ECE 476 Power System Analysis Fall 2014

TR 9:30-10:50AM, 1015 ECEB

Instructor: Alejandro D. Domnguez Garca, aledan@ILLINOIS.EDU, (217) 333-3953.
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00 to 12:00AM, 4044 ECEB.
TA: Jiangmeng Zhang, jzhang67@ILLINOIS.EDU.
Office Hours: Wednesday, 8:00 to 10:00AM, 4034 ECEB.
Course Text: Glover, Sarma & Overbye, Power Systems Analysis and Design, Fifth Edition, Thomson, 2012.
Course Syllabus
Topics
Introduction, review of phasors and three phase power
Transmission-line parameter computation and transmission-line modeling
Transformer, generator, and load modeling
Power flow analysis
Generation control, economic dispatch and restructuring
Transient stability
Short circuit analysis, including symmetrical components
System protection
Exams
Final review

Approx. # of hours
3
5
3
9
6
4
6
3
3
1.5

Evaluation:
Two in-class exams (25% each) 50%
Final exam 35%
In-class quiz 15%
+/ grading will be used for the final course grade
Homework and in-class quizzes: Weekly homework allows students to practice the quiz problems.
Homework is not graded, but there will be an in-class short quiz most Tuesdays consisting of problems
taken word for word from the homework problems. The lowest quiz grade will be dropped.
In-class Exams (tentative): Thursday, October 2; Thursday, November 13.
Final Exam: Thursday, December 18, 8:00-11:00 AM.
All exams are closed-booked, closed notes. Calculators are allowed.
Formula Sheets. You may bring in one notesheet (8.5 by 11 both sides OK) for the first exam. Two
for the second. Three for the final.
Make-up Exams. They may be administered orally at the Professors discretion.