EECE 5680 — Electric Drives

4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: springtypical days: T/FBostonTraditional

Examines all subsystems that comprise an electric drive including electric machines, power electronic converters, mechanical system requirements, feedback controller design, and interactions with utility systems. Based on an integrative approach that requires minimal prerequisites: a junior-level course in signals and systems and some knowledge of electromagnetic field theory (possibly from physics classes), and does not require separate courses in electric machines, controls, or power electronics.

Prerequisites

one of:
- all of:
  - one of:
    - EECE 3440 (min D-)
    - EECE 2530 (min D-)
  - one of:
    - EECE 3464 (min D-)
    - EECE 2520 (min D-)
- graduate program admission

Corequisites (same term)

EECE 5681

Offering history

Term	Sections	Enrolled	Capacity	Full	Open seats/section
Spring 2025	1	19	20	95%	1.0
Spring 2026	1	16	20	80%	4.0

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 0% · T 100% · W 0% · Th 0% · F 100%

Common patterns: TF (100% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Spring

Mahshid Amirabadi (100% of students) · reviews

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Links

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