Engineers Can Power Up Skills With Online Course
April 24, 2025 | by Heidi Wells, Global Campus | min read

Professional engineers and graduate students can enroll in a new, online course designed to provide participants with a foundation for analysis and design of grid connected power electronic circuits for conversion and control of electric energy.
The Grid-connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES) Center led by the University of Arkansas that promotes the use of power electronics technology in the nation’s electric grid is offering the course. Professional engineers can earn 10 hours of continuing education credit for completing it. A full description of learning objectives and course content is available on the course website.
The course costs $600 but is available at a discounted price of $50 to current U of A students and $300 to industry members of the center.
In Arkansas, electrical engineers who hold a professional license must complete 30 professional development hours every two years for renewal.
Faculty and students associated with the research center created the course that combines theoretical insights with real-world project case studies.
GRAPES, founded in 2009, works with industry to improve power electronics technology and integrate it with the needs of industry and of the power grid as a whole. It’s a collaboration among the University of Arkansas, the University of South Carolina, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and industrial and governmental members.
Heidi Wells
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Heidi Wells is the content strategist for the Global Campus at the University of Arkansas and editor of The Online Learner. Her writing spans more than 30 years as a communicator at the U of A and a reporter and editor at Arkansas newspapers. Wells earned two degrees from the U of A: a master's in 2013 and a bachelor's in 1988.
Wells can be reached at heidiw@uark.edu or 479-575-7239.
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