A virtual laboratory for outreach (or off-campus) electrical power engineering students using the personal edition of PSCAD/EMTDC, a time domain electromagnetic transients program, is presented. The lab experience starts out with a video tour of the lab the on-campus students will use, including a description of the equipment in the lab. Five lab experiments covering: three phase measurements, three phase transformers, synchronous generators, and load flow studies are implemented. The off-campus students perform the same lab exercises as their on-campus classmates, record the same types of data, and provide the same computations for their reports. The off-campus students start with data files providing the basic building blocks they need to implement the lab, including metering functions that provide the same outputs available in the lab. The simulation results and experimental results were both compared and verified to ensure that the results will be similar.
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