Postgraduate Prospectus

This course has a start date in September and January

The MSc Power Electronics, Machines and Drives is a flexible study programme designed for UK
industrially-based, part-time students. It enables you to combine traditional classroom-based study with modern web-based distance learning.

This part-time MSc was originally set up with EPSRC funding to provide a training programme in
Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, and their applications. The course material is regularly reviewed and updated to meet the needs of engineers in industry.

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 per cent 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, Machines and Motor Drives - 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, machines 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), and 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 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
• One-to-one project tuition with expert members of staff

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