Multidisciplinary Education using Curriculum Re-Engineering,Industry Partnership and Simulation Technology (MERIT 2000)

公用事业和相关制造业以及咨询和工程服务的变化是由持续的放松管制和日益激烈的竞争推动的。一种以客户为中心的新运营模式正在建立。这种方法不仅重新定义了谁是客户。而是客户想要什么，以及实现满足客户的目标有哪些选择。这个过程的一个明显后果是需要一个新的工程师形象，以适应新的范式。人们普遍认为，现有的电力工程教育不能提供所需的解决方案。因此，学术界需要“培养”一名具有新形象的工程师。这一策略在提案准备阶段就开始实施，并将在整个项目中继续实施，其目标非常明确，即使21世纪电力工程师的“生产者”和“消费者”共同努力创造新的教育概念。研究方法将是收集反映行业需求的行业顾问的意见，对现有的模拟技术进行评估，确定将包括在重新设计的课程中的多学科问题，并确定课堂和实验室教学的方法和实验示例。本建议的一个重要贡献是将新的模拟技术纳入教学过程，以提高学生的分析和实践技能。此外，仿真工具将用于提高传统电力工程主题的教学效率和压缩，以便将新的多学科主题添加到课程中。本提案主要侧重于本科教育，同时强调高中教育。研究生和继续教育也会被考虑。

ECS-9619294 Kezunovic The changes in the utility and related manufacturing industry, as well as consulting and engineering services have been driven by continuing de-regulation and increasing competition. A new paradigm of operation where the customer becomes the focus is being established. This approach not only redefines who the customer is. but what the customer wants and what are the options in achieving the goals of satisfying the customer. An obvious consequence of this process is a need for a new profile of an engineer that can fit the new paradigm. There is a wide consensus that the existing power engineering education does not offer the required solution. As a result, the aaademia needs to "produce" an engineer with a new profile. This strategy was pursued at the proposal preparation stage and will be continued throughout the project with a very clear goal to make the creation of the new education concept a joint effort between "producers" and "consumers" of the power engineers for the 21'st century. The research approach will be to assemble inputs from the industry advisors reflecting the industry needs, make an assessment of the existing simulation technology, identify multidisciplinary issues to be included in the re-engineered curriculum, and identify the methodology and experimental examples for classroom and laboratory teaching. An important contribution of this proposal will be incorporation of the new simulation technology into the teaching process to enhance student's analytical and practical skills. In addition, the simulation tools will be used to make the teaching of the traditional power engineering topics more efficient and compressed so that the new multidisciplinary topics can be added to the curriculum. This proposal is primarily focused on the undergraduate education with an addition emphasis on high school education. The graduate and continuine education will be considered as well.