E E 556 - Solar Power Systems

(3 units)

Prerequisites: Open to Electrical Engineering MS and Engineering MS students only.
Solar power systems requirements and analysis, criteria of environmental qualification, operation principles, design, fabrication, testing of key components. Process for device design, fabrication, testing methods, modeling and simulations. Solar thermal, solar power plants, satellite solar modules, Building Integrated Photovoltaics.

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-problems 3 hours)