Providing Hands-on Experience in Electric Power Engineering Education
Date: July 27, 2023
Location: Online
This online workshop demonstrated hands-on laboratories for electric-power education at undergraduate and graduate levels. Faculty presented laboratory platforms for advanced power electronics, electric drives and control, power systems using PSS®E and Python, climate-crisis solutions, and sustainable electricity, followed by discussion of community- and technical-college certificate pathways.
Speakers
Objectives
Disseminate information about University of Minnesota electric-power laboratories by demonstrating them in operation and describing experiments for undergraduate and graduate courses.
- Show laboratories for power electronics, electric drives and their control, power systems, pipeline courses, and advanced power electronics.
- Explain how the laboratories can support regular coursework and student projects.
- Extend hands-on learning to high schools and technical or community colleges through pipeline courses and an Electric Power Engineering certificate pathway.
Agenda
Thursday, July 27, 2023
All times are in CDT.
- 8:00 am — Welcome and the Relevance of Hands-on Education
- Prof. Randy Victora — Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
- Aranya Chakrabortty — Program Director, National Science Foundation
- CAPT Lynn J. Petersen, USN (Ret) — Program Officer, Office of Naval Research
- 8:45 am — University of Minnesota Team: Brief Overview of the Laboratories
- 9:00 am — Discussion of Laboratories for Undergraduate and Graduate Courses
- Power electronics
- Electric drives and their control
- Power systems
- Advanced power electronics laboratory under development
- 10:45 am — Demonstration of Pipeline-Course Laboratories for High Schools and Technical or Community Colleges
- 11:00 am — Workforce Development Through Technical and Community Colleges Offering a Certificate in Electric Power Engineering
- 12:00 pm — Adjourn
Recordings
1 Welcome and the Relevance of Hands-on Education
2 University of Minnesota Laboratories Overview — Part 1
3 University of Minnesota Laboratories Overview — Part 2
4 University of Minnesota Laboratories Overview — Part 3
5 Advanced Power Electronics Laboratory
6 Electric Drives and their Control Laboratory — Part 1
7 Electric Drives and their Control Laboratory — Part 2
8 Power Systems Laboratory using PSS®E and Python
9 Climate Crisis and Sustainable Electricity Laboratories
10 Electric Power Engineering Workforce Development