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The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Wollongong has recently set up a WWW public domain clearinghouse (Home Page); supporting and promoting the use of computers in engineering education in general and electric power education in particular. This paper provides a brief introduction to the Home Page and its five major nodes (sub-pages). It also provides some background information about the World Wide Web and its potential usage for engineering education.
It has been long accepted that practical laboratory work is an essential component of engineering based courses. There is an increase in student number and a decrease in resource allocation making it increasingly more difficult to provide adequate level of practical laboratory work. Alternative methods based on computer aided laboratory experiment, computer simulation and the use of new educational delivery tools are needed to supplement practical work. This paper explains strategies that have been implemented for a large, second year power laboratory course at University of Wollongong. The setup uses a variety of media for teaching and assessment purposes. This paper also briefly highlights issues related to the resource coordination. The development project is heading toward its completion by introducing a new information retrieval environment to enable students to use a range of teaching laboratory media in an integrated and coherent environment.
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The objectives of this contribution to the conference is to look at the technical coorperation between industry and tertiary institutions in Germany. The fact is that engineering industry in the FR Germany is still the highest export of machines and systems designed and manufactured in Germany. One of the reasons may be found in the successful collaboration of German industry with universities and research institutes. In this paper the experiences in relation to linkage between engineering education and industry will be described and the university and engineering course structure will also be briefly explained.
The reasons for the adoption of the CD-ROM format for a tutorial on the subject of electro-mechanical conversion are discussed. The structure of the CD-ROM is outlined and the method used for its production described. Some examples of views from the tutorial are given. The question to be raised in student assessment of the material are identified and presented.
This Paper desribes a new form of teaching introduced by the authors in one of postgraduate lectures offered by Faculty of Engineering at Monash University. A group of eleven postgraduate students undertool this lecture in 1995. Most of them are employed on engineers' positions in industry, consulting companies and government agencies. The age range of the group was amon 28 and 53 years.
Among the newly established Australian universities and CAE's who have amalgamated with older universities, there is a very strong pressure to perform in the area of research. This embraces both research per se, gaining research grants, increasing postgraduate populations and the volume of publications. In order to ascertain which mechanisms underpin successful university - industry research collaboration, the author has embarked on a benchmarking exercise with the EPFL* in Lausanne, Switzerland. A crucial phase in the exercise consisted in identifying those processes and factors that have led to the outstanding success of EPFL in its collaboration in research with industry. These processes and factors were found to be associated with several areas such as the nature of contacts between EPFL and Industry, EPFL know-how and experience in research, industry's own research assets and finally the collaboration projects themselves. In Australia, some research projects are very worthy exercises but there are simply not enough of them and many staff in the tertiary education sector seem to have difficulties in engaging in meaningful dialogue and in research activities with industry. The aim of the current application of benchmarking methods and results in the author's own unit at Caulfield in Victoria is to develop and design a reliable and valuable model of industry-university collaboration in research. It is hoped the model will eventually be used by other universities, both in Australia and in the neighbouring area. * EPFL: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
This paper deals with two specific examples of computer-assisted learning in electrical engineering at the University of South Australia: one relating to the teaching of circuit theory, the other to that of electrical machines, both at an introductory level. A modular approach comprising a generic teaching module enriched with selected tutorials, a self-evaluation module to provide student feedback, and a formal assessment module has been adopted in the implementation.
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This paper reports development of the laboratory model of a microcomputer controlled Flexible AC Transmission System Controller. The controller is used to demonstrate the power flow control based on the phase angle regulation by means of the FACTS concept. It consists of a synchronized inverter with variable voltage and variable phase shift, a measuring system for data acquisition and a microcomputer for system monitoring and control.
Electrical engineering components, such as inductors, are generally taught using quantitative methods. Analogies have been shown to facilitate a deeper understanding and long term retention of abstract concepts. By exercising a set of analogies, students can relate familiar ideas and concepts to those that are abstract to form a representational model of the behaviours of inductors. A multimedia microworld using a bicycle model to demonstrate the underlying concepts of inductors has been devised. Such a program will provide students, who need additional help, a qualitative basis for understanding their quantitative models.
In this paper, the authors describe an open power system simulator(PSS) implemented by E. E. Department of Tsinghua University including its characteristics, requirement and key technologies. It emphasizes UNIX real time emulating and PANDA real time data base technique. In the end, several examples of open PSS are presented with their configurations and simulation scales.
This paper briefly explores some issues associated with the use of computer-assisted learning/teaching methods in power systems education. Power students' perception regarding computer literacy and power educators' general attitude regarding a computer-oriented approach to power systems educ- ation will be dealt with in some detail. A computer simulation-based teaching/learning method adopted for a final year elective and a postgraduate course in "Power Systems Analysis" at Wollongong Uni- versity will then be discussed. Relevant aspects of the course development such as setting the course objectives and the requirement of supporting teach- ing material, assignments and small analysis/design projects are highlighted. It will be shown that a strong commitment to computer simulation in teaching enhances students' learning, instills the concepts of self-study and team effort, and has a potential to boost the student enrolment in power electives.
A laboratory module microcomputer-based static var compensator (SVC) is designed and installed in the power system simulator of the National Taiwan Institute of Technology (NTIT) for electric power education. The structure of SVC is thyristor controlled reactors with fixed capacitors (TCR-FC). An industrial available VME-bus microcomputer is used for synthesizing the controller of SVC. The developed control schemes of SVC include feedback and feedforward control that can be arbitrarily changed for different type of education need. Finally, two suggested experiments are given to show the compensation effects of SVC in a distribution system.
This paper describes a PC-based software package for building one-line diagrams in a power system control centre. The package provides two approaches for building one-line diagrams, one of which is the automatic approach, the other being the manual using the graphic user interface editor. The object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigm has been adopted for this Microsoft Windows application development. The program compiler used is C~ with its built-in object window library. The advantages of C++ as an OOP language are discussed and attention is drawn to the fact that C++ provides a unified programming environment for program reusability and easy maintenance, and strong graphic capabilities. Besides, the dynamic linkages of the load flow results to the one-line display of the GUI are also presented.
This paper describes a continuing education initiative in electric power engineering undertaken by the Electricity Supply Association of Australia and a number of Australian Universities. The aim of the initieative is to provide the industry with opportunities to develop engineering skills and competencies of their staff to meet the demands imposed by the modern power engineering industry environment. The program, which can lead to a postgraduate diploma is described and some specific course examples offered by the University of New South Wales as part of the program are described.
This paper presents a new generalised implementation of the well known transient T induction motor model which is based on two-axis theory, and implemented digitally using the SIMULINK software package. The model uses dynamically adjustable parameters, and may be operated in the stationary, synchronous, or rotor reference frames, with either current or voltage supply. All variables are available both during and after a simulation, and all may be viewed in two- or three-axis form; simultaneously if desired. Also, the model can be easily integrated into larger system simulations - including combined mechanical/electrical systems.
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