CUSP™
What is CUSP™? (www.cusp.umn.edu):
As the name implies, 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.
Our vision in creating this consortium is to create a global community of teaching/learning scholars whose mission is to provide a first-rate education in the field of Electric Energy Systems with an emphasis on sustainability.
CUSP™ Curriculum:
This curriculum consists of the following 3 undergraduate courses (and 5 and more graduate-level courses in Power Electronics, Electric Drives, Power Systems, Power System Protection and Electric-Machine Design being developed, partially through ONR funding):
- Power Electronics
- Electric Machines and Drives, and
- Electric Power Systems
Hallmark of CUSP™ Curriculum:
The hallmark of this curriculum is that each course offers most comprehensive resource to its user, who may decide to use it as appropriate. Please note that all the material (other than the hardware labs and the textbooks) can be downloaded free-of-charge by the consortium members.
Each course consists of the following:
(* Available only to consortium members)
- A list of Course Learning Objectives
- Textbook specifically written to fulfill these objectives
- Video clips for most lectures: approximately 30 such video clips, each an average of 15-minutes long with Captions. These high quality video clips explain the fundamentals in a rapid-fire manner, unlike the recording of in-class lectures.
- Slides used as a basis of the above video clips
- *Concept Quizzes that reinforce the fundamentals in the video
- *In-class discussion problems
- Hardware Lab with the Manual
- Software Lab with the Manual
- *Online Homework problems using Moodle (can be converted to another platform)
- *Forum for a dialog between Consortium members
Increasing Student Enrollments:
Now for several semesters, student enrollment in power-related senior-technical elective courses is averaging over 100 students per course, making power the most popular option in the Dept of ECE at the University of Minnesota.
Active Learning Classroom
CUSP™ Member Universities (order of joining):
So far, over 160 faculty from over 125 U.S. universities have joined this consortium with the vision of jointly evolve the material for the electric energy systems education curriculum that emphasizes sustainability.
- University of Minnesota - Twin cities
- University of Minnesota - Duluth
- University of North Florida
- California State University, Chico
- Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
- University of Louisville
- University of Northern Iowa
- University of the Pacific
- Northern Arizona University
- Boston University
- Penn State University - Harrisburg
- Bradley University
- Colorado State University
- Oregon State University
- South Dakota State University
- Wichita State
- Texas Christian University
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Vermont
- West Virginia University
- University of Texas at Arlington
- University of Toledo
- The University of Tennessee/Chattanooga
- Temple University
- University of Virginia
- Virginia Tech
- University of Maine
- Ohio Northern University
- Marquette University
- University of Arkansas
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- Northeastern University
- Seattle University
- Oakland University
- University of Texas at San Antonio
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Miami University
- Idaho State University
- Western Michigan University
- Youngstown State University
- Purdue University Calumet
- Christian Brothers University
- University of Bridgeport
- Gonzaga University
- Saint Louis University
- Ohio State University
- Baylor University
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
- University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
- The University of Iowa
- Western New England University
- Bucknell University
- San Diego State University
- University of New York - New Paltz
- University of Kansas
- University of Iowa
- University of Cincinnati
- Minnesota State University, Mankato
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- University of Utah
- Washington State University
- Suffolk University
- Gannon University
- University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
- Lake Superior State University
- Tuskegee University
- North Carolina State University
- California State University, Northridge
- Florida International University
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Texas A&M University
- Valparaiso University
- York College of Pennsylvania
- Howard University
- Cleveland State University
- University of Wisconsin River Falls
- Milwaukee School of Engineering
- University of New Haven
- Drexel University
- University of Florida
- Hampton University
- Binghamton University
- Montana State University
- Southern Polytechnic State University
- University of Connecticut
- Penn State University Berks Campus
- Western Kentucky University
- Dakota School of Mines and Technology
- CSU Sacramento
- Case Western Reserve University
- Clemson University
- St Cloud State University
- University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Texas Tech University
- California State University Fullerton
- Central Washington University
- Santa Clara University
- University of Dayton
- University of Evansville
- University of California, Davis
- Mississippi State University
- Syracuse University
- University of Michigan-Dearborn
- Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
- Cornell University
- Florida State University
- Boise State University
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- San Jose State University
- Tennessee Tech University
- University at Buffalo
- North Dakota State University
- University of Hawaii
- The George Washington University
- Widener University
- University of Denver
- LeTourneau University
- Michigan State University
- Grantham University
- California Baptist University
- University of Akron
- Prairie View A&M University
- California Polytechnic State University
- Clemson University
- University of Notre Dame
- Lawrence Technological University
- Michigan Tech