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Interdisciplinary Education on Smart Grids: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities

Interdisciplinary Education on Smart Grids: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities. Visvakumar Aravinthan and Vinod Namboodiri Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Wichita State University. NSF-PEEC Workshop Washington DC July 26-27, 2014. What is the Issues?.

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Interdisciplinary Education on Smart Grids: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities

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  1. Interdisciplinary Education on Smart Grids: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities Visvakumar Aravinthan and Vinod Namboodiri Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Wichita State University NSF-PEEC Workshop Washington DC July 26-27, 2014

  2. What is the Issues? • In addition, issues related to education: • CS students lack circuit theory, EE fundamentals • EE students lack information/data flow ideas • Differences in Math: Discrete versus Continuous

  3. What are the issues? • Future Grid Interdependencies • Cyber Power Networks • Future engineers require system level knowledge • How to develop solutions with practical value

  4. Our Classes • Introductory • Section 1: Introduction • Restructured power systems • Power system enhancement • Applications that require grid advancement • Section 2: Measurement and Communication • Measurement Technologies • Communication requirements for smart grids • Standardization • Section 3: Performance Analysis Tools • Changes to load flow studies • Congestion and congestion management • Power system reliability • Section 4: Resource Management • Demand response • Sustainable renewable energy resources • Impact of electric vehicles to the grid • Environmental impacts • Section 5: Power System Automation • Bulk power system automation • Distribution system automation • End user level of smart grid • Advanced • Section 1: Power Systems • Power system transient and stability • State estimation theory • Signal processing in power systems • Section 2: Computer Networking • Hybrid commutation system for smart grids • Advanced metering infrastructure • Information security and privacy • Network protocol development • Performance evaluation • Section 3: Environmental and Economic Issues • Environmental impacts • Power system economics • Economics of alternative fuels • Section 4: Control Theory • Decentralized / distributed control • Multi-objective optimization • Reliable control • Section 5: Research

  5. Lessons Learned • How can we co-teach? • Engineers • power system • Computer • Computer scientists • V. Namboodiri, V. Aravinthan, S. Joseph, E. Sawan, and W. Jewell, “Five heads are better than one: An interdisciplinary graduate course on smart grids: Lessons, challenges, and opportunities,” Power and Energy Magazine, IEEE, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 44 –50, January 2013. • V. Namboodiri and V. Aravinthan, “On the design of a graduate-level cross-disciplinary course on smart grids,” in Collaborative Smart Grid Education Panel Session: Proceedings of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, IEEE PES GM, July 2012.

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