Informações sobre o 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 quem é direcionado este curso: 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.
Desenvolvido por: University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Ministrado por: Ilya Grinberg, Professor
Engineering Technology
| Informações básicas | |
| Nível | Básico |
| Compromisso | 4 weeks, 2.5 to 5 hours/week |
| Idioma | English |
| Como ser aprovado | Seja aprovado em todas as tarefas para concluir o curso. |
Programa
SEMANA 1
Basic Electricity
Electricity is a term that covers all the phenomena caused either by static electric charge or by the movement of charge (current) and the electrical and magnetic fields associated with that.
This module looks at: Nature and Effects of Electricity; Basic Electrical Properties and Simple Circuits.
6 videos, 2 leituras, 5 testes para praticar
- 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
Nota atribuída: Basic Electricity
SEMANA 2
Generation, Transmission, & Distribution
Electrical energy is transmitted and distributed via overhead lines and underground cables operating at different voltage levels. It is necessary to mesh networks to ensure dependable supply for consumers even if individual transmission paths fail.
This module focuses on: Substations & Transformers; Generation; Transmission & Subtransmission and Distribution.
4 videos, 1 leituras, 4 testes para praticar
- 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
Nota atribuída: Generation, Transmission, & Distribution
SEMANA 3
System Design & Switching
Circuit breakers are complicated electromechanical devices and must be serviced regularly. So that work on them can be perform safely, switches are installed before and after them.
3 videos, 1 leituras, 3 testes para praticar
- 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
Nota atribuída: System Design & Switching
SEMANA 4
Renewable Energy & Smart Grid Technologies
Our nation’s electric power infrastructure that has served us so well for so long – also known as “the grid” – is rapidly running up against its limitations.
This module looks at Smart Grid Risks; Smart Grid, Utilities & Customers; Smart Grid & the Environment and Renewable Energy.
4 videos, 4 leituras, 4 testes para praticar
- 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
Nota atribuída: Renewable Energy & Smart Grid Technologies
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