An Internet-based load flow visualization software for education in power engineering

This article describes an interactive load flow visualization software for education in power engineering that uses Matlab as a computational engine. It features the utilization of the Internet: the software can be run on any Internet browser and thus there is no special installation needed for the user. Lecturers use it to visually demonstrate load flow in electric transmission systems in a convenient way: They access predefined examples on a server. After class students can access the same examples via an Internet browser to strengthen the new knowledge: The time on task is be increased, which has a high effect on learning efficiency. This principle of learning software can easily be applied to other fields in the future.