Course content

This course contains a specialization project at 15 ECTS credits directed towards electrical utilities and power systems, development and use of equipment for energy conversion, materials for use in electrical components, overvoltage problems, condition assessment and diagnostical methods. The projects may include offshore and marine plants, transmission and distribution networks, installations in buildings, use of renewable energy resourses, electrical railway systems and propulsion of vehicles. With the choice of the projectwork every student will get a belonging to one of the following professinal groups at The Department of Electrical Power Engineering:
- Energy Conversion Group.
- Power System Group.
- Electrical Power Technology Group.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:
After completing the course, the student shall have:
- extensive knowledge in the problem within elctric power technology the project is dealing with.
- good knowledge in related topics.
- good knowledge about relevant scientific literature.

Skills:
After completing the course, the student shall be able to:
- utilize techniques, systems and tools necessary.
- carry out large independent projects including development of project plan with milestones and reporting of part results and progress.
- perform literature survey and survey of other sources of relevant information.
- give a short oral presentation of work and results.
- write a technical report according to standard setup.

General competence:
After completing the course, the student shall be able to:
- communicate specialist topics with specialists and general public.
- understand scientific methods.
- understand how to run practical projects.

Learning methods and activities

Independent project work with guidance. The project work and the results must be described in a project report. After submission of the report, the student must give an oral presentation of the project in front of employees and fellow students. The oral presentation does not affect the grade achieved for the project work.

Recommended previous knowledge

At the selection of a project work it is supposed that the student have a combination of courses that makes up a sufficient professional background to implement the project in a good manner.

Course materials

Will be announced at course start.

Credit reductions