Electrical Power Systems

Entry requirements

At least a lower second-class Honours degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering or Physics from a university of high international standing

Months of entry

September

Course content

This course will give you the skills and specialist knowledge required to significantly enhance your career prospects in the electrical power industry. This programme will develop your power engineering skills through expert teaching and extensive research work undertaken in collaboration with power industry partners.

• Control concepts and methods
• Advanced energy conversion systems and power electronic applications
• Advanced power electronic technologies for electrical power networks – HVDC and FACTS
• Electrical power system engineering - using state-of-the-art computational tools and methods, and design of sustainable electrical power systems and networks
• Economic analysis of electrical power systems and electricity markets

Compulsory Modules

• Introductory Module for Electrical Power Systems
• Power System Economics
• Intelligent Systems
• Power System Operation and Control
• HVDC and FACTS
• MSc Project

Optional Modules

• Small embedded systems
• Embedded Digital Signal
• ProcessingComputer and Comms Networks

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If you can’t make it to one of our on-campus open days, our virtual open days run regularly throughout the year. For more information, please visit: www.pg.bham.ac.uk

Fees and funding

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www.birmingham.ac.uk/pgfunding

Qualification and course duration

MSc