Electrical Energy Systems

This course has a particular focus on the integration of renewable generation into electricity transmission and distribution networks and on preparing students for a new era of truly ‘smart’ grids, and is designed to meet the urgent need for specialists in advanced electrical energy systems.

This course meets an urgent need for specialists in advanced electrical energy systems that are needed to design and build secure, reliable, low-carbon and affordable energy systems in developed and developing countries around the world. The program maintains a particular focus on the integration of renewable generation in to electricity transmission and distribution networks and will prepare you for a new era of truly ‘smart’ grids.

Key facts

More specifically, the program aims to equip you with:

• Ademonstrable mastery of a broad spectrum of advanced engineering principles to real-life technological, financial, regulatory, managerial and ethical problems encountered in the electrical Energy and Power profession, and the potential to be key professional players in the wider industry, the professions, and public service.
• Asystematic understanding of knowledge, and a critical awareness of current problems and new insights which are at the forefront of Electrical Energy Systems .
• Acomprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to their own research or advanced scholarship.
• Originality in application of knowledge, together with a practical understanding of how established techniques of research and enquiry are used to create and interpret knowledge in the area of Electrical Energy Systems.

Accreditations

• Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

Courses include:

• Advanced Power Electronics and Drives

• Alternative Energy Systems

• Magnetic Devices: Transducers, Sensors and Actuators

• Distributed Generation, System Design and Regulation

• Power Systems Analysis