Building a Robust Workforce in Electric Power Engineering
Date: March 16, 2023 – March 17, 2023
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
This two-day NSF–NAE workshop brought together educators, government laboratories, industry, and workforce-development partners to advance electric-power engineering education by democratizing access to technical learning. Co-located with the ECE Department Heads Association conference and co-sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories and ECEDHA, it addressed pipeline programs, community-college pathways, scholarship programs, international perspectives, interactive textbooks, and CUSP courses and laboratories.
Speakers
Objectives
Build a robust electric-power workforce by widening access to technical education, strengthening pathways from high school through graduate study, and sharing ready-to-adopt CUSP courses and hands-on laboratories.
Agenda
Thursday, March 16, 2023
- 7:00 am — Breakfast
- 8:00 am — Welcome and the Urgency of This Topic
- Prof. Randy Victora — Welcome remarks; Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
- John Janowiak — Welcome remarks, ECE Department Heads Association
- Prof. Siddharth Raju — Workshop mission and agenda, University of Minnesota
- Aranya Chakrabortty — Program Director, National Science Foundation
- CAPT Lynn J. Petersen, USN (Ret) — Program Officer, Office of Naval Research
- Al Romig — Role of the National Academy of Engineering; Executive Director, National Academy of Engineering
- Stan Atcitty — Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Sandia National Laboratories
- 10:00 am — Coffee Break and Networking
- 10:30 am — Education and Workforce Perspectives
- Pramod Khargonekar — Vice President for Research, University of California, Irvine
- Ahmed Rubaai — Head, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Howard University
- Joan Carter — Engineering Track, Inver Hills Community College
- Matt Brown — Teaching a Pipeline Course at Richfield High School
- 11:45 am — 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 college Certificate in Electric Power Engineering
- Overview of courses and laboratories for BS, MS, and PhD programs
- 12:30 pm — Lunch and Networking
- 1:30 pm — Panel: Rewarding Careers in Electric Power Engineering — Moderated by Charlie Smith, Energy Systems Integration Group
- 3:30 pm — Refreshment Break and Networking
- 4:00 pm — Relevance of Workforce-Development Efforts in Other Countries and Regions
- Africa — James Momoh, participating by Zoom
- Middle East — Osama Mohammed
- India — Bhuvaneswari Gurumoorthy, participating by Zoom; D. Venkataramanan
- 5:00 pm — Open Discussion and Development of Action Items
- 6:00 pm — Poster Presentations and Appetizers; families welcome
Friday, March 17, 2023
- 7:00 am — Breakfast
- 8:00 am — Additional Workforce-Development Efforts Underway
- Brandon Grainger — Professor, University of Pittsburgh; Co-Director, AMPED Consortium
- JR Jamora — Air Force Research Laboratory, Autonomy Technology Research Center
- Norbert Doerry — Naval Research Laboratory
- Douglas Fouts and Sheila Sklerov — Naval Postgraduate School
- 9:15 am — Interactive Textbooks — Ryan Barlow, zyBooks
- 9:45 am — Descriptions and Demonstrations of Courses and Online Laboratories — University of Minnesota Team
- 11:45 am — Adjourn
Recordings
1 Building A Robust Workforce in Electric Power Engineering by Democratizing Technical Education
2 Role of the National Academy of Engineering — Al Romig
3 International Perspective — India