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This paper presents the 'GENAS' simulation program which has been developed and used for educational purposes. The program is developed based on a combination of animation and Monte Carlo concepts to help students interactively and visually understand the random behavior and reliability performance of large electric power systems as a function of time. The 'GENAS' program dynamically produces color moving pictures of the system as well as the numerical values of system reliability indices. This combination of animation and Monte Carlo techniques provides students with the information not generally available from conventional tools of reliability instruction. Index Terms - Animation, education, Monte Carlo, power systems, reliability.

This paper describes a newly installed laboratory module microcomputer-based static reactive power compensator (SVC) in detail to teach students how an SVC affects system voltage, load balancing, power factor, and transmission line losses. The SVC is merged into an old power system simulator for extensive power engineering education. The structure of the SVC is thyristor controlled reactors with fixed capacitors (TCR-FC). Two control algorithms, feedback control and feedforward control, are developed and compared. For the purpose of program flexibility and portability, a VME-Bus based microcomputer is used to synthesize the controller of the SVC. Several suggested experiments are given to show the effects of the SVC on distribution system compensation. The SVC greatly promotes the performance of the power system simulator. keywords: power engineering education, reactive power, microprocessor applications, simulator.

This paper describes a user-friendly power simulation program for teaching power system operations and control. The motivation for the development of the program is to provide students with a simple and useable tool for gaining an intuitive feel for power system operations. This Microsoft Windows[TM] based program simulates power system operation over a specified time period (of typically several hours to a day). Students dynamically interact with the simulated system through various windows, including a one-line display. The use of data files and option windows allows the program to simulate a wide variety of different power systems and operating problems. Efficient programming results in a modest program size of just 450k, allowing for easy distribution to students.