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  • Yes, Public Policy Does Have a Role in Power Systems Curriculum

    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…

  • Kids These Days: the next generation of power systems engineers is in the queue

    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…