Power Engineering Needs in Education and Professional Development

The emergence of engineering from a craft into a profession requires supplementing the knowledge and skills of the craft with those management skills which constitute the professional interface between engineering and the needs of the society. This is singularly characteristic of the electric power industry which is organized, implemented, and managed by engineers having a wide diversity of specialized engineering knowledge. The prerequisites of scholarship and professional skill are discussed, including suggestions for continuing development, with examples of the respective roles of the engineering educator, the engineer, and his professional peers.