University of Technology

Welcome to

Chalmers

Ola Carlson

Coordinator of Programme

EE master programmes

• Biomedical Engineering, MPBME

• Communication Engineering, MPCOM

• Electric Power Engineering, MPEPO

• Integrated Electronic System Design, MPIES

• Microtechnology, MPMIC

• Wireless and Photonics Engineering, MPMPE

(in total 44 master programmes at Chalmers)

What will we do now?

• Schedule for the rest of the day

• Studies at Chalmers – short, short version

• Presentation of Electric Power Engineering

• Guide tour at Division of Electric Power Engineering

• Ends at 11:00

Schedule for rest of today

• 11:00 E-students will pick you up in this room and

give a guide tour at Chalmers.

• 13:30 Info for new students Study at Chalmers, HC1,

by EE-master study counselor Marie Mattsson

• 15:20 - 15:40 Enrolment, A-buildning, Ljusgården

(bring registation form filled in + ID documents)

Tomorrow lectures start at 08:00

http://timeedit.ita.chalmers.se

Students from Chalmers – please

help your new course mates!

Newcomers – please ask!

Studies at Chalmers…

• Academic year = two semesters (autumn and spring)

• Two study periods/quaters each semester (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4)

• Each study period 7 weeks of study followed by one exam week

• Three re-exam periods (January, March, August)

• Nominal work load 50 hrs per week!!!

• Usually two courses (each of 7,5hec) in parallell

• Two years = 120hec (higher educational credits)

• Education is given in English (Swedish not allowed in exams)

• Teaching starts at 08:00, 10:00 etc but 13:15, 15:15 (be in time!)

• Course evaluations (SNE – EE student study council)

• Web based systems, i.e. you often have to find information on your own (www.chalmers.se, Student portal, TimeEdit etc)

• Chalmers’ Library

Examination

• Written examination usually 4 hrs (M or V buildings)

• Other forms of examination exist

• Registration compulsory

• Starting times 08:30 (am) or 14:00 (pm)

• Check course pm for information (pass requirements, aids etc.)

• Grades are absolute not relative

• Grades: Pass/ Fail (U/G) or U, 3, 4, 5

• Sometimes ”Chalmers’ approved calculator” only

• ID

• Solutions available the day after the exam

• Review of markings and appeal the grading

• Re-sit to improve grade is allowed

• Cheating

Where to buy books and

course material

• Cremona

In student union building, Chalmersplatsen 1,

Business hours: Mon - Fri 08:45 – 14:30

• DC

In EDIT building, 1st floor

Business hours: Mon - Fri 09:45 – 15:15

(closed for lunch 13.15 - 13.45)

“Where to…”

• Where to eat?

- Many restaurants on campus check out http://rest.chalmrest.se/

for more info.

- Microwaves for heating food in Linsen and EE student guild

premises

• Where to study?

- Library, Linsen, group rooms...

• Where to smoke?

- Outdoors!

In case of fire

If the fire alarm sounds:

• Leave the building immediately

• Assemble at the designated assembly point

- For EDIT building assembly point is outside Gibraltar Herrgård

• Do not enter the building until you have been instructed to do so by

building supervisor or fire brigade.

- For EDIT building the supervisor is Roland Ekman

Evacuation plans are posted on the walls –

study them for your own safety!

Use key buttons to exit

through locked doors

Only to be used in

emergency situations!

Important laws

• The work environments act (arbetsmiljölagen)

– We are each other’s work environment!

– Discrimination = exclusion

– Use the common language – English!

• Equal Treatment of Students at Universities Act

(likabehandlingslagen)

– ethnic belonging (ethnic harassment),

– religion or other religious faith (harassment owing to religion or other religious faith),

– sexual orientation (harassment owing to sexual orientation),

– disability (harassment owing to disability), or

– sex or is of a sexual nature (sexual harassment).

Ola Carlson

ola.carlson@chalmers.se

Phone number: 031 – 772 1637

Enjoy your two years of

studies at MPEPO,

Chalmers, Gothenburg and

Sweden!

Registration Data Form

Important!!!

Fill in and bring to the

enrolment 15:20-15:40

Don’t forget your ID documents!!

Course evaluations at Chalmers

Common process from

academic year 2007/08

Overview for

teachers and students

Continuous course development

Course evaluations are a part

of the never-ceasing efforts to

improve courses and

programmes at Chalmers.

Student experiences, as expressed

and collected in course

evaluations, form an essential

input to this development of

quality.

Which courses are affected?

All courses at Chalmers are evaluated as

described here

… with the possible exception of courses

at the master level with few (< 20) students.

These may adopt a simplified process, where

teacher and students continuously discuss the

course.

What does Swedish law say?

According to Swedish law, the university

shall give each student, who

participates in a course, an

opportunity to express his/her views

on the course in a course evaluation

organized by the university.

The university shall put evaluations

together and inform about the results

and possible actions taken in

response. Results shall be made

available to the students.

Goals for the evaluation process

• The aim of the process is to develop the goals,

contents and pedagogy of the courses, focusing on

student learning.

• The process shall encourage a dialogue between

teachers and students on how the education can be

improved.

• The process shall profit from student experiences, in

order to improve current and future courses, as

well as the study programmes as a whole.

The process• Three meetings between 2-6 student representatives and the

teacher. In the final meeting, also representatives from the programme, the department and the student union may attend.

• Brief, web-based, anonymous questionnaire to all students.

• Minutes from the final meeting available in the student portal.

1 2 3 4 5 76 Exam 1 2 3 4 5 76 Exam

Course intro

Meeting 1

Meeting 2

Meeting 3

Questionnaire

MinutesPortal

Representatives

presented

Notes on

course website

Chalmers centrally, responsibilities

• Maintains and develops course evaluation

process.

• Provides IT support (questionnaire system,

minutes template, routines for linking from

portal).

• Informs about process and tools.

Programme leadership,

responsibilities

• Appoints (in collaboration with student union)

student representantives; informs teacher.

• Assembles and distributes standard

questionnaire.

• Puts questionnaire results together.

• Schedules and calls to final meeting.

• Chairs final meeting and archives minutes in

Chalmers’ document system.

Teacher, responsibilites

• Informs briefly about process during course introduction and in course documents; presents student representantatives.

• Calls two first meetings together, publishes notes from 2nd meeting on course website.

• Presents his/her views and experiences at final meeting.

• Develops course for next year, according to departmental decisions and routines.

Student representantatives,

responsibilities

• Inform themselves of their fellow students’ views on the course.

• Pass these views on at the meetings and participate in discussions in a personal capacity.

• May propose course-specific questions in questionnaire.

• Inform fellow students of discussions and recommendations at the meetings.

Each representative is reimbursed with a voucher

for 200 SEK, valid at Cremona.

Meetings 1 and 2• First meeting (week 1) is brief and will typically take

place in connection with a teaching activity.

Aims: to establish contact, clarify teacher’s and

students’ thoughts regarding the course and to

decide on and publish time for meeting 2.

• The second meeting (week 3-4) discusses e.g.

– Changes in the course since last year.

– Study climate (communication, work load, supervision).

– Problematic course items; can resources be used better?

– Course-specific questions in questionnaire; other material for final

meeting?

Notes are published on course website..

Final meetingTakes place in week 4 of the subsequent study period.

Examination complete, questionnaire summarized.

More attendees: representatives for programme,

department and student union.

• Summarizing judgment.

• Goal fulfilment.

• Organisation and pedagogy.

• Study climate.

• Desirable changes for next year.

Link to minutes from course plan in student portal.

Welcome to

Electric Power Engineering

Master’s Programme

Programme teaching by

• Division of

• Electric Power Engineering

• High Voltage Engineering

Research Projects

• Large-scale integration of wind power generation

• Grid reinforcing wind generation

• Dc/dc converters in wind application

• Transient voltages in windfarms

• Transformer diagnostics

• Modelling of electric discharges

• Efficiency of building related pump and fan operation –System solutions, motor technology and control

• Isolated rural distribution networks with a large penetration of renewable sources

PM-generators

Lab-test of PM-generator

Chalmers test station for wind power

Aim of Electric Power Engineering

• is to serve the society and industry with

fundamental and advanced knowledge in the

field of electric power, trough well educated

engineers.

• is to impart an advanced level education in

Electric Power Engineering to students

Electric Power Engineering

Programme plan

According to the tradition Electric Power will give the students in the master’s programme;

• good theoretical knowledge by means of lectures and tutorials.

• good practical experience by means of computer exercises (simulation) and laboratory exercises (experimentation).

• good contact with industry by means of invited guest lecturers, study visits and

• opportunity to carry out master thesis work in industry.

To be master in Electric Power

Engineering

The core of the programme is the 13 courses giving a solid foundation

in the electric power area for the students who are aiming to be

specialists.

However, it is also possible for the student to select a minimum of 6

courses, in electric power and broaden their interest by taking

courses in Control Theory, Hardware Design, Signals and Systems,

Energy and Environment, Economics and Management or Material

Technology

And Master’s Thesis Work

Master’s Programme in Electric Power

Engineering, year 1, September 2010

Q - I Q - II Q - III Q - IV

Power System

Analysis

High Voltage

Engineering

Power System

Operation

High Voltage

Technology

Electric Drives I Power Electronic

Converters

Electric Drives II Power Electronic

Devices and

Applications

Power

Engineering

Design Project

Elective Course Elective Course Elective Course Elective Course

Master’s Programme in Electric Power

Engineering, year 2, September 2011

Q - I Q - II Q - III Q - IV

Sustainable

Power

Production and

Transportation

Power Market

Management

Master’s Thesis Work

(30 ECTS credits)Applied

Computational

Electro-

magnetics

Power

Electronic

Solutions for

Power Systems

Power

Engineering

Design Project

Elective Course Elective Course

Registration of courses

•To see the information on “Student portal” You

are registered

ENM050Power System Analysis

ENM055Electric Drives I

MTT035High Voltage Engineering

ENM060Power Electronic Converters

if other courses change the registration

Recommended courses

• Control Theory

• Hardware Design

• Energy and Environment

• Signals and Systems

• Economics and Management

• Material Technology

Courses

• One responsible teacher

• Several assistants

• Information

Course Web-page

Web – Student portal

– Division Electric Power Engineering

Course-PM

registration to laboratory exercises

• Course evaluation

• Two contact students

Scholarship for study trips

• KG Hallby

-- Power electronic and machines

• Schneiders fund to Erik Feuks memory

-- High voltage and power systems

Do you get a job ?

• Yes, there is a need in industry for new electric power engineers

• more electric cars, hybrid cars

• more electric aircrafts

• new power systems

• more wind turbines

• more telecom power

• next 25 years 17,000,000,000,000 US$ will be invested world wide in the energy sector

Power Systems

Power Electronics

Reliability andSystem Planning

System Analysisand Design

Operations Research

Generation,Transmission,Distribution

Operation and Control

High Voltage

Economics

Power Market

Management

(p2-y2)

Behaviours of buyers

and sellers

Market modelling

and optimization

Transmission open

access and pricing

Reliability analysis, and

reliability in markets

Ancillary services

management

Generation and

transmission investment

Power

System

Analysis

(p1-y1)

Power

System

Operation

(p3-y1)

Power System Courses

Balanced faults

Symmetrical

components and

unbalanced faults

AC transmission

line modelling

Transformer

modelling

Power flow analysis,

power flow control

Fundamentals

Stability analysis

(angle, voltage)

Power system

protection

Control of voltage

and frequency

Sync. generator model

in stability analysis

Emergency control,

blackouts and restoration

Operation planning

(ELD, UC, OPF)

Lightning discharge

Surge arrester in

polymeric housing

• Electric field control

• Discharges and breakdown

• Insulation coordination

• Measuring techniques

• Material characterisation

• Power system components

• Numerical methods

• Industrial applications

Calculated electrical field distribution in a cable termination

On-site dielectric

spectroscopy

measurements

Biological growth on a composite

outdoor insulator

High Voltage Engineering

Power Electronic

•Switchmode dc/dc-converters

•PWM switched ac-converters

•Diode and thyristor line rectifiers

•Converter design (drivers, heat-

sinks, snubbers), EMI/EMC issues

•Residential, Commercial and

Industrial applications

•Vehicle applications

•Utility applications, HVDC, FACS

•Semiconductors: Properties and

construction

• Review of Control Engineering

• DC and AC machines: theory, applications, steady-

state and dynamic performance

• Motor/Drive selection

• Construction of a drive system in the computer

environment Matlab/Simulink.

• Lectures and tutorials are given in conjunction with

practical laboratory work and computer simulations.

Electric Drives

Interface/Controller

Sensor

Power Processing Unit (PPU)