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UW Madison Power Engineering Distance Learning

UW Madison Power Engineering Distance Learning

UW Madison Power Engineering Distance Learning

(OP)
Has anyone in this forum taken any Power Engineering courses through University of Wisconsin - Madison's distance learning program? UW has a good reputation and the course offerings look good.  I don't know how to what degree a good school necessarily has a good distance learning program.

I've been looking at University of Idaho as well.  They have similar offerings to UW, but with lower tuition.

-John

RE: UW Madison Power Engineering Distance Learning

I know nothing about U of Wisc - Madison (UW is several hundred miles west of there), but can highly recommend the U of I program.

RE: UW Madison Power Engineering Distance Learning

(OP)
Were the courses you took at U of I live or canned?  One of the courses I'm interested in says it was "produced" in Spring 2010.  

That makes me a little concerned about the ability to interact with the professor and ask questions.

Thanks,
John
 

RE: UW Madison Power Engineering Distance Learning

All of my were recorded the semester I took them, but all interaction with the instructors is typically by email anyway and only rarely did that cause any issues with timeliness.  The discs would arrive a week's worth at a time; my favorite schedule was a M-W-F class that mailed on Thursdays.  On Friday I'd have the discs for last Friday plus Monday and Wednesday of the current week.

RE: UW Madison Power Engineering Distance Learning

Also consider Kansas State University. I took a complete Master's degree through them with a full set of power systems courses.

Very happy with the quality. These were live classes.

RE: UW Madison Power Engineering Distance Learning

In the same line as redfurry, consider Georgia Tech. Very good offerings in power imo and you can follow it all the way to a MS degree without ever travelling to their campus if you are so inclined.

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RE: UW Madison Power Engineering Distance Learning

MTU (Mich. Tech.) offers Electrical Power and Energy Systems also via distance learning.   

RE: UW Madison Power Engineering Distance Learning

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I don't know how to what degree a good school necessarily has a good distance learning program
For Georgia Tech (and I assume the others), as a distance student you would view the same lectures as the on-campus students (except by video), you do the same homework and project assignments, you take the same exams (proctored locally).  The only difference is that a few of the on-campus courses are not offered in the distance learning program (including any course that requires on-campus laboratory excercizes).  So you have a few less choices in filling out your curriculum, BUT that doesn't mean they reduce your degree requirements.  The degree requirements are still identical for on-campus and off-campus students (minimum 3 from column A, 4 from column B, etc), so an on-campus student can take the same courses as you and get his degree.   In summary, you still meet the same requirements as the on-campus students, you just have fewer options in how to get there.

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