Title :
Power engineering education scenario
Author :
Khan, N. ; Mariun, N. ; Mirza, Abdulrahman A.
Author_Institution :
Univ. Putra Malaysia, Selangor
Abstract :
Electrical power engineering education as career is continuously declining from last two decades all over the world. Utilities managers, electric equipment manufacturers, power professionals and electric engineering educationists are predicting an impending crisis of acute shortage of electrical engineers. Underground trend towards solid state electronics, telecommunication and biomedical engineering is manifestation of imminent predicament of electrical power professionals for operating and developing tomorrow´s electric power industries. This article discusses the compelling reasons behind the continued decline in power engineering education and suggest potential strategies to attract enrolment to this profession as career. Surely, career is bright but leaders have no lantern to guide power engineers to sun way lagoon
Keywords :
educational courses; power engineering education; biomedical engineering; career; electric equipment manufacturers; electric power industries; engineering educationists; power engineering education; power engineers; power professionals; solid state electronics; telecommunication; utilities managers; Biomedical engineering; Crisis management; Electronic equipment manufacture; Energy management; Engineering management; Engineering profession; Industrial electronics; Power engineering and energy; Power engineering education; Solid state circuits; Power career; Power courses; Power engineering education; Power systems;
Conference_Titel :
Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2006. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0493-2
DOI :
10.1109/PES.2006.1709384
