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EPRI GridEd: educating a readied power engineering workforce for the modern grid
This past spring, the EPRI GridEd Distributed Technology Training Consortia (DTTC) hosted a workshop to inform stakeholders about the DTTC’s activities and progress, and to discuss the strategic direction of GridEd. “The workshop gave us a chance to dig in and share ideas about GridEd’s educational initiative that’s training the next generation of power engineers who will…
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2015 FEEDER Summer Power Experiences Program Features Technical Tours
The FEEDER five-day 2015 Summer Power Experiences Program at the University of Kentucky runs May 18-22. This 3-credit class includes site visits and technical tours to power and energy oriented facilities from industry engineers and operators. Site visits include wind, solar, hydro, supercritical coal, gas turbine, pumped storage, transmission control center, smart grid demonstration site, and…
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MARMET Hosts Microgrid Power Systems Workshop in Living Lab
On March 29-30, 2015, the MARMET group organized and hosted a workshop on microgrid systems and power electronics for low energy buildings in the new Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (ECEB) at the University of Illinois. This workshop was co-sponsored by the IEEE and by the Power Sources Manufacturers’ Association (PSMA). Forty registered participants, ten…
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Student Focused Power Symposium Offers Unique Venue for GEARED Students
For 47 years, the North American Power Symposium (NAPS) has provided an international, open forum for academia and industry to exchange innovative ideas and solutions for power and energy systems. Known as a student-focused symposium, NAPS encourages students to present papers on analytical, computational, experimental studies aimed at solving problems related to operation, control, monitoring, protection, reliability as well…
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FEEDER Consortium Universities Develop, Deliver Power Generation Curriculum for the New Electrical Grid
Five FEEDER Consortium universities are developing and teaching two power engineering courses for the smart grid for Spring 2015
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Workshop on Microgrid Systems and Power Electronics for Low Energy Buildings
A workshop addressing engineering issues involved in implementing grid-interactive renewables co-sponsored by MARMET
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First Student Conference for Developing the Future Power Engineering Workforce
More than 40 students and faculty from universities across the country participated in a first annual, one day student-centered conference April 28 on developing the power engineering workforce of the future. The first annual conference is a project of the U.S. Department of Energy’s new program: Grid Engineering for Accelerated Renewable Energy Development (GEARED). A part…