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Departmental Elective Courses for B. Tech Third Year

  Course No.

Course Title

L-T-P-C


  EE 361

Applications of Static Power Converters

3-0-0-6

Course Content/Syllabus:

Introduction: Importance of Electrical Energy, Electrical Power Conversion and control, Types of static power converters, analysis of power converters.
Power systems: High Voltage DC Transmission, Reactive power compensation, Power quality management, Power conditioning for Renewable energy sources, Energy storage, Uninterruptible power supply.
Introduction to Electric drive systems: speed control of dc and ac machines, Induction motor and synchronous motor drives, Permanent magnet and stepper motor drives.
Residential and commercial applications: Electronic Equipments, Switched-mode power supply, Temperature control, Lighting.
Industrial applications: Adjustable speed drives, Induction Heating, Arc furnaces, Welding. Transportation: Locomotives, Automobiles, ships and submarines, Aerospace applications.

References:

  1. M. H. Rashid, Power Electronics Handbook, 4th edition, Elsevier, 2018
  2. J. Vithayathil, Power Electronics: Principles and Applications, 1st edition, Tata McGraw Hill Education (pvt.) Ltd., 2010.
  3. M. H. Antchev, Technologies for Electrical Power Conversion, Efficiency, and Distribution: Methods and Processes, 1st edition, Engineering Science Reference (IGI Global), 2010.

  EE 314

Flexible and Printable Electronics

3-0-0-6

Course Content/Syllabus:

Introduction to flexible, printable, wearable, and stretchable electronics; Economic viability and current industry scenario; Optoelectronic properties of organic and hybrid semiconductors; Charge injection, transport, and recombination mechanisms; Operating principles and characterization methods of devices such as solar cells, light emitting diodes, field effect transistors, memories, sensors; Flexible displays and lighting technologies; Basic display circuits; Case studies of system-on-foil; Solution-based processing and printing technologies.

References:

  1. M. M. Hussain and N. El-Atab, Handbook of Flexible and Stretchable Electronics, CRC Press, 2020.
  2. Ganz Simons, Donald Lupo, and Giovanni Nisato, Organic and Printed Electronics: Fundamentals and Applications, Stanford, CRC, 2016.
  3. Anna Köhler and Heinz Bässler, Electronics Processes in Organic Semiconductors - An Introduction, 1st Ed., Wiley-VCH, 2015.
  4. Sahel Abdinia, Arthur van Roermund, Eugenio Cantetore, Design of Organic Complementary Circuits and Systems on Foil, Springer, 2015.
  5. Sam-Shajing Sun and Larry R. Dalton, Introduction to Organic Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, 2nd Ed., CRC Press, 2015.
  6. Suganuma Katsuaki, Introduction to Printed Electronics, Springer, 2014.
  7. Wenping Hu, Organic Optoelectronics, 1st Ed., Wiley-VCH, 2013.
  8. Wolfgang Brütting and Chihaya Adachi, Physics of Organic Semiconductors, 2nd Ed., Wiley-VCH, 2012.

  EE 352

Advanced Control Systems

3-0-0-6

Course Content/Syllabus:

Frequency response design: Design of lag, lead, lag-lead and PID controllers, the Nyquist criterion, analysis and design, relative stability and the Bode diagram, closed-loop response, sensitivity, time delays;
Root locus design: construction of root loci, phase-lead and phase-lag design, PID controller design;
Modern design: controllability and observability, state feedback with integral control, reduced order observer;
Optimal control design: Solution-time criterion, Control-area criterion, Performance indices, Zero steady state step error systems;
Modern control performance index: Quadratic performance index, Ricatti equation;
Digital controllers: Use of z-transform for closed loop transient response, stability analysis using bilinear transform and Jury method, deadbeat control, Digital control design using state feedback;
On-line identification and control: On-line estimation of model and controller parameters.

References:

  1. G. F. Franklin, J. D. Powel and A. E. Emami-Naeini: Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, Pearson Education Ltd, 2020.
  2. M. Gopal: Control Systems, 3/e, Tata McGraw Hill, 2008.
  3. M. Gopal: Digital Control and State Variable Methods, Tata McGraw Hill, 2003.
  4. K. J. Astrom and T. Hagglund: Advanced PID Control, ISA, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, 2005.
  5. NPTEL Video Course “Advanced Control Systems”, https://nptel.ac.in/courses/108/103/108103007/
  6. NPTEL Web Course “Digital Control Systems”, https://nptel.ac.in/courses/108/103/108103008/

  EE 335

Information Theory & Coding

3-0-0-6

Course Content/Syllabus:

Information Theory: Entropy and mutual information for discrete ensembles; Asymptotic equipartition property; Markov chains; Shannon's noiseless coding theorem; Encoding of discrete sources. Discrete memoryless channels; Shannon's noisy coding theorem and converse for discrete channels; Calculation of channel capacity and bounds for discrete channels; Deferential entropy; Calculation of channel capacity for Gaussian channels; Rate distortion function.
Coding Theory: Linear Codes, distance bounds, generator and parity check matrices, error-syndrome table; a brief overview of rings and ideals; Cyclic codes, generator and parity check polynomials, Finite fields, applications of finite fields to cyclic codes; BCH codes and Reed-Solomon Codes; An overview of convolutional codes. Maximum likelihood decoding; Introduction to iterative codes and its sub-optimal decoding algorithms.

Texts:

  1. T. Cover & J. Thomas, Elements of Information Theory, 2nd edition, Wiley, 2006.
  2. T. Richardson & R. Urbanke, Modern Coding Theory, CUP, 2008.
  3. S. M. Moser & P. Chen, A Student's Guide to Coding and Information Theory, CUP, 2012.

References:

  1. R. E. Blahut, Algebraic Codes for Data Transmission, CUP, 2003.
  2. D. J. Mackay, Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms, CUP, 2003.
  3. Y. Polyanskiy & Y. Wu, Lecture Notes on Information Theory, unpublished, 2019.
  4. S. M. Moser, Advanced Topics in Information Theory, unpublished, 2019.