A kötelező előtanulmányi rend az adott szak honlapján és képzési programjában található.

1. week: Transformer: operation principle, construction, equivalent circuit, vector diagram, operation.

2. week: Kinetics of electric drives (referring the inertia and torque to common shaft, stability, motion equation, time constants). Using the per-unit system.

3. week: Construction and operation of DC machine, its induced voltage, torque and equivalent circuit.

4-5. week: Excitation methods of DC machines, mechanical characteristics. Constant voltage supply. Starting of DC machines. Braking methods of DC machines: regenerative, resistive, plugging. Speed modification. 

6. week: Converter-fed DC drives. Converter topologies. Operation neglecting the overlap. Power conditions of converter-fed DC drives.

7. week: Topology, control and characteristics of the DC chopper-fed DC drives.  

8-9. week: 3-phase vectors (Park.vectors). Magnetic fields and induced voltage of AC machines. Induction machine: operation principle, equivalent circuit, power flow, vector diagram, current vector diagram, mechanical characteristic curve for constant voltage supply.

10. week: Starting of induction machines. Braking methods of induction machines: regenerative, plugging, dynamic braking. Speed modification methods of induction machines: modifying the rotor resistance, modifying the supply voltage, modifying the pole-pair number.

11-12. week: Frequency-converter-fed induction machine drives. Operation and voltage waveform of simple inverter. PWM voltage-source inverter-fed drive.

13. week: Synchronous machine: operation principle, construction, equivalent circuit, vector diagram, connecting to the network, load development, torque. Current vector diagram of the cylindrical rotor synchronous machine.

14. week: Static and dynamic stability of synchronous machines.

Practices: computation practices in starting , connections, upper-harmonics, per-unit values, time constants, vector diagrams.