Crisis in Power Engineering Education: A National Security Concern
Date: October 21, 2022 – October 22, 2022
Location: Graduate Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota
This two-day NSF–NAE workshop convened leaders from government, academia, industry, K–12 education, and community and technical colleges to address the national shortage of power-engineering talent. Participants examined multiple pathways into the field, rewarding careers across the power sector, and freely available CUSP courses and laboratories for workforce development.
Speakers
Objectives
Develop practical pathways for rebuilding the electric-power workforce, from high-school pipeline courses and community-college certificates through BS, MS, and PhD programs, while connecting learners with secure and financially rewarding careers.
Agenda
Friday, October 21, 2022
- 8:00 am — Welcome and the Urgency of This Topic
- U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar — Recorded video
- Andrew Alleyne — Dean, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
- Aranya Chakrabortty — Program Director, National Science Foundation
- CAPT Lynn J. Petersen, USN (Ret) — Program Officer, Office of Naval Research
- Guru Madhavan — Senior Director of Programs and Senior Scholar, National Academy of Engineering
- Mingyan Liu — Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor; Treasurer, ECE Department Heads Association
- 9:45 am — Workforce Needed to Benefit from New Federal Budget Appropriations — Isik Kizilyalli, Associate Director, ARPA-E
- 10:15 am — Coffee Break
- 10:30 am — Enrollment in the Electrical Engineering Program at Howard University — Ahmed Rubaai, Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- 10:50 am — Role of Community and Technical Colleges — Larry Lundblad, Executive Director of Workforce and Economic Development, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
- 11:10 am — Creating a Pipeline from High Schools into Power Engineering — Joe Gothard, Superintendent, and Anna Morawiecki, Career Pathways Supervisor, Saint Paul Public Schools
- 11:30 am — Lunch and Luncheon Address: The Mission of Public Land-Grant Universities — David McMillan, Chancellor, University of Minnesota Duluth
- 12:30 pm — Proposed Multiple Pathways to a Robust Power Engineering Education — University of Minnesota Team
- Pipeline course and laboratory for high schools
- Three proposed courses and laboratories for a community or technical college Certificate in Power Engineering
- Overview of courses and laboratories for BS, MS, and PhD programs
- 1:30 pm — Lightning Talks: Combining Personal Passion with Secure and Financially Rewarding Careers in Power Engineering
- Electric utilities — John Reinhart, Great River Energy
- Renewables and storage plants — Jim Greer, ACES Delta; Anushree Ramanath, Form Energy
- Future of electric vehicles — Jukka Kukkonen, author of 12 EV Trends to Watch
- 3:00 pm — Coffee Break
- 3:15 pm — Lightning Talks, Continued
- Automotive, electric vehicles, and EV charging — Kartik Iyer, Tesla
- Industrial manufacturing — Brad Palmer, Cummins Power Generation; Brij Singh, John Deere; Mukul Rastogi, Siemens USA
- Microchip manufacturing — Sameer Shekhar, Intel
- Defense — Roger Brewer, Lockheed Martin
- 5:00 pm — Open Discussion and Development of Action Items
- 6:00 pm — Poster Presentations and Appetizers
Saturday, October 22, 2022
- 8:30 am — Descriptions and Demonstrations of Courses and Online Laboratories — University of Minnesota Team: Ned Mohan, Bill Robbins, Siddharth Raju, David Maiden Mueller, Madhukar Rao Airineni, and Swaroop Guggilam
- Freshman and sophomore level — Solutions to Climate Crisis; Sustainable Electricity Supply
- Senior and graduate level — Power Systems; Power Electronics; Electric Machines and Drives and Their Control; Energy Conversion and Storage
- 11:30 am — Adjourn
Recordings
1 Workshop Agenda Presentation — Prof. Ned Mohan
2 Senator Amy Klobuchar
3 Dean Andrew Alleyne
4 Aranya Chakrabortty — National Science Foundation
5 Lynn J. Petersen — Office of Naval Research
6 Guru Madhavan — National Academy of Engineering
7 Mingyan Liu — University of Michigan
8 Ahmed Rubaai — Howard University
9 Larry Lundblad — Community and Technical Colleges
10 Anna Morawiecki — Saint Paul Public Schools
11 David McMillan — University of Minnesota Duluth
12 Proposed Multiple Pathways — Prof. Ned Mohan
13 John Reinhart — Great River Energy
14 Jim Greer — ACES Delta
15 Anushree Ramanath — Form Energy
16 Future of EVs — Jukka Kukkonen
17 Kartik Iyer — Tesla
18 Brad Palmer — Cummins Power Generation
19 Brij Singh — John Deere
20 Mukul Rastogi — Siemens USA
21 Sameer Shekhar — Intel
22 Roger Brewer — Lockheed Martin