POWER SYSTEMS OPERATION AND CONTROL

Tomsk Polytechnic University

The key evolutionary trends of electrical power industry, associated with the growing share of renewable energy sources, decentralized generation, digitalization of utilities and consumers, development of market mechanisms and other advancements, result in complication of power system control tasks. This leads to increased demand of specialist, demonstrating up-to-date knowledge and readiness to fast changes in industry.

The program “Power systems operation and control” provides cutting-edge knowledge about theoretical basis and methods of power system planning, dispatch and automatic control in normal and emergency states, the architecture of local and centralized control and protection systems, the methods of their configuration, as well as critical awareness of knowledge issues in a field of electrical power. The special attention is paid to acquiring of narrowly specialized practical skills of use of modern information and control systems, knowledge of the current industry norms and regulations, development of critical thinking and ability to responsibly solve non-standard tasks.

The students learn with the use of modern equipment and software involved in business processes of industrial companies.

The competences and content of the program are developed in cooperation with industrial partner – Russian Power System Operator

The program is in line with Bologna process and European Qualification Framework requirements.

The program was advanced within Erasmus+ ESSENCE with the following features:

  • the learning outcomes and content of the program courses are agreed with ESSENCE core curriculum that was developed in cooperation with EU experts and industry representatives;
  • the key teaching staff was trained to apply competence based approach for designing and implementation of education programs, use of advance teaching techniques, integration of the educational experience of EU leading universities;
  • cutting-edge equipment is installed to allow learning of advanced IT technologies used in electrical power industry (phasor measurements, IEC 61850, machine learning and others), as well as to improve efficiency of online and blended learning.

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