Postgraduate Prospectus

This course has a start date in September 

This prestigious training programme has been developed to provide an up-to-date and dynamic course in Power Electronics and Drives, and their applications.

The control and conversion of electric power using solid-state techniques are now commonplace in both the domestic and industrial environments. A recent estimate suggested that over 40% of all electric power generated passes through silicon before reaching its final destination.

A knowledge and understanding of the diverse disciplines encompassed by Power Electronics -devices, converters, control theory and motor drive systems - is therefore essential to all power engineers.

This course aims to provide a specialist education in power electronics and drives techniques, covering key fundamental principles along with modern applications and current practices.

• The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nottingham has long been at the forefront of research and teaching in the area of Power Electronics and Drives
• The development of the programme has been funded by a £350k grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).  It was one of the first programmes to be funded under the new Master Training Package initiative, which is intended to enhance the provision of industrially-relevant, advanced level training in engineering and science
• The Faculty of Engineering is widely recognised as world-class. This fact is borne out by the high standard of our research and the extensive funding it attracts - overall research awards recently topped £80m
• The Faculty of Engineering conducts research that has been recognised by the Research Assessment Exercise (2008) as being world-leading or internationally excellent, placing it in the UK’s top five universities for engineering

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