Advanced Power Systems

Course No. ECE 09.402.02 and ECE 09.504.02

Spring 2007

Tentative Course Schedule

NOTE: Last Update was 16 April 2007

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Week (date)	Topic	Text Chapters	Information
Week 1 (Jan 22)	Course Introduction An Inconvenient Truth	1, 2	Lecture 1 Lecture 1 - GW Assignment 1
Week 2 (Jan 29)	Basic Electric & Magnetic Circuits Electric Power System Fundamentals Infrastructure and Today’s Industry	2, 3	Lecture 2 Assignment 2
Week 3 (Feb 5)	Electric Power System Fundamentals Infrastructure and Today’s Industry	3, 4	Lecture 3 Assignment 3
Week 4 (Feb 12)	Current Generation Technology Distributed Generation and Resource	3, 4	Lecture 4 Assignment 4
Week 5 (Feb 19)	PEM Fuel Cells *Guest Lecturer: Dr. Krishan Bhatia*	4	Lecture 5 Assignment 5
Week 6 (Feb 26)	FOCUS the NATION - VideoConference Dr. Eban Goodstein, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon & 9 NJ Universities		Lecture 6
Week 8 (Mar 5)	Eng. Economics of Adv Power Technologies	5	Lecture 7 Assignment 6
Week 9 (Mar 11-17)	Spring Break - NO CLASSES
Monday March 19	Wind Turbine Technology Midterm Examination (1-1/4 hour Exam) 6:15 PM – until Rowan Hall Auditorium	6	Lecture 8 Assignment 7
Week 10 (Mar 26)	The Solar Resources PV Fundamentals	7	Lecture 9 Assignment 8
Week 11 (Apr 2)	PV System Design - 1 12kV Feeder Tour - Glassboro	8	Lecture 10 Assignment 9
Week 12 (Apr 9)	PV System Design - 2 Lab #1 Field Trip #1 (Small Wind and PV)	9	Lecture 11 Assignment 10
Week 13 (Apr 16)	Advanced Power System Design Lab # 2	1-9	Lecture 12
Week 14 (Apr 23)	*All Final Project Reports Are Due* Project Presentations 1-4 Field Trip #2 - EIRC PV System		Field Trip Form #2
Week 15 (Apr 30 & May 4 )	Project Presentations 5-9 4 May : Field Trip #3 - ACUA Wind Turbines		Field Trip Form #3
Week 17 ( May 7)	Project Presentations 10-14 Last Day of Classes
	No Final Exam