| Course Calendar |
| Class | Date | Topic | Reading | Assignment |
| 1 | W 21 Aug | Syllabus, Course Overview, FACTS Concept. | Chapter 1 | . |
| 2 | F 23 Aug | Power Flow in a Meshed System | . | . |
| 3 | M 26 Aug | Power Flow Control in Transmission System | . | . |
| 4 | W 28 Aug | Mechanical and Electrical Models of Synchronous Generators | . | . |
| 5 | F 30 Aug | Post-Fault Network Stability | . | . |
| . | M 2 Sep | Labor Day - HOLIDAY | No Class | . |
| 6 | W 4 Sep | Shunt Connected Compensators | . | Paper Assignment, due 10/18 |
| 7 | F 6 Sep | Series Connected Compensators | . | . |
| 8 | M 9 Sep | Shunt-Series Connected and Other Compensators | . | Homework #1, due 09/16. |
| 9 | W 11 Sep | Engineering in a Global Community | ||
| 10 | F 13 Sep | Voltage Source Converters | Chapter 3 | |
| 11 | M 16 Sep | Voltage Source Converters | . | . |
| 12 | W 18 Sep | PWM Methods | . | . |
| 13 | F 20 Sep | Space Vector PWM | . | Homework #2, due 09/27. |
| 14 | M 23 Sep | Current Source Inverters | Chapter 4 | Homework #3,Discuss Fig. 3.6 on page 84 of text due 09/30. |
| 15 | W 25 Sep | Diode Rectifiers, Single Phase Thyristor Valves | . | . |
| 16 | F 27 Sep | Three-Phase Thyristor Circuits | . | Homework #4, Mohan Text 6.1, 6.12, 6.20, 6.21 due 10/04. |
| 17 | M 30 Sep | System Inductance Effect on Voltage Waveform with Thyristor Circuits | . | . |
| 18 | W 2 Oct | Midpoint and End-of-Line Voltage Support | . | . |
| 19 | F 4 Oct | Transient Stability Improvement | . | . |
| 20 | M 7 Oct | Power Oscillation Damping | . | . |
| 21 | W 9 Oct | EXAM #1 | . | . |
| . | F 11 Oct | FALL BREAK | No Classes | . |
| 22 | M 14 Oct | No Class. | . | . |
| 23 | W 16 Oct | No Class. | . | . |
| 24 | F 18 Oct | Thyristor Controlled Reactors | Chapter 5 | PAPER DUE TODAY. |
| 25 | M 21 Oct | Thyristor Switched Capacitors | . | . |
| 26 | W 23 Oct | Review Exam #1. | . | . |
| 27 | F 25 Oct | TSC-TCR Combinations | . | . |
| 28 | M 28 Oct | Switching Converter Var Generators | . | . |
| 29 | W 30 Oct | Non-Active Power Definitions | . | . |
| 30 | F 1 Nov | SVC and STATCOM | . | . |
| 31 | M 4 Nov | SVC with Cascaded Multilevel Inverter | F. Z. Peng, et. al, "A Multilevel Voltage-Source Inverter with Separate DC Sources for Static Var Generation," IEEE Trans. Industry Applications, vol. 32, no. 5, Sept/Oct 1996, pp. 1130-1137. | . |
| 32 | W 6 Nov | Required Capacitance in Multilevel Inverter | . | . |
| 33 | F 8 Nov | Dynamic Control of SVC Using Cascade Multilevel Inverters | F. Z. Peng, J. S. Lai, "Dynamic Performance and Control of a Static VAr Generator Using Cascade Multilevel Inverters," IEEE Trans. Industry Applications, vol. 33, no. 3, May/June 1997, pp. 748-755 | . |
| 34 | M 11 Nov | Decoupling control of real and reactive power | . | Homework #5, due 11/18. |
| 35 | W 13 Nov | Harmonic Compensation with Multilevel Converter | F. Z. Peng, "A Power Line Conditioner Using Cascade Multilevel Inverters for Distribution Systems," IECON, 1997, pp. 1316-1321. | . |
| 36 | F 15 Nov | Career in Power Engineering | . | . |
| 37 | M 18 Nov | Economics of Power Transmission | . | . |
| 38 | W 20 Nov | Active and Passive Filtering Concepts | F. Z. Peng, "Harmonic Sources and Filtering Approaches," IEEE Industry Applications Magazine, July/August 2001, pp. 18-25. | . |
| 39 | F 22 Nov | Hybrid Filter Connections | . | . |
| 40 | M 24 Nov | Student Paper Presentations, 1:30 - 5:00 |
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| 41 | W 26 Nov | No Lecture | . | . |
| . | F 28 Nov | Thanksgiving - Holiday | No Classes | . |
| 42 | M 2 Dec | Review Homework #4, review for final exam | . | Last Lecture |
| . | W 4 Dec | Study Day | No Classes | . |
| . | F 6 Dec | Study Day | No Classes | . |
| 43 | M 9 Dec | FINAL EXAM | 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | . |