Organizing research and educational consortia

Power engineering is not a popular area for electrical engineering (EE) students today. However, power programs are competing with other popular areas in EE for outstanding undergraduate and graduate students. Multi-university consortia pooled the resources and talents together to allow a team of researchers and educators to work on globally important areas. Therefore, the consortia can be greatly helpful in increasing the visibility of power engineering as an important, innovative and multi-disciplinary field. These consortia invariably require strong support from the industry, government and institutions.