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Importance of Electrical Power Systems Education
NSF Workshop on Electric Energy Education
Texas A&M University, Doha, Qatar
Prof. Saifur RahmanDirector, Virginia Tech Advanced Research Inst., USA
Vice PresidentIEEE Power & Energy Society
14 December 2009
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Electric Power & Energy
Community Needs and Priorities
Educational needs at the undergraduate and graduate levels and life-long learning
Academic practices in the recent past
Industry needs in the changing environment
CEWD 2008 Survey: Pipeline Results
Significant (~45%) attrition in five years
Age Results
–15% are < 33
–58% are 33 - 52
–27% are > 52
Median age is 45
Average age has declined
–2006: 45.7
–2007: 45.3
Hiring appears to be occurring
2006 Data
2007 Data
Source: Center for Energy Workforce Development -- Gaps in the Energy Workforce
Pipeline 2008 Survey
Power & Energy Industry
•Two-thirds of PES membership is from industry
•Strong tradition of industry-sponsored academic research in the US, Europe, Japan and China
•Close working relationship between academia and practicing engineers
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Electric Power System of the Future
Electricity supply mix away from fossil fuels with
expanded development of wind, solar, biomass,
geothermal, nuclear and energy from the oceans
Expanded focus on energy efficiency
Greater application of IT and communication
technologies
Smart Grid
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Evolving Nature of the Electric Power System
Electric Power & Communication Infrastructures
Central GeneratingStation
Step-Up Transformer
DistributionSubstation
ReceivingStation
DistributionSubstation
DistributionSubstation
Commercial
Industrial Commercial
Gas Turbine
RecipEngine
Cogeneration
RecipEngine
Fuel cell
Micro-turbine
Flywheel
Residential
Photovoltaics
Batteries
Residential Data
Concentrator
Control Center
Data network Users
2. Information Infrastructure
1.Power Infrastructure
Source: EPRI 8
Smart Grid
Source: Altalink, Alberta, Canada
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•Alternate energy systems and associatedpower electronics will be essential
•Needs expertise in communication, signal processing, controls, computing in addition to power systems
Engineering Needed to Accomplish This Task
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Core Functions of IEEE PES
Develop standards (eg, IEEE 1547).
Provide education to develop the workforce for the
future.
Provide a mechanism to publish new developments.
Education and research aspects for alternative
energy power conditioning can be easily adopted
and in some cases, are already under consideration.
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US Federal Support for Workforce Training
US $100 million funding opportunity
Industry Needs
Create on-line educational products portfolio for the
practicing engineer
•Create the business model
• Implement an e-commerce tool for distribution
• Further define content
•Enter existing content in the Digital Library
•Promote availability
Measurement – define practioner involvement and increase it
How is the Power & Energy Society Responding?
Tutorials – At PES conferences and free-standing
venues
Expert Now Modules
• Various power system topics
• Smart Grid
Plain Talk offerings – Power System topics in
layman’s terms
Expand Plain Talk for offerings in R8 -10
Creating DLP voice-overs
IEEE Transactions on Energy ConversionIEEE Transactions on Power DeliveryIEEE Transactions on Power SystemsIEEE Transactions on Sustainable EnergyIEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
PES Journals
Annual General MeetingIEEE T&D Conference
Power Systems Conf & ExpositionPowerTech Conference in Europe PowerCon Conference in the Asia
Asia-Pacific Power & Energy Engineering Conf.PowerAfrica ConferenceAsia-Pacific T&D, and Latin-America T&D
Regular PES Conferences
The Energy 2030 Conference in November 18-19, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia co-sponsored with IEEE-USA, IEEE-SA, IAS,
PELS and PES.
A joint PES and Industry Applications Society (IAS) conference was held in the fall ‘09 in Valencia, Spain focusing on energy.
Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT) Conference in Washington, DC, January 2010
Asia-Pacific Power & Energy Engineering conference at Chengdu in China in March 2010.
Specialized Conferences