Electrical Power Basics & Intro to Power Electronics

Electrical Power Basics: Provides an overview of shipboard electrical power systems and electrical machines in a simplified manner suitable for all engineers and managers interested in electrical power. This course will cover traditional as well as new and emerging electrical equipment in the marine industry. Although the content will focus around shipboard systems, the course will be useful to a wide variety of professionals working wherever electrical power is use e.g. on ships, shipyards, inland factories, or offshore and far-shore installations (oil and gas rigs, wind energy farms, etc.)

Intro to Power Electronics: No other technology has brought a greater change in the electrical power industry than the power electronics that have been developed over the last few decades. Power electronics improve energy efficiency and provide flexibility in operation. For that reason, power electronics dominate electric propulsion equipment in ships with electrical power plant approaching 100 megawatts. Intro to Power Electronics will be useful to a wide variety of professionals working wherever electrical power is used or generated e.g. on ships, shipyards, inland factories, or offshore and far-shore renewable power plants extracting energy from the marine currents and the ocean winds.

Questions?

Please contact ASNE Senior Manager for Education and Business Development, Ms. Erica Smedley Cox, at (703) 836-6727 or ecox@navalengineers.org

Speaker and Presenter Information

Mukund R. Patel, PhD, PE,

Tenured Professor, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

Dr. Patel began teaching in 1997. He holds a BE, ME, and PhD degree in electrical power from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. He has published 50 research papers and two books “Shipboard Electrical Power Systems” and “Shipboard Propulsion, Power Electronics and Ocean Energy,” both published by CRC Press. From 1967 to 1997, he worked in companies such as GE (Principal Engineer), Westinghouse Research Center (Fellow Engineer), Lockheed Martin Space Division (Senior Staff Engineer) and Siemens (Development Manager). He has taught 1-day and 3-day courses in electrical power at GE, IEEE, NASA and several corporations. Dr. Patel is a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (UK), Senior Life Member of IEEE, Associate Fellow of AIAA, Associate Editor of Solar Energy Journal. He is a Professional Electrical Engineer in Pennsylvania and Charter Mechanical Engineer in UK.