Master of Engineering

Electric Power Engineering

Requirements

  1. All relevant requirements and regulations of the University and the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture for the Masters degree shall apply to the program.
  1. In order to be eligible for admission to the program, a student must have a degree of Bachelor of Engineering: major, Electrical Engineering, from AUB, or its equivalent. Electrical Engineering graduates of other universities, or in other majors, may be admitted to the program subject to making up for any deficiencies in their undergraduate studies.

Structure

The program comprises a total of 30 credit hours distributed as follows:
  1. A mandatory core of two courses (6 credit hours), one in the area of electric machinery (EE 710E) and the other in the area of electrical power systems (EE 740E). These courses are outlined below.
  1. Three technical elective courses (9 credit hours) in electric power engineering (course sequences EE 71xE - EE 78xE). Courses in these sequences are described below.
  1. One elective course (3 credit hours) in the management and environmental areas (course sequence EE 79xE in the program and courses listed under the Electrical Engineering Sequence in the Engineering Management program). Courses in the sequence EE 79xE are described under ëElectivesí, below.
  1. Two elective courses (6 credit hours) in areas related to electric power engineering, such as computer science, control systems, electronics, mechanical engineering, mathematics, economics, and management. These courses may be taken in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture or in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as appropriate.
  1. Seminar Course: EE 700 Seminar (No credit).
  1. A thesis based on independent research: EE 799 Thesis (6 credit hours).
Course Descriptions

Core Courses

EE 710E Advanced Electric Machinery.
 3 cr.; annually. Electromotive forces in ac machine windings, inductive and leakage reactances, d-q axis theory. Energy losses and efficiency of electric machines, design approaches. Superconducting ac and dc machines. Numerical methods for machine analysis, concept of finite element method, computation of electromagnetic fields in electric machines. R. Chedid.
EE 740E Computer Analysis of Power Systems.
 3 cr.; annually. Large scale power systems, power system matrices and programming considerations. Advanced power flow studies, voltage and reactive flow control. Fault analysis, transient analysis and power system stability. S. Karaki.

Elective Courses

EE 711E Computer Aided Design of Electromagnetic Devices.
3 cr.; alternate years. Maxwell's equations. Theory of finite element method, energy functional and shape function. Boundary conditions. Computation of global machine parameters by finite elements, iterative procedure. Other numerical methods. Applications. R. Chedid.
EE 712E Magnets and Permanent Magnet Machines.
 3 cr. Units and characteristics of magnetic materials, stability and losses, demagnetization. High energy magnets, state-of-the art. Types and topologies of permanent magnet (PM) machines, analysis of square-wave and sine-wave brushless dc drives, non-linear modelling, hybrid PM stepper motors. Computer aided analysis of PM machines. Faculty Member.
EE 721E Power Plant Technology.
 3 cr. Prime movers survey, analysis of energy transfer, control and protective systems, prime mover high speed dynamics, torsional vibration, coupling of prime movers and generators. Generator types, excitation systems, insulation, cooling, mechanical construction. Control systems, substations, test methods. Transient effects. Economics. Faculty Member.
EE 722E Transmission and Distribution Systems.
3 cr. State-of-the art in electric transmission systems: ultra high voltage ac transmission, h.v. dc. transmission, cable systems, interconnected system. Mechanical aspects, corona and audible noise. Substation design. Rural and urban distribution systems, street lighting. Faculty Member.
EE 723E Surge Phenomena and Insulation Coordination.
3 cr. Flashovers and impulse insulation strength of air, oil and SF6. Causes of overvoltages. Surge generators. Basic insulation levels, and overvoltage protection devices: principle of operation, construction, selection and location in the system, coordination of insulation levels with other system equipment. Faculty Members.
EE 724E Switchgear Technology.
 3 cr. Arc phenomena in circuit breakers, networks switching conditions. Main types of circuit breakers, isolating and load switches, autoreclosure, electromechanical and solid state relays: principle of operation, basic construction, characteristics, testing. Computer aided application of relays. Faculty Members.
EE 741E Power System Planning.
 3 cr.; alternate years. Energy and peak load forecasts, weather-sensitive forecasts, generation reliability, load duration curves, loss-of-load expectation, capacity reserve evaluation, generation and transmission expansion, power flow analysis, reliability of bulk supply, cost-benefit analysis. S. Karaki.
EE 742E Electric Power System Operation and Control.
 3 cr. Short-term load forecasting, generation unit commitment, economic load dispatch, loss formula coefficients, nonlinear programming, optimal power flow, security assessment, security dispatch, spinning reserve evaluation, automatic generation control, reactive power and voltage control, state estimation. S. Karaki.
EE 743E Power System Transients and Dynamics.
 3 cr. Synchronous machine models, nonlinear and linear multi-machine models. Excitation systems and turbine governor dynamics. Practical transient stability studies. Direct Liapunov's and pattern recognition methods for stability analysis. Power system stabilizers. Faculty Member.
EE 784 Renewable Energy Systems.
3 cr.; alternate years. Energy resources, wind, water, biomass, and solar. Scientific principles. Design and control aspects. R. Chedid.
EE 791E Management and Control Systems in the Power Industry.
 3 cr. Energy balance, power reserves, management and control of power plants and networks; structure, hardware and software components of management and control systems. Long and short term optimization of power systems. M. Yehia.
EE 792 Environmental Aspects of Energy Systems.
 3 cr.; alternate years. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor. World energy resources. Physical problems of the environment. Motor vehicles emissions and noise pollution. Pollution control systems in the power industry. Environmental impact in the power assessment. F. Chaaban.
EE 797 Special Topics.
 
EE 798 Special Project.
 Assigned project, of not more than 3 credit hours, supervised by a Faculty member.
Computer and Communication Engineering | Electrical Power Engineering | Electronic Devices and Systems
Research & Projects
Electrical & Computer Engineering
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