About the book:

Power electronics can be a difficult course for students to understand and for professors to teach. Simplifying the process for both, SPICE for Power Electronics and Electric Power, Third Edition illustrates methods of integrating industry standard SPICE software for design verification and as a theoretical laboratory bench.

Helpful PSpice Software and Program Files Available for Download

Based on the author Muhammad H. Rashid’s considerable experience merging design content and SPICE into a power electronics course, this vastly improved and updated edition focuses on helping readers integrate the SPICE simulator with a minimum amount of time and effort. Giving users a better understanding of the operation of a power electronics circuit, the author explores the transient behavior of current and voltage waveforms for each and every circuit element at every stage. The book also includes examples of all types of power converters, as well as circuits with linear and nonlinear inductors.

New in this edition:

·           Student learning outcomes (SLOs) listed at the start of each chapter

·           Changes to run on OrCAD version 9.2

·           Added VPRINT1 and IPRINT1 commands and examples

·           Notes that identify important concepts

·           Examples illustrating EVALUE, GVALUE, ETABLE, GTABLE, ELAPLACE, GLAPLACE, EFREQ, and GFREQ

·           Mathematical relations for expected outcomes, where appropriate

·           The Fourier series of the output voltages for rectifiers and inverters

·           PSpice simulations of DC link inverters and AC voltage controllers with PWM control

This book demonstrates techniques of executing power conversions and ensuring the quality of the output waveforms rather than the accurate modeling of power semiconductor devices. This approach benefits students, enabling them to compare classroom results obtained with simple switch models of devices. In addition, a new chapter covers multi-level converters.

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About the Author:

Muhammad H. Rashid is professor (and past director, 1997-2007) of electrical and computer engineering at the University of West Florida. Dr. Rashid received his BSc in electrical engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, and his MSc and PhD from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Previously, he worked as a professor of electrical engineering and the chair of the engineering department at Indiana University–Purdue University at Fort Wayne. He was also a visiting assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Connecticut, an associate professor of electrical engineering at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, a professor of electrical engineering at Purdue University Calumet, and a visiting professor of electrical engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Rashid was a design and development engineer with Brush Electrical Machines Ltd., UK, a research engineer with Lucas Group Research Centre, UK, and a lecturer and head of the Control Engineering Department at the Higher Institute of Electronics, Malta.

     Dr. Rashid is actively involved I teaching, researching, and lecturing about power electronics. He has published 17 books and more than 130 technical papers. His books are adopted as textbooks all over the world. His book, Power Electronics, has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Korean Italian, Chinese, Persian, and an eastern economy edition in India. His book, Microelectronics, has translations in Spanish, Italian, and Chinese.

     Professor Rashid has been invited by many foreign governments and agencies to give keynote lectures and consulted by foreign universities to serve as an external examiner for undergraduate, master’s degree, and PhD examinations, by funding agencies to review research proposals, and by U.S. and foreign universities to evaluate promotion cases for professorship. Dr. Rashid has worked as a regular employee or consultant in Canada, Korea, United Kingdom, Singapore, Malta, Libya, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Dr. Rashid has traveled to almost all the states in the United States and to several countries (Japan, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Libya, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Malta, Italy, Greece, United Kingdom, Brazil, and Mexico) to lecture and present his papers.

     Dr. Rashid was a registered professional engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada and a registered chartered engineer (UK). He is a fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE, UK) and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, USA). He was elected as an IEEE Fellow with the citation: Leadership in Power electronics education and contributions to the analysis and design methodologies of solid-state power converters. Dr. Rashid is the recipient of the 1991 Outstanding Engineer Award from The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He received the 2002 IEEE Educational Activity Award (EAB) for Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education with the citation: For contributions to the design and delivery of continuing education in power electronics and computer-aided -simulation. He is the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award with the citation: For his distinguished leadership and dedication to quality undergraduate electrical engineering education, motivating students and publication of outstanding textbooks.

     Dr. Rashid is an ABET program evaluator for electrical and computer engineering (and also in 1995-2000) and an engineering evaluator for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS, USA). He is the series editor of Power Electronics and Applications and Nanotechnology and Applications with CRC Press. He serves as the editorial advisor of Electric Power and Energy with Elsevier. He lectures and conducts workshops on Outcome-Based Education (OBE) and its implementations, including assessments. He is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Education Society and a regional speaker (previously distinguished lecture) for the IEEE Industrial Applications Society.