Variable Frequency Drives and Motor Controls

Course Code: ELEC 355

Academic Year: 2025-2026

This course teaches the principles of operation of the three phase Synchronous Machines (alternator and Motors), the three phase Induction Machines, fundamentals of electric drives, and their control by using Pulse Width Modulation, Sine Wave Converter and Generation of Sine Wave Techniques. Electronic control of DC and AC machines in terms of frequency, voltage, current and torque is studied in this course.