- March 08, 2022
“My experience interning at Mitsubishi Electric helped me develop a greater understanding of how I wish to proceed in my studies and ideas on what types of career opportunities I would like to pursue in the future.”
Mitsubishi is a large Japanese company with branches in many different areas such as car manufacturing, finances, and electronics. During my internship, I worked in the Power Conversion Technology Department, exploring different control techniques for DC-DC converters.
My research involved exploring different control techniques for DC-DC converters. A DC-DC converter is a device that has some input voltage and outputs a different voltage. The converter produces a different output voltage by alternatively storing and releasing energy in order to maintain a desired output. A control mechanism for a DC-DC converter regulates the switching between the two states to produce a constant outout voltage. During the course of my research, I coded a circuit simulation and conducted experiments with the goal of verifying the simulations.