Basics - The danger most people associate with electrical systems is shock: You touch a wire and a metal frame and experience a jolt of...

Transformers are commonly specified and ordered based on a few key parameters, including the primary and secondary voltages, the apparent...

Basics - Heat transfer isn't what comes to most people's mind when they hear "electrical engineering", but for power systems engineers...

Electrical power systems engineers, especially those working on systems at the distribution level, are generally required to complete...

Battery energy storage systems (BESS) have long been held as a vital part of the shift to renewable energy. Renewables like wind and...

Too many times have I heard an engineer (or student) tell me, "I like engineering because things are black and white. You can always find...

In the real world, electrical engineers don't work in isolation. For better or worse, there are always overlaps of engineering...

General - Capacitors are commonly used as standalone devices in industrial, transmission, and distribution power systems to compensate...

Ladder logic is the dominant representation of controls in power systems. Learn more about ladder logic, relaying, and boolean algebra here

"Electrical engineers design to standards". This was a phrase one of my college professors shared with me in a professional practice...