Advanced Electric Machines & Drives
The objective of this course is to develop the electrical engineering graduate students a research capability for advanced issues in electric machines & drives, power engineering, control engineering, and overall system integration. By taking this course, students are expected to be able to:
- Apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering to analyze and design ac electric drives and energy conversion systems in complex system environments.
- Design an electric machine and drive component under advanced feedback controls to meet desired needs.
- Formulate and solve complex engineering problems involving multiples components from the fields of electromechanical systems and power systems.
- Be able to use MATLAB, Simulink and SimPowerSystems for vector control design and analysis in ac electric machines and drives and renewable energy systems.
Power Generation, Operation and Control
The objective of this course is to develop the electrical engineering graduate students a capability for advanced research in modern electric power systems, more specially generation, operation and control issues in electric power systems. By taking this course, students are expected to be able to:
- Apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering to analyze electric power systems in complicated system environments.
- Design generation, operation and control of electric power systems to meet desired needs.
- Formulate and solve complex engineering problems involving multiples components from the fields of mathematics (optimization in particular) and power systems.
- Use modern computer tools for competitive electric power market and system modeling, design and analysis
DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS
The objective of this course is to provide the electrical engineering graduate students an overview of digital control system design by using Z-transform and state-space methods, and an understanding of the effects of sampling and digitization on design and performance of digital control systems. By taking this course, students are expected to be able to:
- Develop an understanding of engineering science in the area of mechanics, systems, and digital control.
- Develop an ability to analyze and interpret sampled and discrete data.
- Design digital control systems to meet specifications.
- Expand ability to formulate and solve engineering problems.
- Develop technical communication skills through exercises in describing discrete dynamic systems using high-level block diagrams.
- Gain proficiency with MatLab and its digital/discrete control functions of a control system.
Renewable Energy Systems
The objective of this course is to provide the electrical engineering graduate students a broad coverage on energy capture, conversion, generation and control of renewable energy conversion systems, including solar energy and wind energy as well as economics and integration of renewable energy sources with the electric grid. By taking this course, students are expected to be able to:
- have both fundamentals and a complete overview of solar and wind renewable energy systems,
- analyze renewable energy conversion systems and their integration with electric power system in both transient and dynamic steady-state perspectives
- analyze and design linear and advanced control techniques for solar photovoltaic and wind energy conversion systems
- use modern computer tools for design and investigate of diverse aspects in control, integration, and coordination of integrated renewable energy and grid systems.
Power System Protection
The overall course objective is to develop the electrical engineering graduate students a research capability for advanced researches in power system protection, electric power systems, and overall system integration. The main topics of the course include:
- Protection Against Abnormal System Frequency.
- Introduction of Power System Protection
- Protection Controls and Protective Device Characteristics
- Protection Relay Logic
- Power System Characteristics
- Fault Protection of Radial Distribution Lines
- Introduction to Transmission Protection
- Bus Protection
- Transformer and Reactor Protection
- Generator Protection