Course Overview

Domain
Engineering
Format
Modular Certification Course
Duration
3+ months
Fee Subsidy
Up to 90% SF Funding
Professional Development Units

PDU (PEB) – Pending approval

Effective from AY2025/26 Trimester 2 (January 2026), the Postgraduate Certificate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering will be transiting to Graduate Certificate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. For more details, please refer to the full notice here.

This module provides participants with in-depth knowledge, skills, and competency in the modelling, simulation, and design of power electronic conversion systems.

These skills and knowledge are essential for the effective, safe, and stable operation and usage of modern power conversion equipment with the growing penetration of renewables, distributed energy resources, and power conversion devices. Theory and practise using computer-aided engineering software such as PLECs will be taught. Simulation, design, and analysis techniques of power converters used in modern power supplies, power drives, and power compensation are emphasised.

Who Should Attend

  • Engineers working in the power and energy sector
  • Railway electrical power supply and propulsion professionals
  • Electrical and electronic engineering professionals
  • Researchers and educators in electrical engineering and urban sustainability-related areas
Prerequisites
  • Bachelor degree in Engineering
  • At least one-year of relevant working experience

What You Will Learn

Power semiconductor devices

  • Introduction to design and analysis of power electronic systems
  • High power density and efficiency design, modular design
  • Power semiconductor devices
  • Bipolar and unipolar silicon power device characteristics 
  • Diodes, thyristors, power MOSFETs, IGBTs, Wide-band-gap power devices

Power electronic passive and magnetic devices

  • Magnetics in power electronics
  • Losses in magnetic cores
  • Design of inductors and transformers based on area product method, skin effects and interleaved windings
  • Passive components, capacitors, thermal management, heat sinks, drivers and controllers, power device protection, snubbers and Safe operating areas

Conversion to DC power

  • AC to DC rectification, single-phase and 3-phase uncontrolled and controlled rectifiers, high pulse number rectifiers, total harmonic distortion and ripple factor
  • DC to DC Conversion, switching pole, buck, boost and buck-boost topologies, continuous and discontinuous conduction
  • Synchronous rectification, two and four quadrant DC choppers

Conversion to AC power

  • DC to AC inversion, pulse-width modulation, space vector modulation
  • Single-phase and 3-phase inverters, voltage-source and current-source inverters
  • AC to AC converters without DC-Link, matrix converters, practical implementation issues in such converters

Power converters for energy supply

  • Applications in flexible AC transmission and HVDC transmission, power converters for solar PV and wind turbines
  • Multi-level converters for high voltage applications, 3-level inverters, diode-clamped and neutral-point-clamped, cascaded H-bridge

Power converters for energy demand

  • Bidirectional power flow converters, PWM inverter-rectifiers, H-bridges, power factor correction/active harmonic filters, 
  • Special circuits: Z-source inverters
  • Soft switching and resonant converters to reduce losses, zero-voltage switching, zero-current switching, synchronous rectification

Teaching Team

Eng Kian Sng
Eng Kian Sng

Associate Professor, Engineering, Singapore Institute of Technology

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Schedule

Course Run Dates Time
August - December 2023 Run  31  August - 3 December 2023 (Every Thursday*) 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

 

*Subject to change

Certificate and Assessment

A Certificate of Attainment will be issued to participants who:

  • Attend at least 75% of the module; and
  • Undertake and pass credit bearing assessment (worth 6 credits) during the module, which can be stacked towards the Postgraduate Certificate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Participants who meet the attendance requirement but do not pass the assessment will receive a Certificate of Participation.

Fee Structure

The full fee for this course is S$3,606.88

Category After SF Funding
Singapore Citizen (Below 40) S$1,082.06
Singapore Citizen (40 & Above) S$420.25
Singapore PR / LTVP+ Holder S$1,082.06
Non-Singapore Citizen S$3,606.88 (No Funding)


Note: All fees above include GST. GST applies to individuals and Singapore-registered companies.

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Funding
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Course Runs

May 2025
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08 May 2025 - 07 Aug 2025
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3+ months
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Synchronous eLearning
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SIT Punggol Campus, 1 Punggol Coast Road, Singapore 828608
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SGD $3,606.88
Up to 90% SF Funding
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11 Apr 2025 23:59
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Learning Pathway

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Earn a Postgraduate Certificate

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