Title :
The challenges and opportunities of workforce development in power engineering and how the IEEE PES is helping
Author :
Schulz, Noel N. ; Reder, Wanda
Author_Institution :
Mississippi State Univ., Starkville, MS
Abstract :
This paper provides a discussion about the aging workforce issues within the power engineering community and outlines how the IEEE Power & Energy Society is working to maintain the pipeline of power engineering students and professionals through various current and future society activities.
Keywords :
human resource management; industrial power systems; labour resources; power engineering computing; power engineering; workforce development; Aging; Pipelines; Power engineering; Power engineering and energy; Power generation economics; Power system reliability; Power systems; Pressing; Societies; USA Councils;
Conference_Titel :
Universities Power Engineering Conference, 2008. UPEC 2008. 43rd International
Conference_Location :
Padova
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3294-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-88-89884-09-6
DOI :
10.1109/UPEC.2008.4651685