Labs for EGN 3375 Electromechanical Energy Systems at University of South Florida

This paper describes the labs designed for University of South Florida (USF)’s undergraduate course EGN 3375 Electromechanical Energy Systems. We employ PSCAD, OPAL-RT’s RT-Lab real-time digital simulator, and National Instruments’ (NI’s) control toolkit: general purpose inverter controller (GPIC), single board RIO (sbRIO) with LabVIEW as GUI. The labs offer students in-depth understanding of Faraday’s Law, the key principle for transformers and rotating machines. The labs also expose students to the state-of-the-art simulation and control tools and offer students hands-on experiences.