A novel Power Systems program at the Naval Postgraduate School

The Power Systems program at the Naval Postgraduate School is a unique academic endeavor which seeks to both educate Navy officers in relevant advanced technologies and to complement the research efforts on-going at the government laboratories. The move toward incorporating more-electric technology into naval combatant shipboard power systems and the requisite analysis of such finite-inertia, stiffly-connected systems have driven the development of a program that intermixes power electronics, electric machines, and microprocessors. Through work emphasizing analysis, hands-on hardware investigation and simulation, the students are exposed to the diverse issues encountered in power system research. The students are also presented unique opportunities to interact on-site with various government laboratory sponsors to further draw the connection between theory and hardware implementation.