Power Systems Graduate Certificate Course Descriptions
SMIS 576. Project Management
Presents the specific concepts, techniques and tools for managing projects effectively. The role of the project manager as team leader is examined together with important techniques for controlling cost, schedules and performance parameters. Lectures, case studies and business games are combined to develop skills needed by project managers in today’s environment.
SECE A. Introduction to Power Systems
This course introduces the fundamentals of Electric Power Systems Engineering. Topics include: review of AC circuit analysis, transmission line parameter calculation, symmetrical component analysis, transformer and load modeling, symmetrical and unsymmetrical fault analysis, power flow, and power systems stability. Prerequisites: Knowledge of circuit analysis, basic calculus and differential equations, and elementary matrix analysis, and basic computer programming.
SECE 559B. Fundamentals of Power Delivery
This course introduces aspects of power system design, construction, maintenance and support of distribution systems. Topics include: Equipment; transformers, regulators, switch gear: Harmonics; generation and mitigation, effects on equipment and instrumentation; Power Quality; sags, swells, surges, grounding: Voltage Regulation and Reactive Power Control: Power System Protection; relays. Prerequisites: Introduction to Power Systems Engineering.
SOIE 541. Operations Risk Management
Operations risk management deals with decision making under uncertainty. It is interdisciplinary, drawing upon management science, engineering economy and managerial decision making, along with material from cognitive psychology and sociology. Classic methods from risk assessment and risk evaluation are first covered and then applied, from the perspective of business process improvement, across a broad set of operations management problems. A course project is required to teach skills for integrating diverse sources of information/data (i.e., qualitative and quantitative, subjective and objective) so as to utilize all available evidence when modeling and evaluating risk. Projects are chosen by the students according to their interest and, in the past, have addressed topics in fire protection engineering, environmental management, and project and operations management. (An introductory understanding of probability and statistics is assumed.)
SECE 559C. Transients in Power Systems
This course introduces the student to the effects of electromagnetic transients in distribution systems. Topics include: Review of transient analysis, lightning and switching surges, mechanisms of transient generation, insulation coordination, grounding, surge protection devices, and shielding. Prerequisites: Introduction to Power Systems Engineering.
SOIE 598E. Engineering Economics
The intention of this course is to aid all engineering students in understanding economics and business constraints on engineering decision making. Topics may include but will not be limited to: evaluation of alternative; the six time-value-of-money factors; present worth, annual cash flow and rate-of-return analysis; incremental analysis; depreciation and income taxes; replacement analysis; inflation; handling probabilistic events; public economy; break-even and minimum cost points; and foreign exchange.
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