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 releva nt advanced technologies and to complement the research efforts on-goi ng at the government laboratories. The move toward incorporating more- electric technology into naval combatant shipboard power systems and t he requisite analysis of such finite-inertia, stiffly-connected system s have driven the development of a program that intermixes power elect ronics, electric machines, and microprocessors. Through work emphasizi ng analysis, hands-on hardware investigation and simulation, the stude nts are exposed to the diverse issues encountered in power system rese arch. The students are also presented unique opportunities to interact on-site with various government laboratory sponsors to further draw t he connection between theory and hardware implementation.