This book is part of a three-book series for the sequence ofelectric power electives taught in most large universities'Electrical Engineering departments. Advances in hybrid-electriccars and alternative energy systems, coupled with the severeenvironmental problems associated with hydrocarbon-based fuels, aredriving renewed interest in the electric energy systems (EES)curriculum at the Undergraduate level.
Ned Mohan has been a leader in EES education and research fordecades, as author of the best-selling text/reference PowerElectronics with Wiley and a series of textbooks self-publishedunder the MNPERE imprint. Mohan leads a consortium of 80+universities working to revitalize electric power engineeringeducation. These texts are based on the integrated curriculumdeveloped over nearly 15 years of research in education in thisfield.
This textbook focuses on Power Electronics as one of the topics inan integrated Electric Energy Systems curriculum. It follows atop-down, systems-level approach to highlight interrelationshipsbetween the sub-fields within this curriculum, and is intended tocover both the fundamentals and practical design in asingle-semester course. The author follows a building-blockapproach to power electronics that provides an in-depth discussionof several important topics that often omitted from conventionalcourses, for example, designing feedback control,power-factor-correction circuits, soft-switching, and Space-VectorPWM.
Ned Mohan
Electrical & Electronics Engineering Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik Leistungselektronik Power Electronics