UW Madison Power Engineering Distance Learning

[jfpe]

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

 

[davidbeach]

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.

 

[jfpe]

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

 

[davidbeach]

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.

 

[redfurry]

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.

 

[electricpete]

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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[farmape]

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

 

[electricpete]

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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