Coursera: Intro to Power Electronics (Course on SMPS)

[pedrodagr8]

I thought this might be REALLY interesting for a lot of the people on here. It's a university course on SMPS. Might help some of us that have a hard time learning on our own.

https://www.coursera.org/course/powerelectronics

For those that don't know Coursera consists of free online college classes. You don't get credit but you get quizzes, homework, lectures, etc. For those that like the structure of a classroom when learning it can be very useful. It starts in about a week or two.

According to a poster on EEVBlog forum:

Robert Erickson is a well-known guy in the SMPS circles. I have some of his books and they are worth their price. The Fundamentals of Power Electronics - the course material, is by Erickson and Maksimovich, another name guy. Also both have written a lot of good articles to Spectrum, the IEEE magazine. So i expect this to be a good course.