Approved by: Graduate Council
Implementation Date: Summer 2016
Note: Deletions are strikethroughs. Insertions are underlined.
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ENER 6120 - Energy Generation and Conversion
Credit Hours: (3)
Overview of energy use. Fossil fuel resources and energy conversion. Solar energy principles, solar collector, photovoltaic cells and applications. Wind energy and wind turbines. Nuclear energy principles, nuclear reactors and power generation. Geothermal and Hydraulic energy conversion. Hydrogen energy, storage, and transportation. Overview of fuel cell, fuel cell types, and application.
Prerequisite(s): ETGR 3171.
ENER 6135 - Energy Transmission and Distribution
Credit Hours: (3)
Power transmission and distribution network architectures. Transmission line models, parameters, and equivalent circuits. Symmetrical components. Power flow studies. Symmetrical and unsymmetrical faults. Transient operation and power system protection. Power system stability. Distribution optimization.
Prerequisite(s): ETGR 3171.
ENER 6150 - System Dynamics
Credit Hours: (3)
Energy-based modeling of dynamic mechanical, electrical, thermal, and fluid systems to formulate linear state equations, including system stability, time domain response, and frequency domain techniques.
Pre- or Corequisite(s): ETGR 5272. ETGR 3171 or equivalent.
ENER 6170 - Applied Mechatronics
Credit Hours: (3)
Analog electronic design for purposes of controlling electromechanical systems, including electromechanical sensors and actuators, analog electronic design of filters, state-space and classical controllers, and transistor-based servoamplifiers and high voltage amplifiers. Significant laboratory component with design and fabrication of circuits to control electromechanical systems. Implementation of digital controllers.
Prerequisite(s): ENER 6150. ETGR 3171 or equivalent.
ENER 6220 - High Voltage Technology
Credit Hours: (3)
Covers concepts of high voltage generation, measurements, protection and safety. Study of high electric fields theory, breakdown mechanisms in gases, liquids, and solid dielectrics. The high voltage insulation, including insulation coordination, is also discussed. Instruction on high voltage applications and safety.
ENER 6235 - Advanced Transmission Modern Electric Power Grids
Credit Hours: (3)
Instruction on network steady-state analysis; faults; protection systems; switching equipment; voltage and power static control; surge voltages and protection, transient operation and stability, “smart grid” enabling technologies.
Prerequisite(s): ENER 6135.