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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 place in today’s power systems engineering workforce.
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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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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.
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GEARED Network Makes Strong Showing at DistribuTECH 2017
“This is a great opportunity for you and your companies to network with potential future employees and maybe provide some guidance to these [GEARED] students.” With those words, Teresa Hansen, Powergrid International Editor-in-Chief and DistribuTECH 2017 Program Chair welcomed a packed opening plenary at DistribuTECH 2017. With more than 515 exhibiting companies, the likelihood that […]
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GEARED Goes to DTECH 2017!
For the second year, GEARED faculty and students will attend DistribuTECH in San Diego. Events around GEARED feature Educating, Hiring and Developing the Next Generation of Electric Power Engineers, a mega session on initiatives that utilities are using to develop a competent 21st century power systems workforce and strategies that address hiring challenges. Catch this session […]
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Yes, Public Policy Does Have a Role in Power Systems Curriculum
By Jane Pulaski Web+Social Communications, IREC I’m at my first NAPS conference (North American Power Symposium), the annual preeminent, international gathering of academia and industry who are thinking deeply about the 21st century power grid. NAPS is two days of painstakingly presented technical papers, laden with formulas and equations on things like geomagnetic disturbance; fuzzy-based […]
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Mariesa Crow Receives Prestigious IEEE Educator Award
Source: Missouri S&T August 26, 2016 Dr. Mariesa Crow, vice provost for research at Missouri University of Science and Technology and the Fred W. Finley Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently received the 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society Outstanding Engineering Educator Award for “leadership and innovation in electric power engineering education.” For […]
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Colorado’s NREL Hosts FEEDER Summer Renewable Energy Workshop
“It was a week filled with lots of knowledge, a focus on the future and inspiring sights to keep us hungry for more, “ said Matt Aberman, senior electrical engineering student at University of Central Florida and second year FEEDER workshop attendee. “It wasn’t unusual for the days to go longer than scheduled. We asked […]
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The SunShot Initiative Five Years On
SolarIndustry Magazine, July 2016 By Dr. Lidija Sekaric Director, U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative Note: The GEARED Initiative is cited on page 5 of this article Since 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SunShot Initiative has bolstered the U.S. solar industry by supporting innovative, cutting-edge technologies that have an immediate, measurable impact on […]
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GridED Forum Offers Opportunities For Students to Help Shape Curriculum
More than 40 GridED Student Innovation Board (SIB) members and faculty met recently for the first free discussion session (FDS) at the Energy Production & Infrastructure Center (EPIC) at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. SIB chair, Morteza Rezaee, Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech, talked about the challenges facing with rooftop photovoltaic […]
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Haiti Bound: GridEd Students Making Impact Around the World
Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech), one of GridEd’s partner universities, is taking steps to send 14 electrical engineering undergraduate students to a remote mountain village in Haiti, to a hospital that is powered by diesel generator. Currently, diesel fuel must be brought in by truck up to a point, then carried the rest of […]
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Re-imagining a 21st Century Power Engineering and Power Systems Workforce for the New Grid
The GEARED initiative is educators working with industry to establish new and updated curriculum so that the next generation power systems workers are fluent in distributed generation technologies. The two informational videos about GEARED and FEEDER – sponsored by Siemens and produced by PennWell – were released at the Siemens mega-booth at DistribuTECH 2016. Interviews […]
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Kids These Days: the next generation of power systems engineers is in the queue
by Jane Pulaski Social+Web Communications, IREC Earlier this month, I spent four 12 hour+ days at the DistribuTECH 2016 conference in Orlando. Despite the marathon days, conferences are where friends and colleagues converge to satisfy our inherent need to connect. I like conferences for exactly that reason. For three of those four days, I was on […]
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Engineers of the future eye a changing power grid
by Peter Behr, E&E reporter From EnergyWire: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 PITTSBURGH — The challenges of climate policy and disruptive technologies that cloud the grid’s future look like opportunities to some of the engineering students who hope to manage that future. A recent power industry conference at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering was […]
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The Future is Bright Thanks to Power Engineer-to-Be
From TI E2E Community Blog November 19, 2015 If we continue to consume energy at the rate we do, our future is in the hands of those students who have a passion to help us find new solutions to seemingly hopeless power problems. Thankfully, the future looks bright with the next generation of power engineers. […]
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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 […]