Workshop on CPS Education with Emphasis on the Power Grid, to be held in Arlington, VA, July 26-27, 2014

在过去的十年里，电力和能源领域取得了许多新的进展。具体而言，更新的智能电网技术正在实施，可再生能源的份额增加了数倍，电动汽车逐渐普及。由于这些新技术的融合，电力系统的运行变得更加复杂。现在，从发电机到消费者的每一个环节都需要计算机进行操作和管理。由于这些发展，电力系统已经成为大型网络物理系统（CPS）。随着电力系统变得越来越复杂，将继续需要将网络物理系统领域的进步整合到电力系统的运行、控制和设计中。这也提出了为未来的劳动力做好准备的任务，以应对未来复杂网格的操作和管理挑战。提议的讲习班的目标是通过审查事态的现状和提出新的教育概念和未来的想法来解决这一任务。虽然大多数参与者将来自电力和能源领域，但将邀请来自计算，通信和控制领域的选定专家参加研讨会。这将使参与者能够学习其他领域的最佳实践，以便在电力和能源系统中实施。研讨会将集中讨论电力和能源系统和CPS的最新进展，目标是将它们整合到下一代工程师的教育中。讲习班将产生新的战略和想法来满足这些需要。通过讲习班确定的战略将产生教育内容，这将促进更好地培养下一代电力和能源工程师。这些工程师将准备更有效地操作电力和能源系统。这将进一步促进国家的经济福祉。该研讨会将在IEEE电力与能源学会2014年大会（GM 2014）之前在华盛顿特区举行，为期两天（2014年7月26日至27日）。研讨会的成果有可能通过整合CPS概念来影响未来电力和能源领域的教育需求。研讨会的报告将刊登在IEEE电力、能源教育委员会的网站上，以便更广泛地分发。

Workshop on Cyber Physical Systems Education with Emphasis on the Electric Power GridThe past decade has seen many new advances in electric power and energy field. Specifically, newer smart grid technologies are being implemented, the share of renewable energy has increased multi-fold, and electric vehicles are gradually gaining popularity. Due to integration of these new technologies, operation of power systems has become more complex. Every aspect of power from generators to consumers now requires computers for operation and management. As a result of these developments, power systems have become large cyber-physical systems (CPS). As the power system becomes more complex, there will be continuing need to integrate advances in the cyber-physical systems area into operation, control, and design of power systems. This also poses the task of preparing the workforce of the future prepared to face the challenges of operating and managing the complex grid of the future. The goal of the proposed workshop is to tackle this task by examining the current state of affairs and proposing new educational concepts and ideas for the future. Although majority of the participants will be from the power and energy area, selected experts from the computations, communications, and control areas will be invited to participate in the workshop. This will allow the participants to learn about best practices in other areas to implement in power and energy systems. The workshop will focus on the latest advances in power and energy systems and CPS with a goal of integrating them for education of the future generation of engineers. The workshop will result in new strategies and ideas to fulfill these needs. Strategies identified through the workshop will result in educational content, which will promote better preparation of the future generation of power and energy engineers. These engineers will be prepared to operate the power and energy systems more efficiently. This will further lead to economic wellbeing of the country.The workshop will be conducted over a two-day period (July 26 and 27, 2014) in Washington DC prior to the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (GM 2014). The outcome of the workshop has potential to impact the educational needs of the future in the power and energy area with integration of CPS concepts. A report of the workshop will be placed on the IEEE Power, Energy Education Committee web site for wider distribution.