EC ENGR C115P · EE C115PPower Electronics
Electrical and Computer Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Recommended: courses 115A, 115B. Introduction of principles, analysis, and design of power electronic circuits used in modern energy conversion systems. Topics include the operation and modeling of semiconductor power devices such as diodes, bipolar junction transistors (BJTs), metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), wide-bandgap devices, and passive components including inductors, capacitors, and magnetic elements. Covers fundamental power converter topologies, including alternating concurrent (AC) and direct current (DC) converters. Emphasis on steady-state and dynamic behavior, efficiency, losses, and thermal considerations. Introduction of analytical techniques such as averaged modeling, small-signal analysis, and frequency-domain methods to support controller design and system-level performance evaluation. Concurrently scheduled with course C215P.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
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Requisites: courses 100 or 110, and 102.
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EC ENGR C115P
- EC ENGR 100Electrical and Electronic Circuits
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- EC ENGR 102Systems and Signals
- MATH 33BDifferential Equations
- EC ENGR 110Circuit Theory II
- EC ENGR 10Circuit Theory I
- EC ENGR 3Introduction to Electrical Engineering
- EC ENGR 11LCircuits Laboratory I
- MAT SCI 10Freshman Seminar: New Materials
- COM SCI 1Freshman Computer Science Seminar
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- EC ENGR M16Logic Design of Digital Systems
- COM SCI M51ALogic Design of Digital Systems
- EC ENGR 111LCircuits Laboratory II
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