Educating 21st Century Power Engineers

教育 21 世纪电力工程师

• 批准号: 0343760
• 负责人: Marija Ilic
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-01-01 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0343760&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Educating; 21st; Century; Power; Engineers

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.

这个项目将开发一个课程，将显示在电力行业工作的本科工程师令人兴奋的，具有挑战性的前景。一般来说，本科生对成熟行业缺乏兴趣，特别是电力行业，部分原因是未能提出工程师选择这个行业从事职业所面临的跨学科挑战。在卡内基梅隆大学信息网络研究所（INI）教育计划（CMU）的基础上，我们将1）为这一高级本科/MS水平课程制定指导方针，在本提案中称为电力系统MS课程（MSEPS），2）开发一系列两个学期的电力课程，通过网络交互式提供，3）设计和建立一个先进的计算机实验室，以支持MSEPS。INI教育计划旨在为未来的行业领导者提供广泛的知识，除了技术核心之外，还强调业务/管理和政策核心。该项目的主要智力价值在于使用工程，计算机科学，经济学，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。通过仔细借鉴这些基础知识，工程专业学生在本科教育的早期阶段获得，该计划将帮助学生思考复杂的网络行业，包括工程和商业组件。通过培养学生以与过去教授的电力工程学科不同的方式思考电力部门，该计划将为合格的学生准备博士课程，并为本科生进入这个快速变化的领域的劳动力做好准备。拥有一支受过良好教育的劳动力队伍，欣赏先进技术对行业绩效的好处，将在这个看似成熟的行业领域为计算机和通信创造一个重要的应用。如果做得正确，这可能会提供刺激，推动整体经济向前发展。除了在CMU开发这个五年工程项目，CMU教师将提供两门课程的互动教学，具体到电力的本科生和一年级研究生在麻省理工学院，史密斯学院和匹兹堡大学。CMU教师将与这些学校的点教师和研究人员密切合作，以提供一个环境，在CMU提供的课程将有利于他们的学生。 特别是，CMU教师将以模块结构组织这两门课程，以便其他学校的成员可以在需要和机会出现时教授他们专业知识的特定科目。