Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Power Systems Engineering
Certificate Level: Graduate
Admission Requirements: Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
Certificate Type: Graduate Certificate
Number of Credits to Completion: 24.0
Instructional Delivery: Online
Calendar Type: Quarter
Expected Time to Completion: 2 years
Financial Aid Eligibility: Not aid eligible
Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) Code: 14.4801
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) Code: 11-9041
About the Program
The objective of this certificate is to provide students/professionals with the knowledge to support related technical project including electrification, de-carbonation, and aging equipment retirement expansion. This program will prepare students/engineers to be equipped with the technical knowledge and to meet the needs of utility corporations to retain existing employees, to develop professionals in meeting the new rising technical challenges, and to attract new, young professionals to join the challenging workforce.
Admission Requirements
Students should have a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with the necessary pre-requisites. Student's without a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering would require coursework exposure to circuits (i.e., RLC circuits, nodal analysis phasors) and linear algebra (i.e., vector and matrix computation).
Degree Requirements
| Required Courses: | ||
| ECEP 501 | Power System Analysis | 3.0 |
| ECEP 601 | Modeling & Analysis of Power Distribution Systems | 3.0 |
| ECEP 641 | Protective Relaying | 3.0 |
| ECEP 642 | Protective Relay Laboratory | 3.0 |
| ECEP 671 | AC-DC and DC-AC Power Electronic Converters | 3.0 |
| ECEP T580 | Special Topics in ECEP | 3.0 |
| Technical Electives (Select two): * | 6.0 | |
| Computer Analysis of Power Systems | ||
| Power Distribution Automation and Control | ||
| Service and Power Quality in Distribution Systems | ||
| Economic Operation of Power Systems | ||
| Solid State Protective Relaying | ||
| Power Electronic Experiments: Hardware and Software | ||
| Power Electronic Applications | ||
| Load Forecasting & Probability Methods | ||
| Total Credits | 24.0 | |
- *
Select three from the list below or any ECE department course with advisor approval.
Sample Plan of Study
| First Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer | Credits | ||||||
| ECEP 501 | 3.0 | ||||||
| 3 | |||||||
| Second Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| ECEP 601 | 3.0 | ECEP 641 | 3.0 | ECEP 642 | 3.0 | Technical Elective* | 3.0 |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Third Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | ||
| ECEP 671 | 3.0 | Technical Elective* | 3.0 | ECEP T580 | 3.0 | ||
| 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Total Credits 24 | |||||||
- *
Select three from the Technical Electives list or any ECE department course with advisor approval.
Additional Information
For more information about this program, contact Anup Das PhD at ad3639@drexel.edu.