Power Electronics Fundamentals Skills Bootcamp

Course overview

This innovative Skills Bootcamp on Power Electronics Fundmentals aims to develop your knowledge and understanding of power semiconductor materials, devices, and power electronic converters in the context of general industrial, consumer electronics and automotive applications. The 10-week course aims to equip you with a thorough understanding of various semiconductor materials, wide bandgap devices, their properties and characteristics, processing and fabrication, power conversion and switching techniques.

The course offers you the opportunity to familiarise and learn the following content:
• Understand the fundamental properties and physics of semiconductor materials.
• Understand the concepts of efficient power conversion and evaluate the properties of active and passive devices used in power electronic circuits.
• Learn about different power electronic converters in the management of electric power.

Course duration

This course will run over 10 weeks from 4 November 2024 to 13 January 2025. For more details please contact CUSkillsBootcamp@cusltd.co.uk.

Venue

This course will delivered online.

Why you should study this course

The course covers essential topics such as introduction to power conversion, basic electric and magnetic circuits, switching devices such as BJT, MOSFET, IGBT, types of electric power conversion and their converter design. The course will enable you to find a job involving energy conversion using power electronics in sectors such as energy and automotive.

About Skills Bootcamps

Skills Bootcamps are flexible courses of up to 16 weeks for adults aged 19 or over and can give you the opportunity to build up valuable sector-specific skills based on local employer demand and can provide a direct path to a job on completion. They are free to individuals. Where an employer is training an existing employee, they must contribute to the cost of the course. For small or medium sized enterprise: £440 and large sized enterprise: £1320. Please contact CUSkillsBootcamp@cusltd.co.uk for more information.

Skills Bootcamps are aimed at adults who are either unemployed, in work, self-employed, looking to change career or returning to work after a break. They are an opportunity to learn and develop technical skills in the chosen Skills Bootcamp. We encourage all eligible adults to apply, including those from underrepresented groups.

Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis to eligible applicants. Please note that individuals are only eligible to participate in one Skills Bootcamp per financial year and must not be on more than one Skills Bootcamp at any one time, but you can apply for multiple Skills Bootcamps.