JUPYTER NOTEBOOKS FOR COMPUTER-BASED LABORATORIES ON POWER SYSTEM DYNAMICS AND CONTROL

The paper describes the author's experience with laboratory activities based on Jupyter Notebook for the module "Power System Dynamics and Control" in the academic year 2017/2018 at University College Dublin. Jupyter is an open-source project that started in 2014 based on IPython and has quickly become popular in the scientific and academic community. Jupyter Notebooks are basically interactive webpages, that can be easily and efficiently designed for testing live code, embedding narrative text and visualizing results. The paper shows that using Jupyter Notebooks for teaching can improve the students learning experience and minimize the need to know how to interact with a Unix server and, thereby effectively increasing the ability of the students to run more tests and simulations. An example of the lab activities proposed in the module as well as the point of view of the teaching assistant that helped run the laboratories and students' feedback are provided in the paper.