Industrial Electronics Design

The application of electronics to energy conversion and control; Phase-controlled rectifier / inverter circuits, dc/dc converters, and motion control systems; Characteristics of power semiconductor devices; diodes, bipolar and field effect transistors, and thyristors; Interfacing the analog and digital world; Transducers and their applications in sensing light, voltage, pressure, motion, current, temperature, etc; Mechanical relays, solid state relays, and stepping motors; Real-time control and remote control concepts in instrumentation; Microprocessor and microcomputer based systems; Fire alarm, burglar alarms, and general home and industrial instrumentation.