Instructor

Prof. Bandyopadhyay Santanu, Prof. Suneet Singh

Semester

Spring ‘20

Course Difficulty

Course content is simple and all exams are open book open notes. Comprehensive tutorial sets are provided and exams have questions along similar lines.

Time Commitment Required

No additional time commitment required

Grading Policy and Statistics

Bell curve grading

Attendance Policy

No attendance policy but there are quizzes on Moodle post few of the lectures.

Pre-requisites

Thermodynamics and heat transfer

Evaluation Scheme

Evaluation is combination of assignment, in class quizzes, midsem and endsem

Topics Covered in the Course

Course covers power plant load and economics, power generation, power plant reliability, power plant dispatch, forecasting and demand planning.

Teaching Style

Slide based teaching

Tutorials/Assignments/Projects

Most tutorials are treated as assignments and we have to submit the solutions.

Feedback on Exams

Post lecture quiz: Small question on material covered in last two classes.
Midsem and endsem: Set of small to medium length questions based. Mostly based on simple concepts and formulas, which can be referred to in provided slides. (Open book open notes exam)

When to take this course?

Ideal time is post third year.

Review By: Yash Mandhana