Acerca de este curso: This course familiarizes you with standards and policies of the electric utility industry, and provides you with basic vocabulary used in the business. It introduces the electric power system, from generation of the electricity all the way to the wall plug. You will learn about the segments of the system, and common components like power cables and transformers. The course is a combination of online lectures, videos, readings and discussions. This is the first course in the Energy Industry: Production, Distribution & Safety specialization that explores various facets of the power sector, and features a culminating project involving creation of a roadmap to achieve a self-established, energy-related professional goal.
Para quién es esta clase: This course is for individuals considering a career in the energy field (who have a high school diploma, at minimum, and basic knowledge of mathematics), and existing energy sector employees with less than three years of experience who have not completed similar training and would benefit from a course of foundational industry concepts.
Enseñado por: Ilya Grinberg, Professor
Engineering Technology
| Información básica | |
| Nivel | Principiante |
| Compromiso | 4 weeks, 2.5 to 5 hours/week |
| Idioma | Inglés (English) |
| Cómo aprobar | Aprueba todas las tareas calificadas para completar el curso. |
| Calificaciones del usuario |
- Reading: Acknowledgements
- Vídeo: Basic Electricity: Concepts
- Practice Quiz: Self-Check
- Vídeo: Basic Electrical Properties
- Practice Quiz: Self-Check
- Vídeo: Simple Circuits
- Practice Quiz: Self-Check
- Vídeo: Ohm's Law
- Practice Quiz: Self-Check
- Vídeo: AC Current
- Practice Quiz: Self-check
- Reading: Basic Electricity (OPTIONAL) Resources
- Practice Quiz: Self-check
- Vídeo: Generation
- Practice Quiz: Self-check
- Vídeo: Transmission & Subtransmission
- Practice Quiz: Self-check
- Vídeo: Distribution
- Practice Quiz: Self-check
- Reading: Generation, Transmission, & Distribution (OPTIONAL) Resources
- Practice Quiz: Self-check
- Vídeo: Switches
- Practice Quiz: Self-check
- Vídeo: Double-Busbar & Switching Sequence
- Practice Quiz: Self-check
- Reading: System Design & Switching (OPTIONAL) Resources
- Practice Quiz: Self-check
- Vídeo: Smart Grid, Utilities & Consumers
- Practice Quiz: Self-check
- Vídeo: Smart Grid & the Environment
- Practice Quiz: Self-check
- Vídeo: Renewable Energy
- Practice Quiz: Self-check
- Reading: Renewable Energy & Smart Grid Technologies (OPTIONAL) Resources
- Reading: Roadmap to Success Resources: Project Definition
- Reading: Roadmap to Success: Project Definition
- Reading: Electric Power Systems - Key Takeaways
Each course is like an interactive textbook, featuring pre-recorded videos, quizzes and projects.
Connect with thousands of other learners and debate ideas, discuss course material, and get help mastering concepts.
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| Comprar curso | |
|---|---|
| Accede a los materiales del curso | Disponible |
| Accede a los materiales con calificación | Disponible |
| Recibe una calificación final | Disponible |
| Obtén un Certificado de curso para compartir | Disponible |
Educating
This course is a good one for people interested in electricity generation and its utilization.
A comprehensive course that covers all the basics regarding Electric Power Systems. If you're an Engineering student, graduated or somehow interested in Electric Power System, then you must sign up for this course to get benefited by the content University of the Buffalo has put in all together for the students and enthusiasts who are in interested in Electrical Power Systems.
AJ
Easy to learn. Highly Recommended