Application of the PSAT, an Open Source Software, for Educational and Research Purposes

This paper describes the authors´ and users´ experience in the application of a free and open source software for teaching and research in power system analysis and modeling, namely power system analysis toolbox (PSAT). PSAT is currently used in several Universities for undergraduate courses, graduate courses and research. Selected experiences of the application of PSAT for educational and research purposes are discussed in this paper. PSAT has its own web forum, which provides support to students and researchers all around the world. The paper also discusses the contributions of PSAT to power engineering education based on the results of a survey on PSAT filled up by the members of the PSAT web forum.