@article{01a4db05dc994d2e83c340408ba761bb,
title = "Promoting the power engineering profession through the IEEE Power Engineering Society",
abstract = "The Power Engineering Education Committee of the IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) has a strategic objective of encouraging students and faculty to make their life careers in power engineering. The current challenge is the nonstop interest in computer engineering and the related fields of communication and signal processing. The future of the committee depends on the participation of educators and industry members, and the support of the IEEE PES.",
author = "Heydt, {G. T.} and Venkata, {S. S.} and Gross, {C. A.} and Sauer, {P. W.}",
note = "Funding Information: PEEC snbcommittce activities range very widely in ohjec-tives from teaching to networking. The target groups also vary widely, from precollege to nnivcrsity faculty. Tahlc I shows selected PEEC activities organized by target group aiid strategic activity. In Table I, note that some unscientific generalization and categorization is made: e.g., anyone may enroll in tutorials, undergraduates may use PEEC videotapes, etc. Note that the majority of the activities listed iii Table I did not exist .just 5 years ago. Most are a result ofthe recognition that a great dcal of effort is needed to attract stndents to power engineering. In the 1960s, PEEC was most concerned with liaison activities with coininittees outside PEEC, curricnlnm plans, and quality of power programs. An important part of PEEC meetings dealt mainly with liaison activities with other PES committees, which, in fact, were not usually targeted at university educators. In the advent of thc tremendous cxpension of solid state and computer engineering, fewer and fewer students elect power as a caseer path. Consequently, many present PEEC activitics are directed at countering this trend by informing stndents ahoul careers in power, retaining the students we havc, networking them, and providing technical resources to thcm. In addition, PES-wide tutorial activities are organized in a uniform way in PEEC. The miin PEEC activities are summarized as follows: * Vidcotapes are professionally I .prepased . and distributed tu ures- ent power as an attractive career path. Dr. S.S. Vcnkata of Iowa State University and Dr. N. Schull of Michigan Tech Uni-versity have bccn mainly re-sponsible for this activity. 0 Faculty research capabilities are being gathcred in a Web site available to all. Areas orinterest index the capabilities. The sitc is npcrated by Dr. M. Crow and Dr. Pahwa, and it is located at http://www .cce.umr.edd-powc dUScapab. html and www.ece. iimr.edii/-power/PEEC.] 0 Establishment and maintenance of ii U.S. power graduate stu-dent listserver. Pi-csently, the listservcr has 131 student mem-hers. The listscrver was partially sponsored by the NSF and mainly created by Dr. Noel Schulz at nnschulz@mtu.edii; the listserver is further descrihed at http:// www.cc.intii .cdu/us-pcn. The Power Globc is maintaincd as ;in Intcrnct listserver on power engineering topics. About two messages arc broadcast daily from a host site at North Dakola Slate University to ovcr 2,000 subscrihers of the Power Globe. Topics arc usually technical (e.g., asking for data or cxpcricncc with specific piiwer engineering ctpipment and methods) or informative (e.g., niccling announccmcnls, new texthixiks). At present, about half of tlie Power Globe sub-scrihcir; are iiutside the United States. A sub- corninillcc ol Ibur opcratcs the Power Globe: at present, Dr. B. Mork chairs the committee. The Power Globe Wch site is Imp:// list serv.nodak.cdu/archivcs/power-gl~~he,html, A brief histoiy of the Power Globe will he found in the July 1995 issue OS /EKE Coin- puter Apphition,s in Power magazi tic. 0 PES offers about four power engineering Litlorials at each Summer and Winter Meeting. l{\textquoteleft}liese tuto-rials arc organized and run by PEEC. The tut~riiilsg ener- ate funds for PES, and they mainly scrvc industry needs in specific technical areas. The main organizers of these tiito-rials have hecn Dr. M. Sachdev and Dr. M. El-l-law;iry. * A specialized symposium on cfrcctivc tcaching is being ol-lcrcd friim time tii time hefore the Summer Meeting. This iic- tivity serves a networking need among tcaichcrs, iind it iilsii servcs tii update lcaichcrs on tlie latest educational techniques. * Summer and Winter Meeting studcnl programs arc dc-signed to sponsor attendance Lo thcsc meetings, to involve students in thcsc meetings, Lo sponsor a student prize paper contest, to organi7,e tours and “rap sessions,” and to arrange lunches iind dinners with appropriiite speakers and opportii- nitics for thc students to inect with industrial sponsors. lhis PEEC activity has, pcrhaps, hecii the greatest investment of man-hours to the strategic goals of the committee. {\textquoteright}l{\textquoteleft}he bud-gets for recent SM/WM student programs are shown in Ta- ble 2. The sources offtinding are PES (30-35 percent), NSF (-20 percent), and tlic participaling universities and indus-trial spnnsiirs (almost 50 percent). Student participation in the prograni is shown in Table 3. The nrginizcrs Snr thcsc prngrams have been Dr. M. Daneshdoost of Southern Illi-nois University, Dr. R.R. Adlcr of the Philadclphia Electric Company, and Dr. M. Crow ollhc University of Missiiol-i at Rollii. The main limitation of this program is the available",
year = "2000",
doi = "10.1109/MPER.2000.814647",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "20",
pages = "17--21",
journal = "IEEE Power Engineering Review",
issn = "0272-1724",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
number = "1",
}