, closed book
Friday, Mar 20, 10:30-12:30 pm, closed book
R. Erickson, Fundamental of Power
Electronics, Kluwer Academic Publishing latest edition.

Course Syllabus
Industrial and Power Electronics is a branch of electronics that studies how to use
semiconductors to efficiently and precisely process power for industrial applications such
as transmitting signals, driving motors, performing process control, etc. as well for
renewable power generation such as converting raw solar and wind power to useful
power. This course introduces high-frequency pulse-width modulation (PWM) power
electronic circuits for power processing. You will learn basic circuit topologies, magnetic
design, and control methods. You will also have the opportunity to design and build a
power electronic circuit as well as to test its steady-state and dynamic properties as a lab
project.
I. Converters In Steady State (Ch1-6)
II. Magnetics (Class notes)
III. Converter Dynamics and Control (Class notes)
Homework assignments (10%), Midterm (30%), Lab (30%), and Final (30%).
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* EECS166A students will get one step advantage in grade over EECS267A students.
** All graduate students will be given a grade according to their overall score (Not necessarily B).

Industrial and Power Electronics Laboratory

ECE166A/267A Lab
Course Instructor: Professor Keyue Smedley
Lab Teaching Assistant: Bin Wu
Time: Tue, Thu 6:00-7:50pm, Fri. 2-3:50PM
Room: EH 1121(experiment) EH 1141(simulation)

Introduction
This is the general introduction to the ECE 166A/267A lab. It contains information regarding the
administration of the lab, the lab report format and the lab schedule. There are seven lab sessions
all together. Lab 1 and Lab 2 are dedicated to the computer simulation of Buck Converter and
Boost Converter. In Lab 3, Lab 4, Lab 5, Lab 6 and Lab 7 you will design and construct your
own Boost Converter. You need to achieve the milestones in each lab session. We suggest 3
students to form a group. Group members should distribute the work and exhibit team work
spirit. Well assign the final grade according to the quality of the work weighted by your
contribution to the project, thus please mark team members contribution in each report, such as
30, 50%, 20%, which add up to 100%.
1. Lab Schedules:
Week 3. Lab 1: PSPICE simulation of Buck Converter
Week 4. Lab 2: PSPICE simulation of Boost Converter
Week 5. Lab 3: Boost Converter Project: Design (schematics, PWM chip, and inductor)
Week 6. Lab 4: Boost Converter project: build up the converter
Week 7. Lab 5: Boost Converter project: open-loop test
Week 8. Lab 6: Boost Converter project: closed-loop test
Week 9. Lab 7: Boost Converter project: continue the test
Location: Lab 1~2 at EH1141 Lab 3~7 at EH1121
2. Lab rules: Safety number one! All panels in the lab are always energized and the available
high voltage utility outlets present a real danger to people and equipment.
Check the connection before switching on the power.
Switch off the power before changing components and connections
Make sure the polarity of the electrolytic capacitors and other components are correct
Use appropriately sized conductors and resistors for the expected currents.
No food and drinks are allowed in the lab at any time
Clean your work space and return all equipment, hook-up wires and tools to their
original locations before leaving the lab
Never leave any power supplies, scopes, meters or soldering irons on unattended
3. Pre-lab Requirement
Pre-labs are required for the first three labs. Each group should submit a pre-lab report at the
beginning of each lab. The pre-lab assignment will consist of the work that needs to be
prepared in order to perform the experiment. Circuit diagrams, equations, simulation block
diagrams and necessary calculations should all be done before the lab sessions and should be
included in the pre- lab report. It will be graded by the lab TA as 30% of each lab report.
4. Lab Report
Lab reports are required for the first, second sessions and a final report is due after
completion of all sessions. Each group should turn in the lab report at the beginning of

the next lab session. All reports should be formal and written as a technical report:
technically correct, complete and concise. While completeness is important, it is not necessary
to fatten up the report with superfluous writing. You should not spend extra time repeating the
lab procedures, describing the equipment and so on. Please also be honest with the experimental
results: get the data from your own simulation or circuit board.
General Lab Report Format:
4.1) TitlePage
The title page should contain the lab session number, title, date, student names and ID numbers.
Both group members should sign the lab report on the title page.
4.2) Introduction
Explain the objective of the experiment, the problems being investigated and the method of the
investigation.
4.3) Body
The body part should contain the calculated and experimental results, graphs, tables, plots,
measured waveforms. All analysis of the data should be done in this part.
4.4) Discussion and conclusion
Discuss the problems encountered and solutions here. You can also include your valuable
thoughts here. Write a short conclusion to summarize the lab reports.
6. Lab Grading:
Lab Total: 100 points
Lab1+Prelab15 points, Lab2+Prelab 15 points, Lab3 pre-lab10 points
Final report 60 points
Absence from each lab session will result in -10 points.
Final Report and Report Grading Criteria:
1. (1 points) Title of project, names and IDs of group members
2. (1 points) List of specifications of the project.
3. (8 points) Brief description of the functions of the major blocks (for example, the power
stage, the control stage) in the boost converter and, brief design and calculation of the major
components in the blocks.
4. (3 points) Simulation result for this boost converter at 30V input and 20W rated output
power
1. (can be extracted from your Lab2 report)
5. (2 points) System schematics, including open-loop and closed-loop
6. (3 points) Bill of material, list of the components used.
7. (20 points) Scope captures, including driving signals, inductor current (represented by the
voltage on the resistor in series with the inductor), and others you think are important.
Analyze the ripple current, related with your inductor and switching frequency. Draw the
Vds waveform on the MOSFET.
8. (15 points) Data collection and processing/plotting, including the efficiency vs load
(for
2. Vg=20V and 40V), and other data you think is important to reflect the system quality.
9. (5 points) Write about the debugging and testing process, such as problem encountered,
interesting findings.
10. (2 points) Suggestions to improve the project.