Spring 2027

Solid State Power Conversion

Advanced solid state power conversion covering switching converters (DC/AC types), commutation, control, and interfacing with sources and loads.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Daniel Costinett

Summary

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Past student reviews · Steven Fredette

Homework was reported as excessive, even when completed in groups of four, with students finding the coding assignments demanding despite the perceived lack of educational value.

Grade history

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Prerequisites

Course map

E C E 412 and graduate/professional standing

    • ECE 412
    • graduate/professional standing
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ECE 712

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  • All of
    • ECE 412
    • graduate/professional standing

Professors

Spring 2027
Historical instructors & teaching patterns

STEVEN FREDETTE is recorded teaching in Fall 2013, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 250
LEC 003Online Only0 / 350

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Steven Fredette

Past students described the course as a poor experience, noting that it felt like repetitive MATLAB coding for a single problem rather than a substantive engineering class.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.81 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=27 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.84 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=51 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.85 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Steven Fredette

Homework was reported as excessive, even when completed in groups of four, with students finding the coding assignments demanding despite the perceived lack of educational value.

Past student reviews · Steven Fredette

Students found the lectures horrible and felt they learned very little, noting that the instructor was unwilling to help with the coding components of the assignments.

Topics

  • Switching power converters
  • DC-to-DC, AC-to-DC, DC-to-AC, and AC-to-AC converters
  • Commutation techniques
  • Converter control
  • Interfacing converters with real sources and loads

Skills

  • Understanding of switching power converters
  • Converter control
  • Interfacing converters with real sources and loads

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Grades over time

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
ECE 712 · Spring 2027

Solid State Power Conversion

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
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    "term_id": "1274",
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    "source_subject_id": "320",
    "title": "Solid State Power Conversion",
    "credits_min": 3,
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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  "output_id": "4633c824784620ef5e5fc9ada2247a907912d712741cf9d60133d6756ddbb7bb",
  "requirements_status": "valid",
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