The following courses regularly monitored and taught by faculty in the Power and Energy Systems area:
This course provides the skills and techniques need for solving some typical problems faced in making engineering decisions in industry and government. The focus is on analytic schemes and systematic methodologies for making decisions with explicit consideration of the economic aspects. Topics include the time value of money, selection of alternatives, scheduling, and inventory analysis and decision-making under uncertainty. Several test cases are covered. Credit: 3 hours.
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ECE430 is an introductory course in electromechanics, presenting both the electric and magnetic quasi-static fields for analysis of energy conversion devices. The origin of forces and torques, together with the full mechanical dynamics of Newton's Second Law (NSL), are discussed. The concepts of flux linkage, energy, co-energy, and the resulting induced voltages are presented in connection with Kirchoff's voltage law (KVL). Conservation of power and energy is emphasized in energy balance analysis. An introduction to rotating machines is included with illustrative examples. Particular emphasis is given to the interaction between the electrical system, as described by KVL, and the mechanical system, as described by NSL. Credit: 3 hours.
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A combined lecture and laboratory, this course studies the theory and performance of synchronous, induction, and dc electric machines. The fifteen experiments typically include power measurement, power factor correction, transformer characteristics, three-phase transformer connections, induction motor tests, induction motor torque-speed characteristics, synchronous machine tests, synchronous machine power characteristics, digital simulation of machine dynamics, motor control, and a written and oral project presentation, usually based on a field trip experience. Credit: 4 hours.
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This course contains advanced theory and analysis of rotating and linear machines and drives. It includes power electronic drives for dc and ac motors. The analysis uses d-q transformations and related techniques. Emphasis is placed on the time-scale modeling of electromechanical devices and on their function in drives. Credit: 3 hours.
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ECE464 is a comprehensive treatment of switching power conversion systems and the devices used to build them. Concepts of switching control are developed form general switching functions. Phase control, pulse width modulation, and phase modulation are studied for application in all types of converters. Converter topologies are introduced along with design concepts for power filters and interfaces. Devices such as diodes, thyristors, bipolar transistors, field effect transistors, capacitors, and magnetic components are examined in the contest of high-power switching applications. Credit: 3 hours. A full web course has been prepared, and is offered through the College of Engineering.
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Elements of Power Electronics - P. T. Krein
This is a laboratory course that focuses on circuits and devices used for switching power converters, solid-state motor drives, and power controllers. Included are dc-dc, ac-dc, and dc-ac converters and their application. The experiments provide the students experience in working and designing with SCRs, diodes, capacitors, power transistors, and magnetic components. It is designed to accompany ECE 364. Credit: 2 hours.
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This first of two courses on power system analysis presents transmission line parameter calculations, equivalent circuits, network analysis, load flow, fault analysis, symmetrical components, unsymmetrical fault analysis, and introduction to economic dispatch and relaying. The course is designed to present the fundamentals of power system analysis and to prepare students for the follow-up course, ECE 378. Credit: 3 hours.
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The second of two courses on power system analysis, ECE 378 treats the economic operation of power systems, optimal load flow concepts, automatic generation control, state estimation, classical transient stability, modeling for dynamic and transient stability, and d-c transmission. Credit: 3 hours.
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This course addresses issues of electrical drives in a modern control and circuit framework. Dynamic models of electric machines are presented. Field-oriented control methods for ac motors are especially emphasized. Power electronic systems for high-performance drives are studied. Nonlinear system methods such as periodic transformations, averaging, geometric control, and feedback linearization are presented. Special topics include electrostatic micromachines and permanent magnet machines. Credit: 4 hours.
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This course discusses energy control center functions, power system operating states, supervisory control and data acquisition, state estimation, on-line load flow, security assessment, economic dispatch, automatic generation control, optimal power flow, security constrained economic dispatch, multistage rescheduling, and equivalents. Credit: 4 hours.
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ECE 576 discusses the dynamic representation of interconnected power systems in both the electrical and mechanical realms. Also covered are linearized dynamic models of multimachine systems, methods of coherency identification, order reduction by singular perturbation, time-scale decomposition and aggregation techniques, dynamic equivalents, direct methods of stability analysis, and power system stabilizer design. Credit: 4 hours.
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This course covers the basic techniques of electric utility resource planning, including methodologies for reliability evaluation and assessment, production costing, marginal costing, supply-side and demand-side planning, and integrated resource planning. Throughout the course, probabilistic approaches are emphasized. Credit: 4 hours.
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This course is a graduate seminar on advanced topics of current interest. Both faculty and students participate by presenting either current research results or topics of interest in journal publications. Guest speakers from industry and other universities are also scheduled periodically throughout the semester. Credit: 0 to 2 hours.
This course covers fundamental analysis techniques for the analysis of large-scale electrical systems, including methods for nonlinear and switched systems. The course stresses the importance of the structural characteristics of such systems. The key aspects of static and dynamic analysis methods are presented. Credit: 4 hours.
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