Students manufacture transfer switch for practices
SANTO DOMINGO. A group of electrical engineering students designed and manufactured a transfer switch didactic model as a final project of their career, which they donated to the university laboratory so that other students can learn about the operation of this equipment and even use it to perform their class practices.
Kevin Bryan Núñez Rodríguez, Joan José Correa Amador, Enmanuel Morales Heredia, Juan Carlos López and Guillermo Rincón also delivered a brochure with practices for using the transfer switch, as well as possible evaluations for the subject Automation, control and instrumentation.
During the presentation of their final project, the students told that the design and manufacture of the equipment took six months and they used materials provided by the Electrical Engineering laboratory.
A transfer switch is a device that makes the electrical connection to the power generator when the public network has faults, and then returns the power connection to the public system when it is restored.
"As a group we are pleased to know that the successors of the Electrical Engineering career will have a tool as important as the didactic module of a transfer switch, where they can not only enrich the technical part of the electrical engineering career, but also They will also have the opportunity to strengthen fundamental concepts that are necessary in the workplace. We are also pleased with the idea that all the effort and time we dedicate as a group to carry out this project will be used by students for their professional development for both practical and conceptual purposes, "the students said.
The didactic model will allow future students of the race to put into practice the theoretical knowledge they receive in class, and even try some of the most common faults in these teams that are: Failure in a phase (phase absence), by variation of voltage (high or low voltage), over current, frequency variation, phase sequence, sudden shutdown of plant, among others.
The students presented the team to dozens of family members and classmates in the Videoconference Room. The presentation was attended by the professor of Electrical Engineering Projects, Miguel Aybar, and also the coordinator of that career, Giuseppe Sbriz.