Electrical Power Engineering
ECE565 · Colorado State University
Fall 2025 | Fort Collins, CO · Accelerated MSEE credit
Why I took it
Dual-counted toward the accelerated MSEE. At BOR I work on a digital exciter that has to sit on a real plant — I wanted the grid-side analysis, not just the firmware: current, voltage, P and Q, faults, and whether the machine stays in step.
What I learned
Network models
Three-phase analysis, per-unit, transformers, transmission-line models, and the voltage-behind-reactance synchronous-machine model — then Y-bus and Z-bus assembly so the network is a matrix you can actually modify.
Power flow and faults
The power-flow problem in MATLAB/Simscape, then symmetrical components and both symmetric and asymmetric fault studies — the cases that tell you what a protection scheme is looking at.
Estimation, stability, and dispatch
Weighted-least-squares state estimation, swing-curve integration for transient stability, and economic dispatch / unit commitment — plus two Simscape projects that force the bookwork onto a system you can plot.
Selected work
Four-bus one-line used for Y-bus work.
Network schematic for Y-bus assembly.
Direct-form diagram used with the one-line.