AC 2009-443: DEVELOPING WIND-POWER SIMULATIONS AND LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS FOR COURSES IN RENEWABLE-ENERGY SYSTEMS David Burnham, University of Texas, Austin David J. Burnham earned his B.S degree in Electrical Engineering from Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College in 2003. He expects to earn his MSE degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in May 2009. He is a research assistant working on the project described in the paper. Jules Campbell, University of Texas, Austin Jules Campbell is a PhD candidate at UT Austin. He received his BSEE degree from Washington University in St. Louis and MSEE degree from UT Austin in May 2008. His primary interests lie in the development of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Systems and Technologies, Power Electronics and Mixed Signal Circuit Design techniques. Surya Santoso, University of Texas, Austin Dr. Santoso received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Satya Wacana Christian University, Indonesia, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992, 1994, and 1996, respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 1997 to 2003, he was a Senior Power Systems/Consulting Engineer with Electrotek Concepts, Knoxville, TN. Since 2003, he has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. His current research interests include power system analysis, modeling, and simulation, and impacts of wind power on power systems. He is the coauthor of Electrical Power Systems Quality (McGraw-Hill, 2002). Arturo Compean, University of Texas, Pan American Arturo Compean earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering in 2004. He expects to earn his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science at University of Texas Pan-American. His interests lie in the development of nuclear energy efficiency and renewable energy systems, power electronics, and mixed signal circuit design techniques. He is a research assistant working on the project described in the paper. Jaime Ramos, University of Texas, Pan American Dr. Ramos earned his MSE and Ph.D degrees from Stanford University in 1972 and 1976, respectively, all in electrical engineering. He teaches electrical engineering and renewable energy courses at the University of Texas at Pan American since 2005. He was a professor and researcher in a number of Mexican universities since 1977. His research interests include energy conversion and power system analysis. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Page 14.461.1