Course Information

Class: Tuesday, Thursday, 2:30pm-4:20pm, MUE 153.
Instructor: Baosen Zhang, zhangbao@uw.edu, Office: ECE M310.
Labs: Labs start in the third week of class.
TA: Trager Joswig-Jones, joswitra@uw.edu; Lauren Streitmatter, lstreit@uw.edu
Website: The main website is http://zhangbaosen.github.io/teaching/EE351. We use the Canvas website for grading and homework submissions.

Course Description:

Upon completing this course, the student should be able to:

  • Calculate voltages, currents and powers using phasor analysis
  • Understand the operation of basic power electronics circuits
  • Understand how various energy sources of energy can be transformed into electrical power, calculate how much power can be generated
  • Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these various sources of energy
  • Understand and perform calculation on balanced 3-phase systems
  • Under the operation of transformers and electrical machines, calculate various parameters associated with transformers and machines
  • Explain the safety issues associated with electricity distribution systems
  • Discuss how and why blackouts occur

Prerequisite(s)

  • EE 215
  • Familarity with linear algebra, calculus, and basic circuit theory

Textbook(s)

  1. Required textbook: Daniel S. Kirschen, “Power Systems: Fundamental Concepts and the Transition to Sustainability. John Wiley & Sons, 2024
  2. Good reference: Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi, “Electrical Energy: An Introduction”

Assignments

  1. Weekly Homework Assignments
  2. Three lab assignments

Grade Distribution

  • Homework, 25%
  • Labs, 25%
  • Midterm, 25%
  • Final, 25%

Notes

  1. AI tools, such as ChatGPT, present opportunities that can contribute to your learning and academic work. If you use such tools, you must clearly state where they are used and how they contributed to your work. Otherwise, using these technologies may violate academic standards of the University. This includes, but is not limited to, copying the homework question into an LLM and presenting the answer as your own.
  2. The exams are in class and closed book. You may bring one sheet of paper and a calculator.

Course Policies

Late homework assignments will not be accepted without permission from the instructor.

AI Tools and Academic Integrity

AI content generators, such as ChatGPT, present opportunities that can contribute to your learning and academic work. If you use such tools, you must clearly state where they are used and how they contributed to your work. Otherwise, using these technologies may violate academic standards of the University.

Disabled Students

If you have a documented disability and wish to discuss academic accommodations, please contact Disability Resources for Students (DRS), a unit within the Division of Student Life at UW. They will inform me and I’m happy to make reasonable accommodation.

Conduct

The University of Washington Student Conduct Code (WAC 478-121) defines prohibited academic and behavioral conduct and describes how the University holds students accountable as they pursue their academic goals. Allegations of misconduct by students may be referred to the appropriate campus office for investigation and resolution. More information can be found online at https://www.washington.edu/studentconduct/.

Academic Honesty Policy Summary

I expect every member of the class to conform to the highest standards of academic integrity. Cheating can result in failure of the course and/or eventual expulsion from the University. For more information, please see https://www.washington.edu/cssc/facultystaff/academic-misconduct/. Because your homework has a bearing on your grade, it must be your own original work. You may compare homework answers and discuss problem solving methods with other students in the class, but the final result - the work you hand in - must consist of work that you, and you only, have performed. Copying homework done by someone else, or copying old homework or the answer key, copying the work of anyone else on examinations, the use of unauthorized notes or other unauthorized aids during examinations, and knowingly permitting your work to be copied for the purpose of cheating are all examples of cheating.

Medical Excuse Notes

Students are expected to attend class and to participate in all graded activities. To protect student privacy and the integrity of the academic experience, students will not be required to provide a medical excuse note to justify an absence from class due to illness. A student absent from any graded class activity or examination due to illness must request, in writing, to take a rescheduled examination or perform work judged by the instructor to be the equivalent. Students are responsible for taking any number of examinations for which they are scheduled on a given day and may not request an adjustment for this reason alone.

Religious Accommodations

Washington state law requires that UW develop a policy for accommodation of student absences or significant hardship due to reasons of faith or conscience, or for organized religious activities. The UW’s policy, including more information about how to request an accommodation, is available at Religious Accommodations Policy.