This graduate certificate program is designed to provide specialized graduate level education in the area of Electric Power Systems Engineering.

Curriculum
The following two electric power systems courses must be taken.

• EE 307: Power Systems Engineering
• EE 408: Computer Methods in Power System Analysis

A minimum of two of the following electric power systems courses must be taken.

• EE 304: Electric Power Quality
• EE 352: Photovoltaic Power Systems
• EE 404: Economic Operation of Power Systems
• EE 405: Power System Protection
• EE 406: Power System Stability
• EE 407: Surge Phenomena in Power Systems
• EE 431: Linear Control Systems

Other courses approved by the electric power systems faculty may be substituted for any of the above listed courses on a case-by-case basis. The Department's Assistant Chair for Graduate Affairs must approve the substitution prior to enrolling in the course.

Course Description

EE 304: Electric Power Quality
Definitions and standards of power quality, kinds of power quality problems; sources of sags and transient overvoltages; distribution principles of controlling harmonics, devices for filtering harmonics, time and frequency domain methods of analysis; power quality monitoring; power quality improvement methods. Prerequisite: El Eng 153.

EE 307: Power Systems Engineering
Network analysis applied to power systems; the load flow concept; economic operation of power systems; synchronous machine reactances and transient stability; symmetrical components and asymmetrical faults; protective relaying. Prerequisite: El Eng 207.

EE 352: Photovoltaic Power Systems
Physics and characteristics of photovoltaic (solar) cell technologies, electronic control of alternative energy sources, site selection, array design, energy storage methods, electrical code compliance, stand-alone systems, grid-intertie systems, legal and economic consideration.

EE 404: Economic Operation of Power Systems
Optimum economic loading of thermal plants determined by the method of Lagrange multipliers, derivation of the system loss matrix and its transformation to the most useful basis, practical evaluation of the matrix elements, extension of optimum loading criteria to include system losses, effect of hydro plants on system economics. Prerequisite: El Eng 307.

EE 405: Power System Protection
Protective relaying incorporating electromechanical, solid state and modern computer relaying methods for high voltage transmission systems. Pilot wire, power line carrier apparatus, bus protection, circuit breaker interruption characteristics, out of step relaying, reclosing, synchronizing, load and frequency relaying. Prerequisite: El Eng 303 and 307.

EE 406: Power System Stability
Synchronous machine theory and modelling; AC transmission; power system loads; excitation systems; control of active and reactive power; small signal stability; transient stability; voltage stability; mid-term and long term stability; subsynchronous oscillations; stability improvement. Prerequisite: El Eng 207 or similar course.

EE 407: Surge Phenomena in Power Systems
Study of transmission system insulation, distributed constant lines, terminations, multiple reflections, lighting performance, characteristics of sustained and switching overvoltages, surge voltages due to system faults, energizing and reclosing of circuit breakers. Methods of reducing overvoltages to acceptable levels. Prerequisite: El Eng 207.

EE 408: Computer Methods in Power System Analysis
Algorithms of power-network matrices, three-phase networks, short-circuit, load-flow and transient stability studies by computer methods. Prerequisite: El Eng 207 or similar course.

EE 431: Linear Control Systems
Review of linear algebra, state variable formulations, solutions of state equations; controllability and observability; multivariable systems, matrix fraction decompositions; design of state and output feedback controllers and observers; introduction to calculus of variations; linear quadratic regulators. Prerequisite: El Eng 231.

Admission Requirements
The Electric Power Systems Engineering Program is open to all persons holding a B.S. degree in any field of engineering from an ABET accredited undergraduate program and having a minimum of 24 months of post B.S. professional work experience that would normally require an engineering degree or a degree in a closely related technical field such as physics or mathematics. The minimum overall GPA in the B.S. degree program should be at least 2.5.

Once admitted to the program, the student must take four designated courses as given above. In order to receive a Graduate Certificate, the student must have an average graduate grade point average of 3.0 or better in the certificate courses taken.

Students admitted to the certificate program will have non-degree graduate status; however, if they complete the four-course sequence with a grade of B or better in each of the courses taken, they will be admitted to the M.S. program in electrical engineering if they apply. The certificate courses taken by students admitted to the M.S. program will count towards their master's degrees. Students who do not have all of the prerequisite courses necessary to take the courses in the certificate program will be allowed to take "bridge" courses at either the graduate or undergraduate level to prepare for the formal certificate courses.

Once admitted to the program, a student will be given three years to complete the program so long as he/she maintains a B average in the courses taken.

Contact
Distance & Continuing Education
Missouri University of Science and Technology
300 W 12th Street
216 University Center
Rolla, MO 65409-1560
Phone: 573-341-6222
Fax: 573-341-4992
Email: dce@mst.edu