International Program

Master Program for International Students

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School of Electrical Engineering

Chongqing University

Chongqing, China


Master’s Program Overview

This programme is designed to provide graduates from with a thorough understanding of electric, electronic devices and circuits and the systems in which they operate. The programme is flexible in allowing students to select the areas in which they wish to develop their expertise. The programme will allow graduates from an Electrical Engineering background to develop their skills further as well as allowing able students from other numerate degree backgrounds to build up a strong expertise in this area to complement their original undergraduate study. The program offers a high quality education to broaden students’ view and enhance their career opportunity.

Objectives

l To provide a broadly based advanced post-graduate program for professionals who already possess a degree in electrical engineering related subjects.

l To furnish graduates with expertise in the practical design, construction, theory, and usage of modern technology in electrical engineering.

l To equip students with comprehensive and in-depth knowledge in the scope of Electrical Engineering.

l To train professionals to meet the society and industry needs

Main Features

l The program covers most state-of-art topics of Electrical Engineering.

l The program aims at providing a broad spectrum of the knowledge and application of Electrical Engineering.

l Students can complete their studies in 2 years on a full-time basis.

Degree Award

In order to fulfil the MSc degree requirements, students must:

l Pass at least 8 courses in order to gain the 24 credit units in total,

l Complete a project dissertation and pass the project examination.

Upon successful completion of the program, students will be awarded the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering by Chongqing University.

Program Organization (MSc/MEng)

Course Title: Applied Mathematics Numerical Methods

Credit Units: 3

Course Description

This course will emphasize the development of numerical algorithms to provide solutions to common problems formulated in electrical engineering. The primary objective of the course is to develop the basic understanding of the construction of numerical algorithms, and perhaps more importantly, the applicability and limits of their appropriate use. The emphasis of the course will be the thorough study of numerical algorithms to understand: 1) the guaranteed accuracy that various methods provide; 2) the efficiency and scalability for large scale systems.; 3) issues of stability.

Topics Covered:

  • root finding for nonlinear equations,

  • interpolation and approximation of functions by simpler computational building blocks  (for example - polynomials and splines).

  • numerical differentiation and divided differences

  • numerical quadrature and integration,

  • numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations and boundary value problems;

An important component of numerical analysis is computational implementation of algorithms which are developed in the course in order to observe first hand the issues of accuracy, computational work effort, and stability. Exercises will include computational experiments in a programming language of the student's choice. One class lecture will be devoted to a high level pseudo-code type programming language (Matlab) which will suffice in case students have not had prior programming experience. Attendence is required and the exams will be over the lectures and homework.

Technical Requirements

Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .m (MATLAB® files).

Course Title: Modern Power Electronics

Credit Units: 3

Course Description

This course provides an introduction to power electronics and its applications. The broad objective of the course is to teach students energy conversion and processing using power electronic converters. It aims to develop student knowledge and understanding of power devices, converters and help students apply their mathematical skills and knowledge of electronics to a number of practical problems. At the end of this course students will be able to explain working of various power devices and converters, derive converters mathematical relations, analyze and design electronics for the control of energy converters. Laboratory exercises are basically guided design problems. Extensive use of Matlab is also included in this course.

Topics Covered:

  • Introduction to power devices including single carrier devices, mixed carrier devices and two carrier devices.

  • Design of power device drivers and introduction to PICs, HVICs and gate driver ICs.

  • Principles of energy converters including uncontrolled converters, single phase controlled converters and control of single-phase converters.

  • Poly-phase AC-DC converters and control of poly-phase converters.

  • Single-phase voltage source inverters and control of single-phase inverters.

  • Voltage source 3-phase bridge inverters.

  • Control of square wave inverters.

  • Isolated  power supply design and grounding issues in power electronics.

  • Pulse width modulation techniques and generation of PWM signals using analog and digital electronics.

  • Programmed PWM techniques and resulting harmonics.

  • Switched mode DC-DC converters, buck converter, boost converter and buck-boost converter.

  • Introduction to current source inverter and cyclo-converters.

Laboratory:

There will be five labs in this course. Some detail is given below. A detailed description of these labs may be found on the course website.

Lab1: Program a PIC16F684 to generate PWM signal to control a power MOSFET based light dimmer.

Lab2: Program a PIC12F683 to generate PWM signals for speed control of a DC motor.

Lab3: Program a PIC12F675 to generate Sine-PWM waveforms required for the four switches of a single-phase inverter.

Lab4: Program a PIC16F688 to generate Sine-PWM waveforms required for the six switches of a three-phase inverter.

Lab5: Design, build and test a 12V to 24V boost type DC-DC converter. (two weeks task)



Course Title: Electric Power Systems

Credit Units: 3

Course Description

Electric Power Systems, 3 Cr. U/G. Elements of A Power System; Per –Unit Quantities; Load Flow Study; Economic Dispatch; Symmetrical Components; Fault Study; System Protection; Stability

Topics Covered:

  • Basic concepts of a.c. single-phase and three-phase power.

  • Per-unit calculation

  • Transformer analysis

  • Synchronous machines

  • Y-bus and Z-bus matrices

  • Load flow analysis

  • Symmetrical components

  • Balanced three-phase fault study

  • Unbalanced fault study


Course Title: Control Technology of Electrical Machines

Credit Units: 3

Course Description

This course describes the control technology of electrical machines, which involves the basic law of magnetic circuit, common characteristics of ferromagnetic materials and settlement, Basic understanding on the structures of the 3 special electrical motors (DC motor, induction motor and synchronous motor) and transformers, calculation and analysis on the leakage magnetic field of transformer and motors.

Course Title: Digital Signal Processing

Credit Units: 3

Course Description

Basic concepts of discrete linear shift-invariant systems are emphasized, including sampling, quantization, and reconstruction of analog signals. Extensive coverage of the Z-transform, discrete Fourier transform, and fast Fourier transform is given. An overview of digital filter design includes discussion of impulse invariance, bilinear transform, and window functions. Filter structures, finite length register effects, roundoff noise, and limit cycles in discrete-time digital systems are also covered.

Course Title: Engineering Electromagnetics

Credit Units: 3

Course Description

The objective is to develop the student's understanding of the theoretical foundations of electromagnetics and to introduce the student to some of the more important engineering applications of this theory. After completing this course the student will understand the basic principles of electricity and magnetism and their expression in terms of Maxwell's equations. The student will also be able to apply Maxwell's equations to some important problems of electromagnetic engineering, including the propagation of radio waves and the principles behind basic electrical machines and transformers.

Course Title: Artificial Intelligence Technology

Credit Units: 3

Course Description

The incorporation of advanced techniques in reasoning and problem solving into modern, complex systems has become pervasive. Often, these techniques fall within the realm of artificial intelligence. This course focuses on artificial intelligence from an agent perspective, and explores issues of knowledge representation and reasoning. Students will participate in lectures and discussions on various topics, including heuristic and stochastic search, logical and probabilistic reasoning, planning, learning, and perception. Advanced topics will be selected from areas such as robotics, vision, natural language processing, and philosophy of mind. Students will complete problem sets and small software projects to gain hands-on experience with the techniques and issues covered.

Course Title: Distributed Power Generation Technology

Credit Units: 3

Course Description

This is one of the hottest subjects in today's fast-paced energy marketplace. Every day the energy sales market becomes more competitive. Whether you are working in a regulated distributed power generation utility, an unregulated energy marketer, or are a large industrial or commercial energy user there are reliability and economic issues that distributed generation can address.

This course focuses on the thermodynamic evaluation of modern power generation technologies, including fossil and nuclear Rankine cycle power plants, gas turbines, cogeneration power plants, distributed power generation, and fuel cells. Topics important to the future of energy technology and power generation are also addressed.

Course Title: Electrical Engineering Lab Skills

Credit Units: 3

Course Description

This course introduces students to both passive and active electronic components. Basic analog and digital circuits and theory of operation are covered. The labs allow the students to master the use of electronic instruments and construct and/or solder several circuits. The labs also reinforce the concepts discussed in class with a hands-on approach and allow the students to gain significant experience with electrical instruments such as function generators, digital multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and power supplies. In the last lab, the students build an electronic circuit that they can keep. The course is geared to freshmen and others who want an introduction to electronics circuits.

Course Title: Academic Workshop

Credit Units: 2

Course Description

This course is mainly regarding the introduction the development of electrical engineering around the world, and introduction of the subfield in electrical engineering, such as the control and theory of electrical machine, electric power, high voltage engineering, electric power electronic, new technology and theory in electrical engineering. In addition introduction of the new techniques emerging in electrical engineering will be presented.

Course Title: Introduction of Chinese Culture

Credit Units: 2

Course Description

This short term course bridges the pre-semester signature seminar and the start of semester courses. Through lectures, films, group discussions and visits to museums and other sites, students will learn different aspects of Chinese culture, and experience and explore Chinese ways of life.