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GridED Offers Funding for Undergraduate Design Projects in Power Engineering
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 for current active GridED affiliate universities. Criteria to apply: Open to undergraduate students only; Projects…
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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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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…