Energy Center

The following courses have been developed by Purdue faculty to train tomorrow’s engineering and technology workforce, to design, develop, and maintain the Smart Grid.

BCM 499 - Expanding Contractor Expertise in Smart Grid Technologies

This course covers topics in smart grid technologies for all aspects of the power generation, transmission and distribution system, including high voltage transmission line and distribution construction, for students in Purdue’s construction programs and industrial contractors interested in smart grid technologies.

ChemE 450 - Design and Analysis of Processing Systems

Use of flow sheet balance calculations, chemical kinetics and thermodynamics, transfer operations, and process economics in designing chemical processing systems. Analysis of design alternatives using case studies and optimization methods.

CNIT 581 - SGS, Smart Grid Seminar

CNIT is a 3 credit hour class to shape collaboration in energy project space, built upon students’ research in EV and Smart Grid as Smart Energy projects.   

CNIT 581 - Smart Grid Security

The course will introduce the concept, design and purpose of the Smart Grid, current and relevant technologies developed, and its vulnerabilities/weaknesses to a cyber attack.  

CNIT 581 - Smart Grid Intelligent Infrastructure

The course will provide a sequence to understand basic elements of intelligent control through the use of basic theory and practice, relationships of intelligent agents and grids technology and intelligent devices commonly used in Smart Grids.

ECE433 - Power Electronics

ECE433 is a three credit course dealing with analysis of power electronic circuits including dc-dc converters, dc-ac inverters, and ac-dc rectifiers. These circuits are the main building blocks for grid integration of renewable energy systems, e.g., wind and photovoltaics.

ECET 499 - An Introduction to the Smart Grid

The course will serve as an introduction to the technologies and policies associated with the Smart Grid. The emphasis will be on the development of communications, measurement and management tools to monitoring and managing changing loads and generation on a closed electric grid.

IE 590 - Power Systems and Smart Grid

This course serves as a graduate-level introduction to the broad subject of power systems, focusing on the basics of electricity, economic fundamentals of power systems and electricity generation (supply/demand economics) in regulated/deregulated environment.

ME 597W/583, MET317 - Wind Energy Systems Laboratory & Project Offering

The course focuses on experimental dynamics for performance and reliability characterization, utilizing the wind energy laboratory to make measurements including rotor, nacelle and power electronics variables, for integration into the Smart Grid.

MGMT 48400 - Management of New Ventures

Management of New Ventures is a case based course which teaches principles dealing with identifying market demand, managing intellectual property, and increasing the probability of commercialization success for new technologies.