Educating 21st Century Power Engineers

这个项目将开发一门课程，向本科工程师展示在电力行业工作的令人兴奋的、具有挑战性的前景。本科生对成熟行业普遍缺乏兴趣，尤其是电力行业，部分原因是未能提出工程师选择该行业作为职业将面临的跨学科挑战。在卡内基梅隆大学信息网络学院(INI)教育计划(CMU)的基础上，我们将1)为这一高级本科/MS水平计划制定指导方针，在本提案中称为电力系统MS计划(MSEPS)，2)开发一系列两个学期的电力课程，可通过网络互动获得，以及3)设计和实施一个支持MSEPS的高级计算机实验室。INI教育计划旨在为未来的行业领导者提供广泛的知识，除了技术核心外，还强调商业/管理和政策核心。该项目的主要智力价值在于利用工程、计算机科学、经济、政策和商业的基础知识来应对不断发展的电力部门的紧迫挑战。通过仔细利用工科学生在本科教育早期阶段掌握的这些基础知识，本课程将使学生准备好思考复杂的网络行业，包括工程和商业组件。通过培养学生以一种与过去教授的电力工程学科不同的方式思考电力行业，该项目将培养合格的学生从事博士课程，并为本科生进入这个快速变化的领域做好准备。拥有一支受过教育的劳动力队伍，认识到先进技术对行业表现的好处，将在这个看似成熟的行业领域创造出计算机和通信的主要应用。如果操作得当，这可能会刺激整体经济向前发展。除了在CMU开发这个五年工程项目外，CMU的教职员工还将为麻省理工学院、史密斯学院和匹兹堡大学的本科生和一年级研究生提供两门专门针对电力的课程的互动教学。债务工具大学的教职员将与这些学校的POINT教员和研究人员紧密合作，为学生提供一个有利的环境。特别是，债务工具中央理工学院的教职员会以单元结构安排这两项课程，以便其他学校的成员可以在有需要和有机会时，教授他们所擅长的特定科目。

This project will develope a curriculum that will show the exciting, challenging prospects to undergraduate engineers of working in the electricity industry. Lack of undergraduate interest in mature industries generally, and the electricity industry in particular, is due in part to a failure to present the interdisciplinary challenges that an engineer selecting this industry for a career would face. Building on Carnegie Mellon's Information Network Institute (INI) Educational Programs (CMU), we will 1) establish guidelines for this advanced-undergraduate/MS level program, referred to in this proposal as the MS Program in Electric Power Systems (MSEPS), 2) develop a sequence of two semester courses specific to electric power, to be available interactively through the web, and 3) design and implement an advanced Computer Laboratory in support of MSEPS. The INI Educational Program aims to give future industry leaders broad knowledge, emphasizing the Business/Managerial and Policy Cores, in addition to the Technology Core. The main intellectual merit of this project lies in using fundamentals from engineering,computer science, economics, policy and business to address the pressing challenges in the evolving electric power sector. By carefully drawing on these fundamentals, which engineering students acquire in the early stages of their undergraduate education, this program will prepare students to think about complex network industries, including both engineering and business components. By preparing students to think about the electric power sector in a qualitatively different manner than power engineering subjects have been taught in the past, this program will prepare qualified students to engage in doctoral programs and prepare undergraduates to enter the workforce in this rapidly changing field. Having an educated workforce that appreciates the benefits of advanced technologies on industry performance will create a major application for computers and communications in this seemingly mature industry sector. If done correctly, thiscould provide stimulus in moving the overall economy forward.In addition to developing this five year engineering program at CMU, the CMU faculty willprovide interactive teaching of the two courses specific to electric power to the undergraduate and first year graduate students at MIT, Smith College and University of Pittsburgh. The CMU faculty will work closely with the point faculty and researchers at these schools to provide an environment in which the courses offered at CMU would be beneficial to their students. In particular, the CMU faculty will organize the two courses in a modular structure so that members from other schools can teach particular subjects of their expertise as the need and opportunities for this arise.