Increasing Interest of Power Engineering Students with Powerworld@ Simulator and Soft Computing Techniques

Abstract

Graduation level students are dealing with old available motors and wiring systems in laboratories. This results into low interest of students and narrow focus of usual power engineering. Our students have there on requirement and it is clear that the focus of power engineering education needs to be increase considerably to contain these needs. So the need of improvement of educational lessons is demand of today. The indicated control on the needs of industry suggest that the syllabus in the undergraduate and graduate programs should be thoroughly restructured and brought into line with power engineering needs. Using soft computing will make the courses attractive to the students through the use of computer ready classrooms, interactive problem solving and multimedia presentation. These methods will improve teaching efficiency and increase student interest. Key Words: power engineering, simulator, education, soft computing