I was introduced to power electronics concepts through a class at Olin taught by Prof. Beat Arnet.

• The class saw us designing and assembling our own flyback power converters across the course of a semester.

The final project of the course was increasing the efficiency of the converters we had built.

• Our team of three chose to do the following for a 16% decrease in power loss:
  • Rewinding our iron-core transformer to reduce the leakage inductance.
  • Choosing a switching FET with less on-resistance.
  • Designing a more efficient voltage clamp.

I then applied what I learned in this class to my senior capstone project, where I implemented a regenerative braking controller for an off-the-shelf brushless DC motor.