Student, who passed the course satisfactorily will be able to:

- Identify basic concepts related to electrical breakdown of insulating gases, liquids and solids,

- Describe Townsend breakdown mechanism,

- Describe streamer (or kanal) mechanism of spark,

- Describe corona discharge,

 - Describe the electrical breakdown of liquids under practical (industrial) conditions,

- Explain the electrical breakdown of liquids under laboratory conditions and breakdown theories,

- Identify dielectric tests of insulating liquids,

- Identify different breakdown mechanisms in solids,

- Explain the characteristics and application of dielectric gases, insulating liquids and solid dielectric material.

- Identify methods of discharge detection in high voltage equipment.