• Reliability of power electronics
• stress-strength analysis
• design for reliability
• wear-out failure
• Ansys
• Number of cycles to failure
• maintenance
   

The participant must have knowledge and competences like the level of an engineer with a MSc in power electronics, probability and control of power electronics converters. The relevant topics of reliability will be provided as pre-read documents and will be covered during teaching.

1. Fundamental concepts of reliability Engineering
2. Structural reliability and stress strength analysis
3. Introduction to converter reliability prediction
4. Impacts of converter control on PEPS reliability
5. Reliability modeling in PEPS
6. Model-based design for reliability in PEPS
7. Model-based maintenance scheduling in PPES
8. Reliability enhancement in PEPS
9. Challenges and opportunities

The course counts for 2 ECTS credit. All students will receive a diploma stating participation in the course.

Remarks - workload: In total about 56 hours (26 teaching and practicing, 10 hours for preparations, 20 for finalizing a student report and XX hours for examination)

Evaluation form:Active engagement during the course and report on the two mini projects.

Criteria for assessment: Active engagement during the course and report on the mini projects.

Selected articles, book chapters, presentations and software will be announced to the participants at the course site in PhD moodle. 

Please register here at the website of The Doctoral School in Engineering and Science here.

Please observe that it is impossible to register for PhD courses until 4 months before start

Outside of AAU
If you are from outside Aalborg University and you wish to enroll in one of our PhD courses, you must create a profile. This is done by clicking on “create new account” and filling out the form in PhD Moodle.

Cancellation
Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. The Doctoral School has a no-show fee of DKK 3.000 for each course where the student does not show up.

Registered illness sent to the course organizer and the aauphd@aau.dk is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days.

Diploma
All passed participants will receive a diploma as a PDF file.
The Doctoral School kindly ask for your patience, as it might take a while before you receive the final course diploma. This is due to the process of gathering evaluations.

Please address questions regarding the evaluation or issue of the diploma to the Doctoral School, via email at phdcourses@adm.aau.dk

More information: www.energy.aau.dk/research/phd   

6000 DKK for PhD students outside of Denmark and 8000 DKK for other participants (Private, Industry and Universities) VAT-FREE Education)

PhD Student from Danish universities: The Danish universities have entered into an agreement that allows PhD students at a Danish university (except Copenhagen Business School) the opportunity to free of charge take a subject-specific course at another Danish university. Read more here: https://phdcourses.dk/ 

Guests at AAU Energy: Enrolled Guest PhD Students at AAU Energy can attend free of charge on the course if  available seats.

Course Coordinator: Associate Professor, Saeed Peyghami, sap@energy.aau.dk 

Course Administrator: Louise Levisen, lmle@energy.aau.dk

AAU's Doctoral School, phdcourses@adm.aau.dk