Development of Lab Activities for an ECE Undergraduate Renewable Energy Course

This paper presents the development of lab activities for integration of renewable energy into electrical power systems. ECE undergraduate students can take this course in their senior year as a technical elective. This course covers variable topics including integrating of different types of renewable energy resources into electrical power systems, the basic concepts of electrical power system, and power electronics application in renewable energy technology. Hands-on experiments have been designed as the integrated part of the course. The lab activities consists of five experiments covering wind, solar, fuel cell, a stand-alone electric power system with solar and wind, and power electronics converter applications. The experiments are designed to be focused on the ECE aspect of the renewable energy and most of the experiments are openended.