PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER

Summary Statement

These are the competency Units and Elements. These elements must be addressed in the Summary Statement
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Competency Element

A brief summary of how you have

applied the element

PE1 KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL BASE

During the first week, I first studied why
traditional centralized optimization
PE1.1 Comprehensive, theory-based
cannot meet the demand of large-scale
understanding of the underpinning
power systems.
natural and physical sciences and the
After that I summed up the system
engineering fundamentals applicable to
requirements, and grouped the key
the engineering discipline
requirements into the following three
points.

PE1.2 Conceptual understanding of the

mathematics, numerical analysis,
statistics and computer and information
sciences which underpin the
engineering discipline

PE1.3 In-depth understanding of

specialist bodies of knowledge within
the engineering discipline

PE1.4 Discernment of knowledge

development and research directions
within the engineering discipline

After that I studied the local

characteristics of the reactive power
balance, then I established the object
function model.
I established mathematical model that
makes three aspects integrative
optimization.
Before hardware design, I must fix the
needs of the State Grid Information &
Telecommunication Branch. In the first
two weeks, I analyzed the design
requirements of the power meter reading
system given by them.
In addition, in order to get a global
optimum solution more rapidly and
better, I improved the selection, crossover
and mutation operator in GA.
I did a PCB design for the coordinator,
routers and end nodes in the smart power
meter reading system.
As a hardware designer on the project, I
applied my knowledge and skills to do
electrical hardware architecture design
In the objective function, I also
considered the security operation of
electrical networks, deal the restriction of
voltage and reactive power produced by

Paragraph in the career

episode(s) where the
element is addressed
CE1.5

CE2.5

CE1.6

CE1.6

CE2.5

CE1.13

CE2.10

CE2.14
CE1.6

the generator.
I summarized the currently available
communication technologies for power
meter reading system.
After that, I studied the characteristics
and measures of voltage regulation of
modern grid.
PE1.5 Knowledge of contextual factors
impacting the engineering discipline

PE1.6 Understanding of the scope,

principles, norms, accountabilities and
bounds of contemporary engineering
practice in the specific discipline

PE2.2 Fluent application of engineering

techniques, tools and resources

CE1.5

After investigation, I found the existing

power meter reading system is hard to
manage.

CE2.1

After that I summed up the current

limitations of monitoring methods,
For the economic need of power system
operation, therefore, I took the power loss
minimum as objective function.

CE3.6

The application also showed that the

software could obtain a good economy
and a favorable voltage level.
In addition, it can effectively save
national power energy.

After the detail study of the

implementation of Z-stack protocol stack,
I used IAR as the software development
environment.
PE2 ENGINEERING APPLICATION ABILITY
I did the research on voltage and reactive
power optimization under smart grid. In
my study, the characteristics, principles
and measures of reactive power and
voltage regulation of modern grid were
analyzed.
PE2.1 Application of established
engineering methods to complex
engineering problem solving

CE2.6

After that I considered a variety of

wireless networking technology
according to above three requirements,
and read a lot of papers and technical
materials.

CE1.6

CE1.13
CE2.6

CE3.8

CE1.3

CE2.6

I designed two types of wireless sensor

network node hardware platforms,
including terminals node and coordinator
node which used TI CC2430 as the core
chip.

CE3.8

I developed a data input module and user

interface with Visual Basic. The RPO
computation program was coded by
Visual C++ based on the popular Access
database.

CE1.12

I chose the ZigBee technology for the

following reasons: simple and fast
(enough for power meter).
On the hardware side, in order to design a
low-power ZigBee-based network node, I
used the intelligent temperature sensor
DS18B20 and TI (Texas Instruments
Incorporated) company's production of
the ZigBee CC2430 radio chip SOC
solutions as the core node device.
I chose TI's Z-Stack 2006 protocol stack
as the software platform.
Then I designed a distributed optimal
coordinated control method of voltage
and reactive power based on a modified
genetic algorithm.

PE2.3 Application of systematic

engineering synthesis and design
processes

I used the protel software to do the PCB

design, including component layout,
cascade design, power supply and the
ground plane processing, cabling, etc.
In my work, the design and production of
system hardware circuit schematic and
PCB board was finished by Protel 2001.
I used C language as the software
development language.
In my algorithm, I considered the
regulation of power factor control,
economy and reliability assessment index
such as the limit of voltage, the best
reactive power compensation level, the
best reactive power margin, the best
transformer turns ratio and the best range
of the transformer.

PE2.4 Application of systematic

approaches to the conduct and
management of engineering projects

In the following two weeks, me and my

group partner developed the system
architecture. I was responsible for the
hardware design, and my partner was
responsible for software architecture and
antenna design.
The first two weeks, I first summarized
the needs of the project.

PE3 PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

CE2.6

CE3.7

CE3.8
CE1.8

CE2.10

CE3.8
CE3.8
CE1.8

CE2.7

CE3.5

The traditional algorithm of voltage and

reactive power control was difficult to
meet smart grids requirements, so I
planned to develop a heuristic algorithm
to solve this problem.

PE3.1 Ethical conduct and professional

accountability

In the project, I was the hardware

designer. It was my responsibility to do
hardware architecture design, do chip and
other component type selection, do the
schematic design, including the power
supply circuit, reset circuit, interface
circuit, power amplifier circuit, coupling
circuit, communication interface circuit,
etc.
Analysis the characteristics of
electromagnetic compatibility of the
terminal were also my duty.
It was my responsibility to design both
hardware and embedded software in the
monitoring system, including low-power
ZigBee-based network node hardware
design, choose the type of intelligent
temperature sensor, do embedded
software programming with IAR
embedded workbench, etc.
I had a long conversation with a staff of
the State Grid Information &
Telecommunication Branch.

PE3.2 Effective oral and written

communication in professional and lay
domains

PE3.3 Creative innovative and

proactive demeanour

I participated in a project meeting

between our lab and State Grid
Information & Telecommunication
Branch.
I wrote a report with Microsoft Word to
summarize the managers statement of
the following two points
I also developed a new algorithm of the
voltage and reactive power optimization,
including voltage partitioning method,
distributed optimally coordinate control
method of voltage and reactive power
method based on a modified genetic
algorithm.
Then I decided to design the intelligent
power meter with ZigBee.
With the experience of last project, I
developed a solution of the power
temperature monitoring system, including
the hardware and embedded software
implementation.

CE1.5

CE2.3

CE2.3

CE3.3

CE2.5

CE3.5

CE3.5
CE1.3

CE2.6

CE3.7

After a review of the relevant papers in

the library, I found that this problem is a
mixed nonlinear optimization problem
with many variables, constraints and
extremisms.

PE3.4 Professional use and

management of information

After that I searched on some forum, I

found that I only need to change the file
config.pro in the c:\. Then the problem
was solved.
I searched on Google, and I found the
problem related to the component layout
and electromagnetic compatibility.
In the procedure of solving problems, I
improved my ability of communicating
and search problems with Google and
Technology Forum.
In the following two weeks, I studied the
simple genetic algorithm.

PE3.5 Orderly management of self, and

professional conduct

CE2.10

CE2.12

CE3.16
CE1.7

Through this project, I gained hardware

design experience in electrical
engineering.

CE2.14

I also gained the skill of how to use IAR

Embedded Workbench software with this
project.

CE3.16

I participate the national computer course

in China and I passed the exam in Grade
4
some other problems were solved by
discussing with my group partner.
PE3.6 Effective team membership and
team leadership

CE1.5

After that I met group mate Fan who did

the similar job in the last project. He said
he faced the same problem before. He
told me to replace the linker file with the
one on his computer. Then the problem
was solved.

In: Continuing Professional

Development
CE2.13

CE3.10