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CUSP™: The Consortium of U’s for
Sustainable Power
ASEE – CIEC Savannah, Georgia February 5-7, 2014
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Ned Mohan, Douglas Ernie, Ron Fitch University of Minnesota
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Sustainability – wherever Electric Power is used Electricity Generation, Transmission and End-Use:
• Renewables/storage • Conservation
Transportation • Trains • Planes • Hybrids/EVs
Defense • Navy • Air Force • Army
Industrial Competitiveness • Automation/Robotics/Advanced Manufacturing
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Renewable Energy CPDD 434
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Case for Storage CPDD 434
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Sodium Sulfur Battery Storage to Enable Further Integration of Wind
(Xcel Energy Project Cost: 5 M$)
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Conservation Efficiency Improvement:
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WBG Revolution in Power Electronics: CPDD 434
History of Electric Energy Curriculum and Interest Nationwide
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• EE curriculum started with power engineering in the 1880’s
• Interest in power engineering declined after mid-1900’s Courses did not change Students were not excited Instructional capacity declined
• Power engineering is now seen as critical to growth and sustainability Requires rethinking the curriculum
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Our Approach
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• Fewer Courses • Carefully designed • Shared with colleagues across the
country • Received Grants from NSF • ONR grant no. N00014-06-1-0381
“Center for Reforming Undergraduate Education in Electric Energy Systems – A Critical Infrastructure for National security” 06/01/2006 - 09/30/2012.
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Grants Objective:
Develop A Comprehensive Electric Energy Education Curriculum
• Enable all universities to
- Provide a first-rate education and
- Graduate students in large numbers
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Example – Harnessing Wind Energy
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Only 3 Core Senior Electives
Core Courses
Power Electronics
Electric Drives
Power Systems
Core Courses
Power Electronics
Electric Drives
Power Systems
Complementary
Course
Undergraduate Curriculum -
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Power Electronics: - An Enabling Technology
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Power Systems:
Software-based Lab
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Electric Machines and Drives:
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Content of Each Course:
1. Video clips for each lecture
2. Textbook
3. In-class discussion problems
4.Labs
5.Homework Problems
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Labs Adopted at over 100 U.S. Universities
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DOE Consortium of 80 Universities to use State-of-the-Art Laboratories
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“These schools represented about 25% of all the graduates in electrical engineering in 2008.” – William P. Robbins
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• Content is totally free to download • 173 U.S. Universities have become members
www.cusp.umn.edu
CUSP™ (Consortium of Universities for Sustainable Power)
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Uniqueness of Our Approach
• Force Multiplier:
–Aimed at faculty to provide all the resources that are needed
– Teaching the Teachers!
• Archiving Institutional Knowledge:
–Reaching out to best experts in the world
• Evolving to keep them Current:
–Consortium of 173 Universities
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Flipped-Classroom Pedagogy
• Procedure: – Pre-class: watch a 15-minute
module and answer a brief online concept quiz (5%)
– During-class: discuss and solve real-world, design-oriented problems in small groups; Clickers (15%)
– Post-class: homework problems on individual basis (15%)
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Active Learning Classroom at UMN CPDD 434
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ONR grant no. N00014-11-1-0653 "Center for Developing and Disseminating a Graduate/Undergraduate Curriculum in Electric Energy Systems,” 6/1/2011-5/30/2014.
ONR Grant for Graduate Curriculum: CPDD 434
Electric Energy Courses
• Power Systems
• Power Electronics
• Electric Machines and Drives
• Renewable Energy and the Environment
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Electric Energy Courses (13 + 4)
• Power Systems (6 + 1)
• Power Electronics (3 + 1)
• Electric Machines and Drives (3 + 1)
• Renewable Energy and the Environment (1 + 2)
Black: Developed by Summer 2014
Red: Planned in 2-3 years
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Courses in Power Systems
1.Power Systems + Software Lab (core course)
2.Advanced Power Systems I
3.Advanced Power Systems II
4.Power Generation, Operation and Control
5.Power System Protection + Lab
6.Electricity Markets
7.Synchrophasors, wide area protection
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Courses in Power Electronics
1. Power Electronics + Lab (core course)
2. Advanced Power Electronics I
3. Advanced Power Electronics II
4. HVDC Transmission and Power Electronics in Power Systems
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Courses in Electric Machines and Drives
1. Electric Drives + Lab (core course)
2. Advanced Electric Drives: Modeling and Control
3. Electric Machine Design
4. Finite Element Analysis for Designing Electrical Apparatus
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Courses in Renewable Energy and the Environment
1. Wind Energy Essentials
2. Solar Electric Systems, Fuel Cells, Storage
3. Energy, Environmental Policies, Regulatory Issues
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Textbooks underlying these courses:
- Translated into 7 Languages - Plans for Edited Books 31
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Nationwide Dissemination through ONR/NSF Funding
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Issues Limiting Wider Utilization: - Lack of appropriate faculty in many EE
departments - Lack of a critical number of students
at many colleges/universities
Proposed Solution: - Online courses
- Online terminal master’s degree
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Rationale for Offering Online Courses and an Online Terminal Master’s Degree
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1.Educated Workforce to meet increasing demands related to electric energy
2.Make a large selection of courses available to students nationwide
3.Keep certain power-related courses, critical to national infrastructure, from disappearing
4.Keep evolving these courses
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Proposal for Online Education
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• Quality Education
– First-rate content developed by experts (3 NAE members, over 10 IEEE Fellows) from academia and industry
– Unlike MOOCs: Limited class sizes (75 or so)
– Rigorous: Quizzes, HW, class projects, Proctored Exams
• Convenient Availability
– As a course to utilize within a degree program anywhere
– As a terminal master’s degree from the UofMN
• Highly Affordable!
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Nationwide Beneficiaries
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• Graduate students at universities nationwide
• Practicing Engineers
• Companies requiring expertise in electric energy
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Uniqueness of Proposed Program
• No university has such a large selection of courses
• Developed by experts from academia and industry
• Taught online with synchronous and asynchronous components – Flexible scheduling in evenings or on weekends to
accommodate practicing engineers
• Overcomes shortages of qualified faculty
• Overcomes the challenge of critical number of students to make the course offering viable
• Our course content is completely transparent – can be downloaded ahead of time by anyone totally free-of-charge
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Online Pedagogy Instructor + TA do the following each week using Moodle:
– Video Clips are assigned – Online Concept Quizzes on these video clips – Instructor holds an online 2-hour class where
students can ask questions in real-time – Class session is recorded for later viewing – HW: online + hand-graded by the TA – TA has online office hours to answer questions
• Proctored Exams • Flexible scheduling in evenings or on weekends
Limited Enrollment Online: 75-100 students
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Summary
• CUSP™ is resulting in large enrollments and quality education
• Possibility of offering a highly affordable online graduate courses and Master’s degree in electric energy
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Thank You!
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