Future hiring trends and needs of the electric power industry

The electric power industry is facing unprecedented capable human resource shortage in all sectors of the work place-industry, academia and research institutions alike. Nevertheless, the search for engineers in this unique technical field have continuously been on the increase in recent years as a result of retirement of the older generation of competent labor force, new innovations in the industry such as the utility industry restructuring, etc. Recently, there has been an industry trend to recruit new engineers who possess the sophistication of 21st century computer and information technology and has the requisite knowledge and the underlying power engineering education. The speaker discusses some of the changing trends and requirements of the industry that has ever become the back bone of World economies, and make recommendations for adaptation of new course structure that could potentially motivate the younger generation to pursue careers in power engineering