Courses Taught

EE 221: Introduction to Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering units, circuit elements, circuit laws, measurement principles, mesh and node equations, network theorems, energy storage elements, RC and RL circuits, unit step response, second order circuits, sinusoids and phasors and introduction to network theory.

EE 224: Electrical Circuits: Introduction to network analysis. Sinusoidal (AC) steady state, average and RMS values, polyphase systems, complex frequency, network frequency response, two port networks and transformers, Fourier methods and Laplace Transforms.

EE 101: Introduction to Electrical Power Devices and Systems: Fundamental principles of electric and magnetic properties. DC and AC circuits. Application to single and three-phase systems, motor control, circuit protection, safety.

EE 131: Introduction to Power Systems: Analysis of power system elements connected together as an integrated system for the transmission and distribution of electric power. Load flow, symmetrical components.

EE 231: Power Systems Analysis: Incidence and network matrices, Y-Bus, symmetrical and unsymmetrical faults, load-flow and economic dispatch, MW-frequency and MVAR-voltage control. The power system simulator will be used for demonstrations.

EE 515: Linear Control Systems: Basic concepts in the theory of linear control systems; state variable representation, solution of state equations, controllability, observability, stability, transfer function descriptions, design of controllers and observers.

EE 517: Optimal Control: Methods of direct synthesis and optimization of feedback systems; Wiener theory; Pontryagin's maximum principle, dynamic programming; adaptive feedback systems.

EE 533: Comp Applications to Power System Analysis: Steady state analysis by digital computers of large integrated electrical power systems. Bus admittance and Impedance matrices, load flow studies, economic dispatch and optimal power flow, steady state security analysis, fault studies.

EE 534: Power System Control and Stability: Review of stability theory, classical transient analysis, dynamical models of synchronous machines, power system stability under small and large perturbations, dynamic simulation of power systems.

EE 593: Robust H-infinity Control: Robust Control Design methods: H-infinity

EE 713: Large-Scale System Modeling and Control: Characterization of large-scale systems, model simplification through aggregation and perturbation methods, optimal and chained aggregation, balanced realization and cost component procedures; optimal model reduction; simplification effects; decentralized control; feasibility and design.

EE 731: Real-Time Control of Power Systems: Application of computers to modern control theory for reliable and economic real-time operation of integrated power systems.

EE 493O/Econ 591A: Power Systems Analysis and Economics: To introduce elements of power system analysis and economics under steady-state conditions.