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GEARED Students See Their Future at DistribuTECH 2018
Power industry conferences are like Match.com for GEARED engineering students. A short video from DistribuTECH 2018 features three GEARED students and how industry conferences are a real eye-opener.
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Timely Academics + Professional Networking: How We’re Shaping The Clean Energy Power Engineering Workforce
Caroline Kamm, a senior at the University of Central Florida (UCF), is pursuing not one but two Bachelor of Science degrees: one in electrical engineering and one in mechanical engineering. Kamm credits FEEDER and GEARED for offering a wide variety of power systems and renewable energy courses that are preparing her to take her rightful…
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Utility Professionals: Meet Your Future Power Systems Workforce!
In just three years, GEARED engineering students and faculty have become part of the DistribuTECH community. Once again, Teresa Hansen, editor in chief, PennWell, welcomed GEARED students and faculty at DistribuTECH 2018 and invited conference attendees to meet their future workforce. This year, 45 GEARED students from 27 universities displayed their research in a poster…
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Readying for DistribuTECH 2018
For the second year in a row, GEARED students and faculty are readying for DistribuTECH 2018, the annual conference of the electric utility industry, January 23-25, 2018 in San Antonio. The large gathering of power systems professionals at DistribuTECH connects GEARED students and industry professionals to the technologies and skills needed to innovate and transform the…
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DEADLINE EXTENDED for DistribuTECH 2018
For the second year, IREC is calling for both GEARED and non-GEARED students to submit posters for the GEARED student poster session at DistribuTECH Conference 2018, January 23-25 San Antonio. Deadline to submit has been extended to November 27.
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DistribuTECH 2018 Call for Student Posters
For the third year, IREC puts out our annual Call for Posters for the GEARED student poster session at DistribuTECH Conference 2018, January 23-25 San Antonio. GEARED students will showcase their research on power systems, smart grid and distributed technology topics in a poster session that will run throughout the conference.This year, up to 52…
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GEARED’s Peer Review Highlights Initiative’s Value and Performance
In October 2016, the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative hosted a peer review to discuss and evaluate the progress of the GEARED program.
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Summer in the City: Next Generation Power Engineers Revolutionizing the Grid
For the fourth summer, 35 graduate and undergraduate engineering students from FEEDER’s consortium of 12 universities experienced first-hand how power engineering goes from classroom to real-world. This year’s summer workshop was the largest since the program began in 2014. FEEDER stands for Foundations for Engineering Education for Distributed Energy Resources.
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Curriculum Sharing for Next Gen Power Systems Workforce Goes Multi-Institutional
An innovative curriculum sharing model from the GEARED Initiative’s FEEDER consortium (Foundations for Energy Engineering for Distributed Energy Resources) is launching today’s power systems engineering students and faculty into completely new learning frontiers.
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UCF Wired to Teach Digital Power Grid
Engineering firm Siemens has invested $750,000 to open a small but highly wired classroom at the University of Central Florida to teach students how to run a digital grid.