Education
Undergraduate Electric Power Engineering Concentration
- BS degree in EE with Electric Power Engineering Concentration – requires 4 power electives (out of 10 BS power specific courses)
- 33% of all graduating EE’s are completing the EPE Concentration
- Strong enrollments – e.g., avg. of 30 students in ECE-1771 each fall term
- National IEEE PES scholarships
- Award winning undergraduate research projects and papers
- Industry participation – senior design projects, co-op assignments, internships
- 100% job placement – in the power/energy sector or graduate school
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Undergraduate Courses
Required Course:
- ECE 1701 Fundamentals of Power Engineering (Required for all EE Students)
Three additional elective to be selected from the following options:
- ECE 1673 Linear Control Systems (Required for all EE Students)
- ECE 1710 Electric Distribution Engineering and Smart Grids (Summer)
- ECE 1750 Power Electronics Conversion Theory (Spring)
- ECE 1771 Electric Machines (Fall)
- ECE 1773 Power Generation, Operation, & Control (Spring)
- ECE 1774 / 2774 Advanced Power Systems Analysis (Spring)
- ECE 1775 Power Quality with Laboratory (Spring)
- ECE 1776 / 2776 Microgrid Concepts and Distributed Generation Technologies
- ENGR 1281 Clean Energy Grid Engineering: Scandinavia (Int’l – Summer)
Yes, these courses continuously run all year. Approximately 1/3 of all EE students obtain the power concentration in the department.
Graduate Electric Power Engineering Program
- M.S. and Ph.D. degrees offered with EPE Concentration
- Student demographics are approximately 50%-50% full-time students and part-time industry students – great classroom environment!
- New course developments each year – renewable energy, power electronics, smart grids, etc.; with plans for more in future terms --- total of 17 MS/PhD level courses
- Strong enrollments – averaging 20 students in many courses
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Graduate Courses
Power Engineering Focused Courses:
- MSE 2033 Power Magnetic Devices
- ECE 2250 Fundamentals of Power Electronics
- ECE 2774 Advanced Power System Analysis
- ECE 2775 Advanced Machines and Drives
- ECE 2776 Microgrid Concepts and Distributed Generation Technologies
- ECE 2777 Power System Transients (Mitsubishi Electric Adjunct)
- ECE 2778 Advanced Power Electronics (FACTS & HVDC Systems)
- ECE 2780 Renewable & Alternative Energy Systems
- ECE 2781 Smart Grid Technologies and Applications
- ECE 2795 Electrical Distribution System Engineering & Analysis II
- ECE 2795 Protective Relaying and Substation Automation
- ECE 3776 Power System Stability
- ECE 3777 Power Electronics Conversion II
- ECE 3783 Modern Control and Optimization for Energy & Complex Engineering Systems
- ECE 3779 High Frequency Power Electronics
- ECE 3795 Cyber-Physical Power Systems
In planning/development stages:
- ECE 2795 Software Based Finite Element Analysis for Electrical Engineers (Ansys Adjunct)
- ECE 3XXX: Advanced Modelling and Control of Power Electronic Systems
- ECE 2XXX: Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Course
- ECE 2XXX: Electric Vehicle Machine Design
- MSE 2033 Power Magnetic Devices
