Educational activities and resources in the IEEE Power and Energy Society

Author

Sauer, Peter W.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) has a long history of numerous educational activities that benefit members as well as future members and the global community. This panel presentation provides a summary of the latest activities that are being led by the society and ideas for the future. These activities include the work of the Power Engineering Education Committee (PEEC), The U.S. Power and Energy Engineering Workforce Collaborative, IEEE eLearning (formerly Expert Now), Plain Talk Courses, the PES Distinguished Lecturer Program, PES-Careers, and other novel educational resources that are available through the IEEE/PES web site.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; power engineering education; IEEE eLearning; IEEE energy society; IEEE power society; PES distinguished lecturer program; PES-career; U.S. Power and Energy Engineering Workforce; educational activity; educational resource; power engineering education committee; Collaboration; Educational institutions; Engineering profession; Industries; Power engineering; Power systems; Web sites; Power Engineering Education; continuing education; engineering education resources; workforce training;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1944-9925

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1000-1

Electronic_ISBN

1944-9925

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PES.2011.6039711

Filename

6039711