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Course description

Optimization techniques are essential in the planning of large electrical systems, optimization of power flows, and a wide variety of other electrical engineering problems. The course covers linear programming and interior point methods for the optimal allocation of electrical resources, constrained and unconstrained methods applied to the design of optimal power systems, nonlinear programming methods for the optimisation of power flows, dynamic programming and Lagrangian methods for scheduling problems, genetic and evolutionary algorithms applied to a variety of electrical engineering tasks.