Diploma examinations for students affiliated with the Department of Power Engineering are conducted in accordance with the current regulations of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Lublin University of Technology.
Detailed information on the diploma procedure, required documents, thesis submission deadlines, current thesis topics and document templates is available on the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science website under Theses.
For degree programmes and curricula that do not require the preparation of a thesis, the diploma examination is conducted orally. The student answers at least five examination questions covering a broad range of topics included in the curriculum.
The examination topics applicable to students affiliated with the Department of Power Engineering are provided below.
To be eligible to take the master's diploma examination, the student must prepare a thesis in accordance with the applicable requirements, complete the required plagiarism-checking procedure and obtain the supervisor's approval.
The student submits a printed copy of the thesis, together with the four required documents resulting from the University's plagiarism-checking procedure, to the secretary of the relevant diploma examination committee. The printed version of the thesis must be identical to the version submitted to the plagiarism-checking systems.
Any additional materials related to the thesis, such as computer programs, source code, models, calculation spreadsheets, measurement data or diagrams, should be submitted in accordance with the arrangements made with the supervisor or the secretary of the diploma examination committee.
The master's diploma examination is conducted orally and consists of two parts. In the first part, the student gives a brief presentation of the thesis, with particular emphasis on the research component and their own contribution. Members of the examination committee may ask questions concerning the thesis and the methodology used. In the second, examination part, the student answers at least three examination questions.
List of Examination Topics – First-Cycle Studies – Group 2
2.1. Classification of electric light sources.
2.2. Selection of conductors in power networks.
2.3. Protection against electric shock in low-voltage installations and networks.
2.4. Parameters and equivalent circuits of power lines and transformers.
2.5. Voltage drops in power networks.
2.6. Power and energy losses.
2.7. Reactive power compensation.
2.8. Classification of automation systems used in power engineering – examples and applications.
2.9. Protection and automation of medium-voltage power lines – types of protection and fundamentals of their selection.
2.10. Voltage control in power networks.
2.11. Short circuits in power networks.
2.12. Characteristics of industrial computer networks.
2.13. Examples of communication protocols used in industrial networks. Characterise a selected protocol.
List of Examination Topics – Second-Cycle Studies
1. Causes of poor electricity supply quality and methods for its improvement.
2. Parameters used to describe power quality.
3. Models of power lines and transformers.
4. Power and energy losses.
5. Parallel operation of transformers.
6. Tasks performed by control and supervision systems.
7. Data transmission technologies used in power engineering.
8. Functions performed by substation and bay controllers used in power-system telecommunications.
9. Disturbance recording in power systems.
10. Qualifications required for the operation and supervision of electrical equipment – principles governing their award.
11. Qualifications required to perform independent technical functions in construction – types of qualifications, principles and procedures governing their award, and education and professional requirements.
12. Principles of protection against electric shock in systems with voltages up to 1 kV.
13. Principles of protection against electric shock in systems with voltages above 1 kV.
14. Organisation of safe work in power engineering – designated personnel, their qualifications and responsibilities, work performed without an instruction, and work performed under written and verbal instructions.
15. Live-line work on electrical power equipment and networks.
16. Testing and measurement of insulation condition – factors affecting insulation condition, condition indicators, voltage tests, resistance measurements and dielectric loss factor measurements.
17. Fault location in cable lines.
18. Operational testing of medium-voltage substation bays – measurements of current transformers and voltage transformers, and circuit-breaker testing.
19. Operational testing and measurements of transformers.
20. Classification of power system protection and automation systems. Provide examples.
21. Protection of high-voltage power lines.
22. Protection against phase-to-phase faults in medium-voltage power lines.
23. Methods of implementing earth-fault protection for medium-voltage power lines depending on the method of neutral-point operation.
24. Transformer differential protection.
25. Role of the gas-and-oil-flow relay in transformer protection.
26. Protection against phase-to-phase and inter-turn faults in electric motors.
27. Explain the phenomenon of distance measurement errors in distance protection.
28. Types of buses used in power-flow calculations – state variables, constraints and their roles in the analysed system.
29. Interconnection of sequence networks depending on the type of fault.
30. Thermodynamic cycles of power plants and combined heat and power plants; types of turbines and configurations used.
31. Methods for improving the efficiency of power plant and combined heat and power plant cycles.
32. Energy conversion and losses in electricity generation processes.
33. Operating range of an extraction-condensing turbine-generator unit – Schneider diagram.
34. Types of hydraulic turbines used in hydropower engineering.
35. Characteristics and operating principle of a pumped-storage power plant.
36. Tariffs in power engineering.
37. Third-Party Access (TPA) principle.
38. Balancing market and power exchange.
Current Thesis Topics
Current thesis topics approved by the Faculty Council are available on the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science website.
Archive of Diploma Theses
The attachment contains a list of engineering and master's theses defended at the Department of Power Engineering between 2007 and 2012. The list is provided for archival and reference purposes.
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