This graduate certificate program is designed to provide specialized graduate level education in the area of Electric Machines and Drives.

Curriculum

The following two electric power systems courses must be taken.

• EE 305: Electric Drive Systems
• EE 402: Advanced Theory of Electric Machines

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

• EE 304: Power Quality
• EE 331: Digital Control
• EE 353: Power Electronics
• EE371: Grounding and Shielding
• EE401: Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
• EE406: Power System Stability
• EE431: Linear Control Systems

Other courses approved by the electric machines and drives 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 305: Electric Drive Systems
  Course content is roughly 1/3 power electronics, 1/3 applied control and 1/3 electric machinery and focuses on analysis, simulation, and control design of electric drive based speed, torque, and position control systems. Prerequisites: El Eng 205 and El Eng 231.
• EE 331: Digital Control
  Analysis and design of digital control systems. Review of ztransforms; root locus and frequency response methods; state space analysis and design techniques; controllability, observability and estimation. Examination of digital control algorithms. Prerequisites: El Eng 231, 267.
• EE 353: Power Electronics
  Power semiconductor devices in switching mode converter and control circuits, phase-controlled rectifiers, synchronous inverters, AC regulators, cyclo-converters; self commutated inverters; and frequency changers; thermal analysis and protection. Applications to industry and HVDC. Prerequisite: El Eng 253.
• EE 371: Grounding and Shielding
  Fundamental principles involved in typical grounding and shielding problems, objectives and techniques for grounding and shielding to reduce misconceptions and a more systematic approach to replace "trial and error" methods, interference mechanisms and shielding techniques. Prerequisites: El Eng 265 and 271.
• EE 401: Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
  This course provides a comprehensive knowledge of electric and hybrid electric vehicles including series, parallel, and compound structures. The emphasis is on both fundamentals and design methodologies of electric loads and advanced distribution system architectures. Vehicle dynamics, energy storage systems, dc-dc converters, fuel cells, and advanced motor drives are also covered.
• EE 402: Advanced Theory of Electric Machines
  Energy conversion, reference frame theory, transient and dynamic modeling of ac machines, simulation of ac machines, parameter identification, model-order reduction, advanced topics depending on semester taught. Prerequisite: El Eng 205
• 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 431: Linear Control Systems
  Review of linear algebra, state variable formulations, solutions of state equations; controllability of 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 Machines and Drives Program is open to all persons holding a bachelor's degree in any field of engineering from an ABET-accredited undergraduate program and having a minimum of 24 months of post bachelor'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 bachelor'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 master's degree program in electrical engineering if they apply. The certificate courses taken by students admitted to the master's degree 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.