Electrical Power Engineering Fundamentals Course Overview
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Electrical Engineering
Instruction in: English
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 200
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
Prerequisites: All first-year subjects. Among them, Calculus I, Calculus II, Lineal Algebra and Physics II are of utmost importance.
DESCRIPTION
Introduction to the Electric Power Engineering Ideal- and real elements of circuits: resistance, inductance, capacitance, coupled inductances, voltage- and current sources. Kirchhoff laws. Grouping of elements. Voltage and current divider. Mesh and nodal analysis of linear circuits Superposition principle. Thevenin's and Norton's theorems. Symbolic computation by means of complex phasors. Analysis of a.c. circuits Balanced three-phase circuits Fundamentals of electric power systems Introduction to transient circuits. Basic concepts of electrical machines.