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Certificate Program in
Smart Grid Technologies and Management

www.ee.washington.edu/academic/pmp/certificates.html
What the Certificate Covers

This nine-month certificate program provides an overview of Smart Grid technologies and management and
examines three areas:
 Customer and Utility Distribution and Management
 Bulk Power and Energy Delivery
 Renewable Energy Integration and Operation
The program is offered in the classroom.
Who Should Apply

 Individuals with a BSEE (or equivalent), preferably with a basic background in energy and power
systems
 Practicing engineers, and other professionals seeking careers in power systems
Program Structure
The Smart Grid Certificate Program consists of 12 graduate-level credits, offered over Spring, Summer, and
Autumn quarters.
Spring Course:
EE 559 Special Topics in Electrical Energy Systems:
“Customer and Utility Distribution and Management”
 New technologies and their impact o Customer demand control and

 New concepts in protection: conservation
o Microgrid and DG protection  New system models and methods under
o Distribution system protection with smart grid paradigm
new topologies  New application software development
 Advanced distribution automation  AMI and smart metering
o New functions  Hardware and migration to middleware
o IDMS  Planning and implementation
o Customer demand response and  Asset management
management  Safety, maintenance and operations
o Energy audits  Data sensing, management, mining and
exchange
Summer Course:
“Bulk Power and Energy Delivery”
 New technologies and their impact  Direct digital control of smart grid
 New concepts in protection:  Power system dynamics and control
o Transmission: Wide area sensing,  Next generation of EMS
communications, control and o New automation functions
protection, synchronized phasor o New roles of system operators and
measurements, PMU's training
o Ancillary issues  Standards
o Congestion management
o NIST role and inter-operability  Performance evaluation: efficiency, reliability,
standards cost-benefit analysis
 Cyber and physical security  Hardware and migration to middleware
 New system models and methods under  Planning and implementation
smart grid paradigm  Asset management
 New application software development  Safety, maintenance and operations
Autumn Course:
“Renewable Energy Integration and Operation”
• Renewable Energy Landscape – Diversion-Type Small Hydroelectric

• Wind Energy System
– Basic Power Electronic Converters – Modeling of Hydroelectric Systems
for Wind Turbines – Hydroelectric System and the
– Basic Wind Speed Statistics Environment
– Energy of Wind • Other renewable Systems
– Wind Turbines and Systems – Geothermal
– Wind Generators – Tidal and Wave
– Wind Energy Penetration – Biomass
– Wind Energy Integration • Integration of Renewable Systems
– Dynamic Modeling of Wind Turbines – Definition of Integration
– Control of Wind Turbines – Impacts of Renewable Energy on
– Wind Energy and the environment Power Grid
• Solar Energy • Reactive Power
– Basic types of Solar Systems • Voltage Flickers
– Statistics of Solar Energy • Frequency deviations
– PV systems, Modeling, Analysis and • Harmonics
Control • Flicker
– Thermo-Solar Systems, modeling, • voltage stability
Analysis and Control • Dynamic Performance
– Solar Energy Integration during Faults
– Solar Energy and the environment • Forecasting
• Hydrogen Energy • Clustered vs Distributed
– Fuel Cell types Systems
– Chemical Energy Conversions  Renewable Energy Integration Solutions
– Fuel Cell Integration o Adaptive VAR Compensator
– Modeling of Fuel Cells o Voltage and frequency control
– Control of Fuel Cells o System islanding
– Fuel Cell and Environment o Ride-though Faults
• Hydroelectric o Load Following
– Hydrodynamics o Automatic Generation Control
– Reservoir-Type Small Hydroelectric o Energy Regulation
System o Unit Committment in Stocastic
Environment
Instructors:
S. S. (Mani) Venkata
Venkata has been active in the IEEE for 42 years and is president of Venkata Consulting Solutions Inc. In addition to
the University of Washington, Mani has held positions at Clarkson University, Iowa State University, West Virginia
University and University of Massachusetts. He has offered training courses on distribution systems, planning and
automation, power quality, reliability and safety and power system analysis. He has published and/or presented over
300 publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and is a co-author of the book Introduction to Electric
Energy Systems Prentice-Hall Publications, 1987. He is a registered professional engineer in Washington and West
Virginia and has received the Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award and the Third Millennium Award from the
IEEE.
Mohamed El-Sharkawi
El-Sharkawi is a Fellow of IEEE and is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. He
received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 1980. He is the founder of the
international conference on the Application of Neural Networks to Power Systems (ANNPS) and Co-founder of the
international conference on Intelligent Systems Applications to Power (ISAP). He is a member of the administrative
committee of the IEEE Neural Networks Council representing the Power Engineering Society, Video Tutorial Chair of
the IEEE Continuing Education Committee and founding Chairman of several IEEE task forces and working groups and
subcommittees.
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Certificate Program in

Smart Grid Technologies and Management

What the Certificate Covers

The program is offered in the classroom.

Who Should Apply

 New technologies and their impact o Customer demand control and

• Renewable Energy Landscape – Diversion-Type Small Hydroelectric

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