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Welcome to Electric Energy Systems

News Announcement:

Mark Your Calendar: 2014 Faculty Workshop Dates
February 6-9, 2014
Napa Valley Marriott
Napa, California
Online registration is now available. (click here, for the Feb. 2014 Faculty Workshop page)

The Electric Energy Systems group at the University of Minnesota has two primary focus areas - Reforming Education and Research.

Reforming Education

The goal of this project is to develop a workforce with a forward-looking education, emphasizing Renewables/Storage, Smart Delivery and Efficient End-use.

With grants from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), National Science Foundation (NSF) and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), we have developed curriculum with supporting textbooks and labs in Power Electronics, Electric Drives and Power Systems. This curriculum has been adopted by 97 university courses nationwide.

Click here to learn more about our efforts.

 

CUSP™ Course Modules

CUSP™ is a Consortium of Universities for Sustainable Power. This consortium will include universities that have come together to utilize, collectively evolve and promote the curriculum developed at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities with the help of funding from various organizations including NSF, ONR (Office of Naval Research), NASA and EPRI. The online video modules developed are now available at http://cusp.umn.edu/.

 

Highlights

 

Faculty Workshop - February 2012 - The workshop on "Electric Energy Systems Curriculum for Sustainability" was held from February 2 to 5 at Napa, California. More details here.

A 3-year ONR grant received to “Center for Developing and Disseminating a Graduate/Undergraduate Curriculum in Electric Energy Systems to Universities and Practicing Engineers”

ONR-NSF Faculty Workshop - August 2011- ONR-NSF Sponsored Faculty Development Workshop (August 10-13, Minneapolis, Minnesota). More details here.

Faculty Workshop - February 2011 - The workshop on Reforming Electric Energy Systems Curriculum was held from February 4 to 5 at Napa, California. More details here.