Update on the U.S. Power and Energy Engineering Workforce Collaborative

1. Dennis RayExecutive DirectorPower Systems Engineering Research Center Update on the U.S. Power and Energy Engineering Workforce Collaborative CEWD Regional Summit June 30, 2009

2. Initiatives by IEEE PES • Co-sponsoring the NSF Workshop on the Future Power and Energy Engineering Workforce, Nov. 2007 • Leading the Power and Energy Engineering Workforce Collaborative • Creating and communicating a new image of power engineers • Video being created in cooperation with CEWD

3. Initiatives by IEEE PES • Renaming and rebranding the IEEE PES • Developing a scholarship program • Hosting job fairs for students • Encouraging professional affiliation to graduating engineering students • Creating PES-Careers, a free on-line job board focusing on the power engineering student niche

5. Employer Opportunities • In U.S. and Canada can use it (free!) to find students for full-time, part-time and internship power engineering positions • Functions • profile their organizations for students • upload job openings • receive on-line job applications if desired • search student profiles for needed career interests and skills • search for students willing to work in their state • screen applications based on identified criteria (e.g., GPA, degree, etc.) • communicate with potential job candidates

6. Employers • Asked to encourage new power engineering employees to receive IEEE PES services by becoming regular members • Asked to provide forecasts of their engineering workforce needs • Needed to inform discussions about how to meet the need for new power engineers • Kept confidential! Data used for analysis only. • More information:http://www.ieee-pes.org/workforce/pes-careers

7. Collaborative’s Objectives Develop and communicate an image of a power engineer based on a realistic vision of how engineers will be solving challenges facing companies, regions, the nation, and the world, thereby improving the quality of life.

8. Collaborative’s Objectives Motivate interest in power and energy engineering careers and prepare students for a post-high school engineering education in power and energy engineering

9. Collaborative’s Objectives Make the higher education experience relevant, stimulating, and effective in training high quality and professional power and energy engineers

10. Collaborative’s Objectives Increase university research funding to find innovative solutions for pressing challenges and to enhance student education

11. Goals • Double the number of graduate and undergraduate students completing electric power and energy engineering degrees. • Provide $4 million in funding annually for undergraduate power engineering scholarships. • Create 2,000 internship and cooperative opportunities for electrical engineering students.

12. Goals • Hire 80 new faculty members over the next five years to replace retiring faculty, to meet increased enrollments, and to broaden educational offerings. • Raise annual research funding of university power engineering research by up to $50 million per year over the next five to eight years. • Create five University Centers of Excellence to conduct research and education, while also working to increase interest and advance expertise in the power and energy engineering field.

13. Organization • Executive Council • Management Steering Committee • Outreach and Image Working Group • Education Working Group • Research Working Group • More details at http://www.ieee-pes.org/workforce/workforce-collaborative/

14. Executive Council • Terry Boston, President and CEO, PJM Interconnection • José Delgado, Executive Chairman of the Board, American Transmission Company • Mike Howard, Senior Vice President, Research and Development, EPRI • Patricia Hoffman, Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, U.S. Department of Energy • Walter Jones, Executive Director, Office of Naval Research • Earnie Lehman, President and General Manager, Midwest Energy, Inc. • Alan Martin, Executive Vice President, Southern Company, and President and CEO, Southern Company Services • Joe McClelland, Director, Office of Electric Reliability, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission • Wanda Reder, President, IEEE Power & Energy Society, and Vice President, S&C Electric Company • Rick Sergel, President and CEO, North American Electric Reliability Corp. • Marsha Smith, Commissioner, Idaho Public Utilities Commission, and Past President, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners • Robert J. Thomas, Professor, Cornell University, and Founding Director, Power Systems Engineering Research Center • Vickie VanZandt, Senior Vice President (retired), Transmission Services, Bonneville Power Authority • Jerry Whitaker, President, Power Component and Systems Operations, Eaton Corp.

15. Recent Actions • Created a nationwide action plan entitled “Preparing the U.S. Foundation for Future Electric Energy Systems: A Strong Power and Energy Engineering Workforce” (available on Collaborative’s website) • Helped IEEE-USA to develop a position statement on use of $100M in electric delivery workforce training. Available at http://www.ieee-usa.org/policy/positions/index.html.

16. Stakeholder Action Recommendations • Universities • Community Colleges • K-12 • Research Org’s • IEEE PES • Employers • Industry associations • Regulators • NARUC • NERC • Dep. of Labor • Dep. of Energy • CEWD

17. Actions for Employers • Maintain workforce development and hiring activities in spite of the economic downturn to avoid future power system reliability problems due to massive delayed retirements • Communicate with university undergraduate students to offer an exciting image of an energy engineer’s work that will make a difference to the company, its employees, the region and beyond. Point out the new skills that engineers will be acquiring for successful transformation of the electric power system

18. Actions for Employers • Offer development opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students; examples include mentoring, scholarships, internships, cooperatives, senior capstone projects, part-time jobs, and research support. Research support can be provided by offering data, allowing testing of innovative ideas, enabling access to company engineers for information and guidance, and providing financial sponsorship through fellowships and research project support.

19. Actions for Employers • Seek beneficial opportunities through cooperation with universities. Talk with faculty about workforce needs and major business and technical challenges; listen to their education and research plans. Find ways to work together. • Communicate with college deans and department chairs about strategic corporate and industry challenges, innovations needed by industry, importance of educating students to become power and energy engineers, and the need to hire new faculty. Brainstorm about ways to maintain a high quality and cost efficient educational system. Again, find ways to work together.

20. Actions for Employers • Facilitate life-long learning through innovative programs with community colleges and universities. Reward participation in professional associations. • Participate in collaborative efforts among industry, government, and educational institutions to address workforce issues (such as state consortia formed with the assistance of the Center for Energy Workforce Development). Take advantage of opportunities to leverage company resources to achieve common objectives such as in building the student pipeline

21. Actions for Employers • Support retraining of electrical engineers from other disciplines to the power engineering field whether in hiring new employees or in cross-training existing employees.

22. Overall Objective The Collaborative is working for the transformation of relationships among industry, government and universities to find solutions to power and energy engineering workforce challenges. To keep in touch, join the Collaborative’s listserv at: http://www.ieee-pes.org/workforce/workforce-collaborative

23. Power Systems Engineering Research Center:An Example of an Industry-University Collaboration to Advance Research Innovation and to Educate the Next Generation of Power and Energy Engineers(http://www.pserc.org)

24. Power Systems Engineering Research Center Our core purpose: Empowering minds to engineer the future electric energy system What is important to us: Pursuing, discovering and transferring knowledge Producing highly qualified and trained engineers Collaborating in all we do

25. PSERC What we’re working toward: An efficient, secure, resilient, adaptable, and economic electric power infrastructure serving society A new generation of educated technical professionals in electric power Knowledgeable decision-makers on critical energy policy issues Sustained, quality university programs in electric power engineering

26. Collaborating Universities • Arizona State University- Gerald Heydt • University of California at Berkeley-Shmuel Oren • Carnegie Mellon University-Marija Ilic • Colorado School of Mines- P.K. Sen • Cornell University-Tim Mount • Georgia Institute of Technology- Sakis Meliopoulos • Howard University- James Momoh • University of Illinois at Urbana-Peter Sauer • Iowa State University-Jim McCalley • Texas A&M University- Mladen Kezunovic • Washington State University-Anjan Bose • University of Wisconsin-Madison-Chris DeMarco • Wichita State University- Ward Jewell

27. Industry Members ITC Holdings Co. MidAmerican Energy Co. Midwest ISO National Rural Elec. Coop. Asn. New York ISO New York Power Authority Pacific Gas and Electric PJM Interconnection PowerWorld Corp. Quanta Technology RTE - France Salt River ProjectSouthern California Edison Southern Company TVA Tri-State G&T U.S. DOE Western Area Power Admin. ABB American Electric Power American Transmission Co. AREVA T&D Arizona Public Service British Columbia Trans. Co. Bonneville Power Admin.California ISO CenterPoint Energy Duke Energy Entergy EPRI Exelon GE Energy FirstEnergy Institut de recherche d’Hydro-Québec (IREQ) ISO New England