Kategori: Engineering

An introductory course on basic concepts of voltage, current flow and resistance leads to the analysis of series, parallel and series-parallel circuits. To provide an introduction to sophomores in the field of electrical engineering to the fundamental concepts in the sub-area of electrical circuits. This course will be one of five fundamentals courses required of all electrical engineering majors.

Requirement: Basic introduction to electrical engineering and electrical circuit concepts.

Course Structure

Circuit Analysis

Nodal and Mesh

Linearity and Superposition

Source Transformations

Review of Inductor and Capacitor as Circuit Elements

Source-free RL and RC Circuits

Transient Response

Unit-Step

Forcing Forced Response, the RLC Circuit

Sinusoidal Forcing

Complex Forcing

Phasors and Complex Impedance

Sinusoidal Steady State Response

Average Power

Introduction to Polyphase Circuits

Mutual Inductance, Linear and Ideal Transformers, Circuits with Mutual Inductance

Frequency Response of Series/Parallel Resonances

High-Q Circuits

Complex Frequency

Two Port Networks

This course aims to improve management capabilities for energy professionals, engineers, and any graduate level delegates having a background or interest on energy related issues. It wants to provide an interdisciplinary knowledge and education platform for decision-makers in companies, government and non-governmental organizations to analyze and act in an environmentally and engineering sound pro-active way. It wants to enlarge the scope of knowledge and skills of participants, contributing to capacity building in the field of sustainable development.

Scope of the Program

It focuses on some key principles to achieve course objectives mainly but not limited to;

• Emerging energy technologies
• New trends in energy infrastructure integration
• Energy consumption reduction methods from person to national wide perspectives
• Energy cost reduction principles by lowering consumption and evaluation of available technologies
• Organization of management resources
• Methods and principles to reduce the energy footprint on environment

Advantages

This program provides not only a conceptual perspective for the audience but also practical information by providing working solutions and sharing gained experiences. This program welcomes any international student and it provides excellent environment for knowledge and experience share within a harmonized group of representative delegates from companies, government and non-governmental organizations.   This program is run by experienced lecturers having strong background on energy, environment, industry, management and engineering; working together on cutting-edge research, innovations and inspiring education for more than 10,000 students.

List of Offered Short Courses

Energy and Environment

Energy Systems Management

Oil and Gas Distribution Systems and Management

Bioenergy

Clean and Renewable Energy Systems and Management

Energy Conversion Practices and Future

Power Electronics for Energy Systems

Energy Distribution and Smart Grid Management

Project Management

Management and Organization

Risk Assesment

Occupational Health and Safety

This program covers general aspects of transmission and generation the planning and design of modern electrical distribution systems. One may also find information about computer based planning as part of modern planning reliability.

Who should attend: Anyone who has responsibility for the planning, architecture,  design, construction, operation, and line and substation technicians and engineers

Course Structure

Introduction to Electrical Power Systems

General Principles of Planning

Distribution Network Planing and Design

Introduction to Methodologies

Strategies of Power System Distribution Systems

Introduction to Distribution Systems and Power Circuit Analysis

Introduction to Distribution Transformers

Grounding and Protection

Overhead and Underground Distribution Systems

Distribution Surge Protection

Switching Rates

Introduction to Engineering and Design

Distribution Planning and Reliability Assessment

Basic Concepts of Low-voltage Secondary Networks

Introduction to  Power Distribution System Economics

Introduction to  Distribution Automation Analysis for the Smart Grid

Safety Aspects

This course introduces concepts of and computations related to electricity. Emphasis is placed on circuits, components, operation of test equipment; and other related topics. Upon completion, students should be able to construct, verify, and analyze simple DC/AC circuits.

Course Structure

Residential Wiring

Industrial Wiring

Motors and Controls

Electrical Codes

Software for Technicians

Introduction to PLC

Circuit Analysis

Instrumentation

Electrical Maintenance

Photovoltaic System Technology

Advanced Photovoltaic System Designs

PLC Applications

This course benificial for anyone who has a need to work with electrical systems in their work. Aimed to provide one with needed knowledge in the manufacturing or services sector who seeks to understand the fundamentals of electrical systems and develop their skills to work on industrial production equipment.

 

Course Structure

Basic theory of electricity

Basic units of electricity

Understanding conductors and insulators

Resistance in series & parallel

Basics of electrostatics

Construction of a capacitor

Capacitors in series and parallel

Magnetic fields & electrical conductors

What is electrical inductance?

The theory of step down and step up transformers

Testing transformers

Relays and contactors

Test contactors and relays.

What is an ac sine wave ?

Understand Peak, RMS values

Electrical frequencies

Principles of variable speed motor drives

Principles of Measuring

Use of an oscilloscope

Use of a function generator

Digital and analogue multimeters

This course will benefit all levels of professional in an electrical installation. It will enable them to understand operation, maintenance and troubleshooting of motors and drives.

Course Structure

Basic Electric Motor Controls

Troubleshooting and Maintenance of Motors

Troubleshooting and Maintenance of Drives

Protection of Motors and Drives

This program designed for  who needs to carry out maintenance activities on electrical equipment. Also non electrical staff who may be carrying out mechanical maintenance or servicing of industrial machinery and equipment. It mainly focus on principles that have real application, particularly for fault finding scenarios with stimulated real working examples.

 

Course Structure

Basic Principles

Electrical Circuits

Tools and Equipment

DC Supplies

AC Supplies -Single and Three Phase

Motors

Components

Control Systems

Understanding Electrical Diagrams

Fault Finding

Safe Working Practices

Electrical Isolation Procedures

Grounding and bonding systems are safer from electric shock. They fires by limiting the voltage imposed by lightning, line surges, or unintentional contact with HV lines as well as a ground fault. Our program will help you to understand the subject of grounding and bonding from its basic principles to the most common applications in the industry today.

Course Structure

Identify safety hazards created by ineffective grounding systems

Identify common types of grounding electrodes

Advantages/disadvantages of various grounding electrodes

Explain the purpose of impedance or resistance ground-fault detection systems

Explain equipment utilization for grounding and bonding systems

Requirements for use of an isolated grounding system

How to properly connect these electrodes into the grounding system

Types of bonds that are acceptable and where to use them

Resistance-to-Ground testing

Soil Resistivity testing

Human safety issues in high-voltage environments

Basic principles of grounding of medium and high voltage electrical systems

Safe working conditions

Designing grounding grid for medium and high voltage

Measuring of ground resistance

Protection of substations from lightning energy

The course program has been aimed to provide participants with basic troubleshooting techniques, with having this knowledge will help each technician develop confidence and professional enthusiasm, therefore, increasing their efficiency. Technicians with good troubleshooting skills are very importante to get operations up and running in the shortest period of time. Course program covers an analytical method for troubleshooting electrical power distribution system, electrical control systems, electrical motors, transformers and switchgear. Also the participants will be given real case scenarios as classroom exercise to reinforce theory.

Course Structure

Basic Troubleshooting Skills

Safety in troubleshooting

Electrical drawings

Use of testers

Analytical troubleshooting

Troubleshooting Electrical Equipment

Troubleshooting power distribution

Troubleshooting motors

Troubleshooting VFD

Troubleshooting lighting systems

Audience

Designed for electrical technicians, maintenance planners, and supervisors with operation and maintenance responsibilities in an industrial plant.

Prerequisites

Anyone taking this course should familiar with electrical installations in an industrial setting.

This course designed to help anyone who has a need to work with electirical motors and motor control circuits  and  it maintenance workers to identify what the real issue is when a motor fail and how to prevent it from happening it again.

Course Structure

Motor selection, maintenance, testing & replacement

Safety issues when troubleshooting or replacing motors

Procedures for replacing a motor

Motor maintenance

Fundamentals of control circuits

Motor drives and special control circuit applications