Sustainable Development Goals
Abstract/Objectives
The course offers a comprehensive understanding of electric energy processing, starting with the laws of nature and life mechanisms, leading to the laws of electric energy processing and power converter structures. It aims to connect these concepts to nature, biology, and other fields, emphasizing operation and control mechanisms. Students engage in exploring power processor devices, drive circuits, and deriving various structures using the laws of nature. The course encourages students to draw parallels between electrical energy processing and natural mechanisms, fostering creativity and broadening their perspectives. The teaching progress includes an overview of physiological and physical phenomena, historical development of power processing, discussions on power components, converter structures, and analysis/design. The course aims to stimulate imagination and demonstrate the magical effects of applying natural principles to electrical energy processing.
Results/Contributions

This course starts with the laws of nature and life mechanisms, and then introduces the laws of electric energy processing and the topological structure of power converters, allowing students to have a comprehensive basic concept of electric energy processing, and can also connect it to nature, biological organs and other fields. There are operation and control mechanisms. Then, let’s go back to the devices and drive circuits required for the power processor, and use the laws of nature to derive various power processor structures. Through such enlightening training, students will be required to find mechanisms from nature or other fields that can be compared to the processing of electrical energy. Then students can realize the infinite magical effects of harnessing the principles of nature and ultimately, the principles of the world have their origins. After taking this course, it is expected that it will broaden students, horizon and stimulate their imagination. Teaching progress 1. Introduction to physiological and physical phenomena related to this course (2 weeks) 2. Introduction to the development history of power processing (1 week) 3. Discussion of power components - passive components (2 weeks) - switching components (3 weeks) 4. Midterm exam 5. Discussion on converter structure and derived principles - types of converters (1 week) - hard-switching converters (2 weeks) - soft-switching converters (2 weeks) 6. Converter analysis and design (3 weeks)

Keywords
converter analysissoft-switching convertershard-switching convertersconverter structureswitching elementspassive componentspower processingphysiological and physical phenomenadriving circuitspower processorspower converterselectric power processingNatural and life mechanisms
Contact Information
吳財福
tfwu@ee.nthu.edu.tw