《电气工程专业英语》教学大纲

 

总学时：32H（理论教学32学时）

学分：2

基本面向：电气工程及其自动化专业

所属单位：电气工程与自动化系

 

一、本课程的目的、性质及任务

本课程根据电气信息及其自动化专业的特点，综合了电路原理，水电站、火电厂、变电站自动化、电机、电力系统故障、过电压、高电压、控制理论、计算机工程等领域的原理性和综述性的介绍。

课程性质：电气工程及其自动化专业的专业课。

课程目的和任务：《电气专业英语》是针对电气工程及其自动化专业学生开设的一门选修课程。主要目的是使学生通过学习与专业相关的英语知识，能够掌握基本的电气信息类词汇和科技专用术语，具备分析复杂句子结构的能力，能较熟练地阅读专业文献，在了解科技文献的表达特点等专业英语技巧的基础上，对本专业领域的技术及应用有一梗概性的了解，为毕业设计或今后从事专业研究打下坚实的基础。同时进一步培养学生电气工程学科的英文应用能力，较快适应该学科领域开展的科研与工程应用工作。

 

二、本课程的基本要求

（一）专业英语基本技巧

主要包括阅读能力与英文表达能力两方面。即：熟悉电气信息专业英语的常用句型和结构、表达方法；增加专业英语词汇量（2000个）。在大量阅读训练的基础上，再通过英汉、汉英口译和笔译英能力的训练，达到初步运用专业英语翻译和写作的能力。

（二）掌握本专业基本技术的英文表达方法

主要包括电路的基本原理、电力系统各部分的基本理论、高电压技术、控制理论以及文献检索、资料查询的基本方法等，初步形成系统的电气信息工程专业思想。

 

三、本课程与其它课程的关系（课程的前修后续关系）

前修课程：《大学英语》、《电机学》、《电路原理》、《电力系统稳态分析》、《自动控制原理》、《高电压工程》、《电力系统综合自动化》、《高电压工程》

后续课程：《发电厂电气部分》、

 

四、本课程的教学内容

Fundamentals of English for Electrical Engineering

Chapter 1 Foreword

Chapter 2 Features of English for Special Science and Technology

Chapter 3 Translation Outline of English for Special Science and Technology

Chapter 4 Science Paper Writing

 

Section I  Basic electric circuit

Chapter 1 Introduction to electric circuits

Part 1 Charge and Current

Part 2 Kirchhoff’s Current Law

Part 3 Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law

Part 4 Power and Energy

Part 5 Summary of Principal Electrical Quantities

Part 6 Ideal Voltage Source and Ideal Current Source

 

Chapter 2 Definitions of key electrical quantities

Part 1 Charge and Current

Part 2 Kirchhoff’s Current Law

Part 3 Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law

Part 4 Power and Energy

Part 5 Summary of Principal Electrical Quantities

Part 6 Ideal Voltage Source and Ideal Current Source

 

Chapter 3 resistance and Capacitance

Part 1 Ohm’s Law

Part 2 Resistors in Series and Resistors in Parallel

Part 3 Capacitance

 

Section II  The electric power system

Chapter 1 Brief Introduction to The Electric Power System

Part 1 Minimum Power system

Part 2 More Complicated Systems9

Part 3 Typical System Layout

Part 4 Auxiliary Equipment

 

Chapter 2 Faults on Power System

Part 1 Faults and its Damage

Part 2 Overload

Part 3 Various Faults

Part 4 permanent faults and temporary faults

 

Chapter 3 Fossil-Fuel Plant

Part 1 Single Stage Turbine

Part 2 Multistage Arrangements

Part 3 Generator

 

Chapter 4 Hydroelectric Power Plant

Part 1 Types of Hydroelectric Turbine

Part 2 Cross Section of a Hydroplant

Part 3 Desirable feature of hydroplant

Part 4 Nonthermal Electric Energy Production

 

Chapter 5 Substation and Its Automation

Part 1 Substation

Part 2 Control From Afar

Part 3 Coordination in substation automation system

Part 4 Local-Net Needs

Part 5 Unambiguous User-interfaces and Cost-justified Enhancement

 

Chapter 6 Transformer

Part 1 Types and Construction of Transformer

Part 2 The Ideal Transformer

Part 3 The Equivalent Circuit of a Transformer

Part 4 The Autotransformer

 

Chapter 7 Overvoltage

Part 1 Overvoltage Due to Lightning

Part 2 Switching Transients

Part 3 Contact with Circuits of Higher Voltage

 

Chapter 8 Line Insulation， Lightning and Grounding

Part 1 Electrical Insulation

Part 2 Insulating Materials

Part 3 Limitations on Design to Insulation

Part 4 Transmission Line Insulation

Part 5 Lightning Arresters

Part 6 Grounding

 

Chapter 9 System Instrumentation

Part 1 Importance of Instrumentation

Part 2 Effects without Instrumentation

Part 3 Instruments for System Monitoring

Part 4 Instrument Circuits

 

Chapter 10 RTU and SCADA

Part 1 A Typical SCADA System

Part 2 Remote Terminal Units (RTUs)

Part 3 Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)

Part 4 Three levels of Control Centers

 

Chapter 11 Voltage Regulation and Compensation

Part 1 Voltage Control System

Part 2 Exciter System Blocking Diagram

Part 3 Simplified Excitation System

Part 4 Generator Voltage Control

 

Chapter 12 Motors

Part 1 Principle of Operation of an Induction Machine

Part 2 Performance Characteristics

Part 3 Equivalent Circuit

Part 4 Synchronous Motors

Part 5 Dc Motors

 

Chapter 13 Communication in Electric Power System

Part 1 Fiber-optics Communication

Part 2 Power Line Carrier Communications

Part 3 Other Wire Communications

Part 4 Wireless Communications

 

Section III  High voltage engineering

Chapter 1 Generation of high voltages

Part 1 Direct voltages

Part 2 A.C. to D.C. Conversion

 

Chapter 2 Alternating voltages

 

Chapter 3 Overvoltages and Insulation Coordination

Part 1 Overvoltages

Part 1 The Lightning Mechanism

 

Chapter 4 Breakdown of insulation

Part 1 Gas Breakdown

Part 2 Liquid Breakdown

Part 3 Solid Breakdown (I)

Part 4 Solid Breakdown (II)

 

Section IV Control theory

Chapter 1 Control theory

Part 1 The world of control

Part 2 Feedback Control

Part 3 Transfer Function and the Laplace Transformation

 

Chapter 2 Computer Control Technology

 

Chapter 3 Fundamentals of Computer and Networks

Part 1 Organization of Computer System

Part 2 Operating System

Part 3 Networks

 

Chapter 4 The Applications of Computers

 

五、本课程的重点、难点和深广度

本课程重点是电气工程及其自动化专业综述性英文文章的阅读，并了解有关的技术背景。课程难点主要在于英文长句、复合句的结构分析，省略句及专用术语的分析和阅读理解，专业词汇的积累，以及前修课程中涉及专业技术的内容有限，学生理解起来有一定难度。

 

六、学时分配

 

七、教学建议

本课程实际上是对电气信息专业理论的英文普及教育，由于课程与某些专业基础课同学期开设，为便于学生真正理解文章的思想和主要意图要求，应对文章结构、复杂句子进行必要的分析讲解。

要注意吸收新的科技动态，在教学实践中根据实际情况加减阅读内容，做到阅读材料的经常翻新，对学生课外阅读应作严格的要求，并有相应的作业量，与课堂提问相结合。在教学手段上建议采用电化教学手段，培养学生利用计算机辅助学习的能力。