The laboratory is used for teaching and scientific research purposes. Laboratory exercises and consultations for bachelor's and master's students at the Department of Electrical Power Engineering are held here. The technical equipment is mainly focused on automated electrical installation technology and systems such as KNX/EIB, the use of database systems in electrical engineering, diagnostic methods in high-voltage insulation systems, and other areas of electrical engineering that require computing technology. The laboratory is equipped with 12 student client stations and one teacher computer station. The laboratory is complemented by modern interactive presentation technology in the form of an interactive touch board enabling face-to-face teaching as well as remote presentation and teaching, and a wide-angle projector with a camera for scanning printed materials.
Subjects and learning outcomes:
- Bachelor's degree: Subject: Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering (Basic knowledge and skills in the field of DC circuit design and technical documentation creation)
- Bachelor's degree: Subject: Non-traditional energy sources (Familiarizing students with PV-SOL software for the design of photovoltaic systems, which is used for the optimal design and placement of photovoltaic systems, assessment of solar radiation using the DIalux program to determine lighting conditions for photovoltaic systems)
- Engineering studies: Subject: Automated Electrical Installation Systems (Basic knowledge and skills in the design and programming of automated electrical installation systems)
- Engineering studies: Subject Database Systems – SQL Oracle (Basic knowledge and skills in the design of relational database systems with a focus on use in the field of electrical energy),
- Engineering studies: Subject: Electromagnetic Compatibility (basic knowledge and skills in the field of EMC technical equipment and biological systems, the origin and propagation of electromagnetic interference, elimination of the impact of interference on electronic equipment, the effects of impulse phenomena in low-voltage networks on electronic equipment, principles of printed circuit board design with regard to electromagnetic immunity, methods of shielding and grounding electronic equipment).
- Engineering studies: Subject: Overvoltage in electrical networks (acquiring knowledge about the occurrence of overvoltage in electrical networks for various operating conditions, using the correct terminology and symbols, acquiring professional skills in the use of PC technology and software to solve overvoltage occurring in operation using the EMTP ATP simulation program)
- Engineering studies: Subject: Quality and reliability of electricity supply (basic knowledge of electricity quality indicators, based on problem-oriented examples, acquiring knowledge about the occurrence and consequences of deteriorated electricity quality and about the possibilities of improving it) Students will also gain knowledge in the field of electricity supply reliability, methods of its calculation, and methods of its evaluation.
- Engineering studies: Subject: Stability of electricity transmission (Extended knowledge in the field of calculation, analysis, and interpretation of results from the stability of electricity transmission. Competencies in the use of the Matlab software tool for system stability calculations).
- Engineering studies: Subject: Automated Electrical Installation Systems (Basic knowledge and skills in the field of programming automated electrical installation systems. Competence in using the software tools ETS (Engineering Tool Software) and iDM3 (iNELS3 Designer & Manager).)
The software equipment of the stations meets the requirements of the teaching areas and is updated annually with new versions of applications and in accordance with the current requirements for the subjects taught. Each workstation has professional and full versions of applications for setting up automated electrical installation systems (INELS, KNX/EIB – ETS application), a database and web server, Matlab and Scilab calculation applications, ProgeCAD design systems, gEDA, Dialux and PV-SOL design systems, EMTP ATP, Matlab, Octave, and FEMM simulation programs, applications for diagnosing high-voltage insulation systems of electrical power equipment using recovered voltages, applications for simulations in the field of lighting technology, and others.
