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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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

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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.

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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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