Electric Energy Systems Curriculum for Sustainability

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1 ONR/NSF/DOE-funded Workshop: Electric Energy Systems Curriculum for Sustainability Napa, California February 7-10,

2 Group Effort UMN Colleagues Project Advisors and Mentors Past and Present Students CUSP Colleagues Workshop Organization 2

3 Sponsors Center for Electric Energy NSF / NASA/ EPRI ONR Terry Ericsen, Peter Cho DOE 3

4 Recent Grants: 1. ONR grant no. N Center for Reforming Undergraduate Education in Electric Energy Systems A Critical Infrastructure for National security 06/01/ /30/ ONR grant no. N "Center for Developing and Disseminating a Graduate/Undergraduate Curriculum in Electric Energy Systems, 6/1/2011-5/30/ NSF Grant ONR/NSF-Sponsored Workshops on Reforming Graduate/Undergraduate Curriculum in Electric Energy Systems 09/15/ /31/ NSF Grant Collaborative Research: An Innovative Instructional Strategy for Widespread Dissemination of Electric Energy Systems Curriculum as a Model in STEM Education 01/01/ /31/ DOE Grant A Nationwide Consortium of Universities, led by the University of Minnesota, to Revitalize Electric Power Engineering Education by Stateof-the-Art Laboratories 4

5 Electric Power Source: DOE 5

6 Why the need for Reinvigorating Electric Energy Education? 6

7 Mission: Develop a Complete Curriculum in Electric Energy Education Enable all universities to - Provide a first-rate education and - Graduate students in large numbers 7

8 Example Harnessing Wind Energy 161kV V 0 T im e L o w -V o lta g e R id e -T h ro u g h V Hz P o w e r E le c tro n ic s C o n v e rte rs G enerator 690V 60 Hz kv 8

9 Undergraduate Curriculum - Only 3 Senior Electives P o w e r E le c tr ic E le c tr o n ic s D r iv e s C o r e C o u r s e s P o w e r S y s te m s Students are Broadly Trained. 9

10 Enrollment Student Enrollments students students PE PS ED Year 10

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12 Courses Developed P o w e r E le c tr ic E le c tr o n ic s D r iv e s C o r e C o u r s e s P o w e r S y s te m s - Fundamentals-based - Tightly Coupled - Use commonality - in-depth coverage - more topics - State-of-the-art labs 12

13 Power Electronics: First Course Switching Power-Pole as a Building Block v a ( t ) i a ( t ) A C m o to r i A ( t) ea ( t) ( a ) V d n P R e c tifie r In v e rte r P m o to rin g m o d e re g e n e ra tiv e b ra k in g m o d e v sa ( t ) i a ( t ) L s i A ( t ) L eq e A ( t ) ( b ) n c b a V d A B C d c d b d a d A d B d C a c m o to r I a1 I A1 L s L eq 13

14 Electric Drives: First Course - Systems View including PPU and Control 14

15 Power Systems: First Course Software-based Lab 15

16 Graduate Courses under Development 1. Graduate Course on Power Electronics (collaborative effort) 2. Graduate Course on Power Systems (collaborative effort) 3. HVDC Transmission Systems (Ani Gole) 4. Electric Machines and Drives: Modeling and Control (Mohan) 5. Power Generation, Operation and Control (Bruce Wollenberg) 6. Designing Electric Machines (Jim Hendershot) 7. Power System Protection (Pratap Mysore) 8. Wind Energy Essentials (collaborative effort) 9. Electricity Markets (Ross Baldick) 10.? 11.?? 12.???

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18 Each course consists of the following: 1. List of Course Learning Objectives 2. Textbook 3. Video clips for each lecture: - approximately 30 such video clips - average of 15-minutes long a. Captions b. PowerPoint Slides c. Concept Quizzes 4. In-class discussion problems 5. Hardware Lab + Manual 6. Software Lab + Manual 7. Online Homework Problems using Moodle 8. A Discussion Forum You are free to use as much of it, or as little of it, and use it in a way that you want it not necessarily how we use it. 18

19 Uniqueness of Our Approach Force Multiplier: Aimed at faculty to provide all the resources that are needed Teaching the Teachers! Archiving Institutional Knowledge: Reaching out to best experts in the world Evolving these Courses to keep them Current: Consortium of 165 Universities 19

20 DOE-funded Consortium A Nationwide Consortium of Universities to Revitalize Electric Power Engineering ($4,175,423) 79 Universities These 79 schools represented about 25% of all the graduates in electrical engineering in William P. Robbins

21 Nationwide Dissemination through ONR/NSF Funding Over 100 schools are using our course material 21

22 Agenda Today DOE Consortium Bill Robbins Pedagogy Ned Mohan Lunch Laboratories Poster Session / Reception 22

23 Agenda Tomorrow Importance of Reform in EES Graduate Curriculum Lunch Curriculum Advisory Board (Chair: Denny Branca) ECE Dept Heads/Deans (Chair: Dr. Emir Macari) Working Group Reports Open Discussion Dinner + Presentation by Kirk Dewey 23

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