An Innovative Approach to High Voltage Engineering Education and Research

Power engineering education is faced with the challenge of the environmental problems that the power industry has experienced in recent years. One of the most important environmental issues to the nation, the power industry and power engineering education is the question currently being raised regarding high voltage transmission lines. This paper describes an approach to deal with these environmental problems from both education and research points of view. This approach has been found to be highly successful in educating students, farmers, managers, engineers and the general public about high voltage transmission systems.