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Electrical Power Engineering Fundamentals
Engineering & Social Sciences Program
Madrid, Spain
Dates: early Sep 2025 - mid Dec 2025
Electrical Power Engineering Fundamentals
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Electrical Engineering
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 13977
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 200
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
Prerequisites: Students should have completed their first year. Special stress should be put into Calculus I and II, Linear Algebra and Physics Complements.
DESCRIPTION
1. Introduction
1.1. The power system
1.2. General concepts
1.3. Kirchhoff's Laws
2. Direct current
2.1. Resistance and generators
2.2. Series and parallel associations of passive and active circuit elements
2.3. Mesh and node analysis
2.4. Theorems (Superposition, Thévenin and Norton)
3. Alternating Current
3.1. Coils and capacitors. Transients.
3.2. Waves and phasors
3.3. Impedance and admitance
3.4. Solving circuits in the frequency domain
3.5. Power in alternating current
4. Balanced three-phase circuits
4.1. General concepts
4.2. Phase and line magnitudes
4.3. Single-phase equivalent
4.4. Three-phase power and reactive power compensation
4.5. Methods of three-phase power measurement
5. Analysis of first-order transient circuits
1.1. The power system
1.2. General concepts
1.3. Kirchhoff's Laws
2. Direct current
2.1. Resistance and generators
2.2. Series and parallel associations of passive and active circuit elements
2.3. Mesh and node analysis
2.4. Theorems (Superposition, Thévenin and Norton)
3. Alternating Current
3.1. Coils and capacitors. Transients.
3.2. Waves and phasors
3.3. Impedance and admitance
3.4. Solving circuits in the frequency domain
3.5. Power in alternating current
4. Balanced three-phase circuits
4.1. General concepts
4.2. Phase and line magnitudes
4.3. Single-phase equivalent
4.4. Three-phase power and reactive power compensation
4.5. Methods of three-phase power measurement
5. Analysis of first-order transient circuits