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Load flow studies on stand alone microgrid system in Ranau, Sabah
This paper presents the power flow or load flow analysis of Ranau microgrid, a
standalone microgrid in the district of Ranau,West Coast Division of Sabah. Power
flow for IEEE 9 bus also performed and analyzed. Power flow is define as an
important tool involving numerical analysis applied to power system. Power flow
uses simplified notation such as one line diagram and per-unit system focusing on
voltages, voltage angles, real power and reactive power. To achieved that purpose,
this research is done by analyzing the power flow analysis and calculation of all the
elements in the microgrid such as generators, buses, loads, transformers,
transmission lines using the Power Factory DIGSilent 14 software to calculate the
power flow. After the analysis and calculations, the results were analysed and
compared
Creativity Training for Future Engineers: Preliminary Results from an Educative Experience
Due in part to the increased pace of cultural and environmental change, as
well as increased competition due to globalization, innovation is become one of
the primary concerns of the 21st century. We present an academic course
designed to develop cognitive abilities related to creativity within an
engineering education context, based on a conceptual framework rooted in
cognitive sciences. The course was held at \'Ecole Polytechnique de Montr\'eal
(\'EPM), a world renowned engineering school and a pillar in Canada's
engineering community. The course was offered twice in the 2014-2015 academic
year and more than 30 students from the graduate and undergraduate programs
participated. The course incorporated ten pedagogical strategies, including
serious games, an observation book, individual and group projects, etc., that
were expected to facilitate the development of cognitive abilities related to
creativity such as encoding, and associative analytical thinking. The CEDA
(Creative Engineering Design Assessment) test was used to measure the students'
creativity at the beginning and at the end of the course. Field notes were
taken after each of the 15 three-hour sessions to qualitatively document the
educative intervention along the semester and students gave anonymous written
feedback after completing the last session. Quantitative and qualitative
results suggest that an increase in creativity is possible to obtain with a
course designed to development cognitive abilities related to creativity. Also,
students appreciated the course, found it relevant, and made important,
meaningful learnings regarding the creative process, its cognitive mechanism
and the approaches available to increase it.Comment: 10 page
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