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Course overview
This innovative Skills Bootcamp on Power Electronics Fundmentals aims to develop your knowledge and understanding of power semiconductor materials, devices, and power electronic converters in the context of general industrial, consumer electronics and automotive applications. The 10-week course aims to equip you with a thorough understanding of various semiconductor materials, wide bandgap devices, their properties and characteristics, processing and fabrication, power conversion and switching techniques.
The course offers you the opportunity to familiarise and learn the following content:
- Understand the fundamental properties and physics of semiconductor materials.
- Understand the concepts of efficient power conversion and evaluate the properties of active and passive devices used in power electronic circuits.
- Learn about different power electronic converters in the management of electric power.
Applications are accepted from West Midlands Combined Authority residents only.
Course duration
This course will run over 10 weeks from 13 January 2025 to 21 March 2025. For more details please contact CUSkillsBootcamp@cusltd.co.uk.
Venue
This course will delivered online.
Why you should study this course
The course covers essential topics such as introduction to power conversion, basic electric and magnetic circuits, switching devices such as BJT, MOSFET, IGBT, types of electric power conversion and their converter design. The course will enable you to find a job involving energy conversion using power electronics in sectors such as energy and automotive.
About Skills Bootcamps
Skills Bootcamps are flexible courses of up to 16 weeks for adults aged 19 or over and can give you the opportunity to build up valuable sector-specific skills based on local employer demand and can provide a direct path to a job on completion. They are free to individuals. Where an employer is training an existing employee, they must contribute to the cost of the course. For small or medium sized enterprise: £440 and large sized enterprise: £1320. Please contact CUSkillsBootcamp@cusltd.co.uk for more information.
Skills Bootcamps are aimed at adults who are either unemployed, in work, self-employed, looking to change career or returning to work after a break. They are an opportunity to learn and develop technical skills in the chosen Skills Bootcamp. We encourage all eligible adults to apply, including those from underrepresented groups.
Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis to eligible applicants. Please note that individuals are only eligible to participate in one Skills Bootcamp per financial year and must not be on more than one Skills Bootcamp at any one time, but you can apply for multiple Skills Bootcamps.
For business
This Power Electronics Fundamentals Bootcamp offers a timely and strategic opportunity to equip the workforce with critical competencies needed for efficient energy management and power conversion in EV systems.
EV manufacture and the continued transition to EV production requires the development of capability and capacity in the workforce through quickly understanding and implementing power electronics technologies in automotive applications, specifically EV systems.
This course has been designed to provide employees with a thorough understanding of power semiconductor materials, wide bandgap devices, power converters, and their applications in automotive energy systems at a foundational level.
Power electronics are integral to EV performance, and upskilling employees in this area ensures an agile and responsive workforce to meet the growing demand for high-efficiency power management.
With the EV market expanding rapidly, this bootcamp aims to prepare employees for long-term employability and could help towards positioning the company as a leader in the transition to sustainable automotive technologies.
This subsidised 10-week Bootcamp on Power Electronics Fundamentals offers a practical, flexible, and industry-relevant training programme that aligns with the need to upskill and reskill employees efficiently.
Why choose this bootcamp?
- Flexible delivery: The course is delivered online, allowing employees to balance their training with work commitments.
- Employer-focused: Tailored to the specific needs of the automotive sector, this bootcamp strives to ensure that the workforce gains the most relevant skills at a foundational level for EV production.
- Strategic timing: The current bootcamp runs from 13 January 2025 – 21 March 2025, providing a focused and efficient learning window to access the subsidised training. Deadline for applications is 29 November 2024.
Collaborations with other organisations
West Midlands Combined Authority
Gradcore
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Disclaimers
Course disclaimer
Coventry University together with Coventry University London, Coventry University Wrocław, CU Coventry, CU London, CU Scarborough, and Coventry University Online come together to form part of the Coventry University Group (the University) with all degrees awarded by Coventry University.
1Accreditations
The majority of our courses have been formally recognised by professional bodies, which means the courses have been reviewed and tested to ensure they reach a set standard. In some instances, studying on an accredited course can give you additional benefits such as exemptions from professional exams (subject to availability, fees may apply). Accreditations, partnerships, exemptions and memberships shall be renewed in accordance with the relevant bodies’ standard review process and subject to the university maintaining the same high standards of course delivery.
2UK and international opportunities
Please note that we are unable to guarantee any UK or international opportunities (whether required or optional) such as internships, work experience, field trips, conferences, placements or study abroad opportunities and that all such opportunities may be unpaid and/or subject to additional costs (which could include, but is not limited to, equipment, materials, bench fees, studio or facilities hire, travel, accommodation and visas), competitive application, availability and/or meeting any applicable travel, public authority guidance, decisions or orders and visa requirements. To ensure that you fully understand any visa requirements, please contact the International Office.
3Tuition fees
The University will charge the tuition fees that are stated in the above table for the first Academic Year of study. The University will review tuition fees each year. For UK (home) students, if Parliament permit an increase in tuition fees, the University may increase fees for each subsequent year of study in line with any such changes. Note that any increase is expected to be in line with inflation.
For international students, we may increase fees each year, but such increases will be no more than 5% above inflation. If you defer your course start date or have to extend your studies beyond the normal duration of the course (e.g. to repeat a year or resit examinations) the University reserves the right to charge you fees at a higher rate and/or in accordance with any legislative changes during the additional period of study.
4Facilities
Facilities are subject to availability. Access to some facilities (including some teaching and learning spaces) may vary from those advertised and/or may have reduced availability or restrictions where the university is following public authority guidance, decisions or orders.
Student Contract
By accepting your offer of a place and enrolling with us, a Student Contract will be formed between you and the university. A copy of the current 2024/2025 contract is available on the website. The Contract details your rights and the obligations you will be bound by during your time as a student and contains the obligations that the university will owe to you. You should read the Contract before you accept an offer of a place and before you enrol at the university.