Wrocław, Poland

Power Engineering

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⇑Power Engineering at PWr

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
University website: pwr.edu.pl/en

⇑Test: Is Power engineering the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. A grid operator wants to connect a large wind farm to a weak part of the network. What do you analyse first?

2. Your Master’s thesis could model how battery storage affects grid frequency. How do you feel about that?

3. A plant manager asks you to cut energy losses in a substation. How do you approach it?

4. The programme is taught in English, and your group includes engineers from many countries used to different grid standards. How do you see that?

5. How comfortable are you with differential equations and numerical methods applied to power systems?

6. A blackout hits part of a city after a protection relay trips. You join the investigation team. What do you do?

7. You’re asked to lead a team designing a solar farm with battery storage. How do you handle it?

8. How closely do you follow developments such as smart grids, green hydrogen or offshore wind?

9. Local residents are protesting against a planned high-voltage line. What role do you see for yourself?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Power engineering?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Engineering
Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application. See glossary of engineering.
Power Engineering
Power engineering, also called power systems engineering, is a subfield of electrical engineering that deals with the generation, transmission, distribution and utilization of electric power, and the electrical apparatus connected to such systems. Although much of the field is concerned with the problems of three-phase AC power – the standard for large-scale power transmission and distribution across the modern world – a significant fraction of the field is concerned with the conversion between AC and DC power and the development of specialized power systems such as those used in aircraft or for electric railway networks. Power engineering draws the majority of its theoretical base from electrical engineering.
Engineering
Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.
John Prebble, in Disaster at Dundee, 1956. p. 16
Engineering
Engineering: The art of organizing and directing men, and of controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.
Henry Gordon Stott. Presidential address, 1908, to American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Cited in: Halbert Powers Gillette (1920) Engineering and Contracting. Vol. 54. p. 97
Engineering
When I looked at the science of engineering and saw that it had disappeared after its ancient heritage, that its masters have perished, and that their memories are now forgotten, I worked my wits and thoughts in secrecy about philosophical shapes and figures, which could move the mind, with effort, from nothingness to being and from idleness to motion. And I arranged these shapes one by one in drawings and explained them
Al-Muradi, The Book of Secrets in the Results of Ideas, 11th century; Translated and cited at leonardo3.net/bookofsecrets/index, 2015
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