“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…
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…
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…
Designed to help students gain practical experience and prepare them to meet future challenges of the evolving power system, GridEd is looking for undergraduate design projects on power engineering and offering up to $5,000/project for support. Awards are eligible only…
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…
“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…
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…
How do educators know if their courses are effective? Or relevant? Or engaging? GEARED faculty, with help from Dr. Matt Champagne, are finding out. “Gathering and action on student feedback while courses are still in session consistently deliver positive outcomes,…
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.…
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…