3148 - Power Systems Engineering
Course Description
Improve your prospects of passing the professional engineering examination in Power Systems Engineering, for a P.Eng. licence inCanada. You will be guided by expert instructors in weekly online and interactive webinars and discussion board. You'll learn the theories and principles of power-system engineering and analysis. You'll study circuit analysis, transmission line parameter calculation, symmetrical component analysis, transformer and load modelling, power flow, fault analysis, power system protection and more. Build your knowledge and confidence through case studies, reviews of past exams, extensive problem-solving exercises, take-home assignments and networking with colleagues.
Financial assistance may be available to eligible Ontario residents through the Ontario Bridging Participant Assistance Program (OBPAP) provided by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU). Please email scs.learnerservices@utoronto.ca for details.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand how to operate and protect modern power systems.
- Construct modeling technics for power-system analysis.
- Use power-flow methods to compute system operating points.
- Identify sequence networks of power-system components for fault analysis.
- Understand the dynamic principle of power systems and generators.
Recommendations
You should have some knowledge of circuit analysis, basic calculus and differential equations, and elementary matrix analysis.