Northwest Workforce Training on Smart Grid > Undergraduate Courses > U5
Course Description
Goals
To introduce students to
- Fundamental principles of smart grid operation and control
- Understanding of digital systems for smart grid including sensors, communication network, computation, data management and cyber security
- Understanding of interdependencies and interdisciplinary nature of smart grid
Learning Objectives
At the end of this course, you will be able to
- Understand the basic principles of smart grid components and operation
- Understand the principles of communication network, data management, distributed computing and cyber security in context of smart grid
- Critically analyze the interdependencies of related infrastructure in smart grid to sense, communicate, compute and control in secure way
- Apply the learnt interdisciplinary principles in building smart grid
Textbooks and References
Smart Electric Grid: Lecture Materials and Web Material
Communication: Kurose and Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 5th edition, Addison-Wesley. (To minimize cost the Kindle edition is recommended)
Data Management and Computing: George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg and Gordon Blair, Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Fifth Edition, published by Addison Wesley, May 2011
Cyber Security: Lecture Materials and Web Material
Course Prerequisites by Topic
Basics of Electrical Power systems
Course Topics
- Smart Electric Grid Overview (3 weeks)
- Week 1: Overview and Introduction to Smart grid
- Week 2: Sense, communicate, compute and control in secure way
- Week 3: Performance objective, SCADA, NERC/FERC, operational standard
- Communication (3 weeks)
- Week 1: Layered communication model, physical & link layers, network layer
- Week 2: Transport layer: datagram and stream protocols; Glue protocols: ARP, DNS, Routing
- Week 3: MPLS; Power system application-layer protocols: SCADA, ICCP, IEC 61850, C37.118; multi-cast and its uses
- Power System Data Management and Computation (3 weeks)
- Week 1: Utility IT infrastructures; control center structure & software; CIMs, IEC 61850 and 61970
- Week 2: Fault-tolerant computing basics; distributed computing basics
- Week 3: Distributed computing architectures; middleware; WAMS data delivery requirements and mechanisms
- Cyber security (3 weeks)
- Week 1: Basic concepts and applications of cryptography, software vulnerabilities
- Week 2: Malware, network attacks, web security, Stuxnet
- Week 3: Network protection, security testing, security practices, governmental efforts
- Linking all topics together (1-2 weeks)
- Overall system architecture, WAMS application, NERC CIP standards, Case studies
Course Structure
- Each lecture is approximately 75 minutes
- You are expected to complete about 26 lectures
- After each module, you will be assigned a homework
Computer Resources
Lecture material and homework assignments are posted on the class web page
Grading
50% on the homework
50% on the final exam
