Plans for Online Master s Courses/Degree in Power, Based on CUSP Curriculum

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1 Plans for Online Master s Courses/Degree in Power, Based on CUSP Curriculum Ned Mohan, UMN Joint JST-NSF-DFG Workshop Honolulu, Hawaii - January 11,

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4 Courses for Undergraduates/Graduates Power Electronics Core Courses Electric Drives Complementary Course Power Systems 4

5 Content of Each Course: 1. Video clips for each lecture 2. Textbook 3. In-class discussion problems 4.Labs 5.Homework Problems 5

6 Flipped-Classroom Pedagogy Procedure: Pre-class: watch a 15-minute module and answer a brief online concept quiz (5%) During-class: discuss and solve realworld, design-oriented problems in small groups; Clickers (15%) Post-class: homework problems on individual basis (15%) 6

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10 CUSP (Consortium of Universities for Sustainable Power) Content is totally free to download 171 U.S. Universities have become members

11 Graduate Courses (developed through ONR, NSF and other Grants) Completed and uploaded to CUSP 1. Power Electronics + Software Lab 2. Electric Drives 3. Power Systems + Software Lab 4. Wind Energy Essentials 5. Electricity Markets 6. Electric Machine Design To be completed and uploaded by May 2014 to CUSP 7. Electric Machines and Drives: Modeling and Control 8. Power Generation, Operation and Control 9. Advanced Power Electronics I 10. Advanced Power Electronics II 11. Advanced Power Systems I 12. Advanced Power Systems II 13. Power System Protection + Software Lab

12 Collaborative Graduate Courses on Power Systems 1. Transmission Lines and Cables: AC versus DC Ram Adapa (EPRI) 2. Switching Transients and Lightning Protection, Insulation Coordination MOV Surge Arresters Dharshana Muthumuni (HVDC Research Centre) 3. Transient Stability; Blackouts Tom Overbye (University of Illinois) 4. Voltage Stability Udaya Annakkage (University of Manitoba) 5. PMUs in Power Systems Virgilio Centeno (VPI) 6. Power System Planning, Managing Risk Hyde Merrill (Merrill Energy, LLC) 7. Power System Dynamics, small-signal stability, PSS Udaya Annakkage (U of Manitoba) 8. Power Quality, Flicker, sags and swells Surya Santoso (UT Austin, TX) 9. Reliability Chanan Singh (TAMU) 10.Demand Response; Load Management Clark Gellings (EPRI) 11.Smart Grid; Synchrophasors; EMS Control Centers Jay Giri (Alstom) 12.FACTS Eric John (ABB) 13.Weather and Variable Generation Implications for Power System Operations (Mark Ahlstrom)

13 Collaborative Graduate Courses on Power Electronics 1. Resonant Converters Ned Mohan (University of Minnesota) 2. Full-bridge DC-DC Converters and Soft-Switching and Hariharan Krishnaswami (UT- San Antonio) 3. Dual Active Bridge Amit Jain (Intel) 4. Multi-Level Converters Prasad Enjeti (TAMU) 5. Matrix Converters - Kaushik Basu (Dyna Power) 6. Front-End Rectifiers Kaushik Basu (Dyna Power) 7. Power Semiconductor Device Physics Bill Robbins (U of Minnesota) 8. Energy-Efficient Lighting: CFLs, LEDs, IGBTs Eric Persson (IRF) 9. Wide Bandgap Devices Anant Agrawal (CREE now at DOE-EERE) 10. Applications in Automotive Systems Kaushik Rajashekara (UT-Dallas) 11. Photovoltaic Interface Converters Robert Balog (TAMU) 12. Magnetic Design Bill Robbins (University of Minnesota) 13. Thermal Design Bill Robbins (University of Minnesota) 14. EMI and EMC Chris Henze (Analog Power Design Inc.)

14 Collaborative Graduate Course on Wind Energy Essentials 1. Wind Assessment and Forecasting (Mark Ahlstrom - CEO WindLogics, Inc.) 2. Wind Energy Systems An Industrial Perspective (Madhav Manjrekar UNCC) 3. Wind farm project development (Kate O'Hair- Director of Development for enxco, Midwest Office Minneapolis) 4. Foundation Design (Jennifer Entwistle- Senior Structural Engineer, Barr Eng.) 5. Electrical Engineering Principles for Wind Energy Systems (Ned Mohan, UMN) 6. Introduction to present day wind energy scenario (Steven W. Saylors- P.E.Senior Specialist, Electrical Engineering, Regional Support Services) 7. Wind Turbine Controls (Mihailo Jovanovic - ECE, Peter Seiler AEM UMN) 8. Materials and Structural Reliability (Sue Mantell - ME, Henryk Stolarski CE, UMN) 9. Blade Aerodynamics and Acoustics (Roger Arndt CE. University of Minnesota) 10.Environmental Considerations: Radar Interference (Mos Kaveh Associate Dean, College of Science and Engineering, UMN) 11.Power systems and protection for wind systems (Pratap Mysore- National Senior Relay and Protection Engineer, HDR) 12.Grid Integration (Matt Schuerger, Energy Systems Consulting Services)

15 Textbooks underlying these courses: - Translated into 7 Languages

16 Labs Developed 16 Automotive-Video

17 Proposed Additional Graduate Courses To be completed in 2-3 Years and uploaded to CUSP 1. Synchrophasors, wide area protection 2. HVDC Transmission Systems 3. Solar Electric Systems, Batteries, Fuel Cells, Flywheelbased Storage 4. Power Electronics in Power Systems 5. Energy, Environmental Policy, Regulatory Issues 6. Finite Element Analysis for Designing Electrical Apparatus 7. May be others.

18 Quality Education Proposal for Online Education First-rate content developed by experts (3 NAE members, over 10 IEEE Fellows) from academia and industry Unlike MOOCs: Limited class sizes (75 or so) Rigorous: Quizzes, HW, class projects, Proctored Exams Highly Affordable! 18

19 Rationale for Offering Online Courses and a Terminal Master s Degree 1.Educated Workforce 2.Make a large selection of courses available to students nationwide 3.Keep certain power-related courses, critical to national infrastructure, from disappearing 19

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21 Link for the next workshop: Grateful to NSF Grant to continue in

22 A Nationwide Consortium of Universities to Revitalize Electric Power Engineering ~ 80 Universities These schools represent about 25% of all the graduates in electrical engineering in in the U.S. William P. Robbins 22

23 Synergy between Teaching and Research - At present, 12 PhD Students Multi-Port Converter with Integrated Magnetics inverter PV 1 PV 2 48V 48V port 1 uni port 2 uni port inverter ac outlet 240V bi 3 port 4 bi Battery 23

24 ALOHA! Source: 24