POWER SYSTEM RELIABILITY

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Three credit -hours. Three hours of lecture per week. This is an introductory course in power system reliability evaluation with emphasis on probabilistic techniques. The course introduces the basic reliability concepts using probability and statistics. The significance of outage data collection and classification in realistic system planning will be examined. The course concludes with a final design project. Students will apply quantitative reasoning and modern engineering tools to analyze and design power systems and use critical thinking to evaluate the reliability of power systems encountered in residential and commercial energy distribution systems.