Hugo N. Villegas Pico's Teaching

Teaching Statement

I consider that teaching is the most gratifying and fulfilling component of a faculty position. I believe that teaching can influence people in a positive way and help a knowledge-based society move forward. My mission as a faculty is to enlighten students so that they can contribute with original and outstanding work.

Courses

• EE 559/459: Electromechanical Wind Energy Conversion and Grid Integration, F2020, F2021

• EE 456: Power System Analysis I, F2019

• EE 457: Power System Analysis II, S2020, S2021

Teaching Style

I resort to: (i) first principles to derive abstract models of power devices and systems and (ii) to mathematical tools to study their performance with fair rigor. I believe students’ learning benefits when the models of power devices and systems are justified from first principles, e.g., employing Newton's, Ampere's, and Faraday's laws. Further, this approach can be beneficial to learn: (i) how to identify control and topological problems and (ii) to engineer solutions that are physically realizable.

Wind turbine drive system using a fully-rated power converters (MSC & GSC) and permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG).

Incremental piece of a transmission line illustrating its external electric and magnetic fields.

Relatively simple power system model illustrating synchronous generators with excitation windings, transformers, transmission lines, a wind power plant, and system loads.