ECE 667Sustainable Distributed Power Generation

Level: Graduate
Faculty: Engineering
Last listed: Spring 2022

No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s calendars from Fall 2006 (as far back as the archived Graduate Calendars go) to Spring 2022. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.

In the course catalog from Winter 2020 to Spring 2022; Open Data has no classes for it in that time.

This course covers topics related to sustainable and clean energy resources; distributed generation and utility interfacing. The following topics are covered: Wind power generators; construction; operation theory, modeling and analysis. Wind turbine interfacing techniques with the grid. Photovoltaic energy sources; construction, modeling, loading characteristics and interfacing requirements. Fuel cells; types, construction, modeling and characteristics, operation theory and interfacing requirement. Distributed generation concept; Barriers to DG interfacing; Reactive power control applications using the DG interfacing; Ancillary services supplied by DG. System protection requirements with DG.

In today’s calendar

ECE 763 lists it as an antirequisite

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

2 posts and comments in 2 threads mention ECE 667, April 2017 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Fall 2017

Oct 28, 2017 Any way to disable UWCourseLinker from posting? 16 points, 26 comments

“posting a reply to my comment I find the bot annoying.”

u/Jackhofmann: “PSYCH 483 PSYCH 484 PSYCH 485 PSYCH 486 PSYCH 490R PSYCH 499A PSYCH 499B PSYCH 499C PSYCH 621 PSYCH 630 PSYCH 677A PSYCH 704A PSYCH 704B PSYCH 707 PSYCH 710 PSYCH 714 PSYCH 717 PSYCH 720A PSYCH 721A …”

u/Jackhofmann: “… ECE 637 ECE 639 ECE 650 ECE 651 ECE 658 ECE 6604PD ECE 6610PD ECE 6616PD ECE 662 ECE 664 ECE 667 ECE 671 ECE 675 ECE 682 ECE 725 ECE 730 ECE 750 ECE 770 ECON 101 ECON 102 ECON 120W ECON 140W ECON 201 ECON 206 ECON 207 ECON 211 ECON 212 ECON 220 ECON 221 ECON 223W ECON 231 ECON …”

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Winter 2017

Apr 25, 2017 Has anybody taken ECE 463 as an elective? 1 point, 1 comment

“Planning to take this in Spring 2017, how useful is this course in the industry, how the labs are, what is the course load like, easy/hard?”

u/bikiboko: “… In my 4th year, I took ECE 665 and ECE 667. …”