Electric Power Engineering Education Resources 2005–2006 IEEE Power Engineering Society Committee Report. The Power Engineering Education Committee (PEEC) Task Force on Educational Resources

This report is based on a survey of power engineering education resources in the U.S. and Canada similar to 12 earlier such efforts. This survey is conducted to determine the electric power engineering education resources available in Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET)-accredited engineering programs in the U.S. and Canada for the 2005-2006 academic year. The report is limited to colleges and universities that replied to a questionnaire on a voluntary basis. For the 125 colleges and universities (115 U.S., 10 Canadian) that submitted data on their power programs, the report contains a list of faculty active during the 2005-2006 academic year with academic participation and professional experience, each school's research area and funding levels, Ph.D. and M.S. student enrollment by type of support and by domestic versus international, and each school's power course offerings with enrollments and other data.     

Electrical Engineering Education in the U.S.

Electrical engineering education in the U.S. is described for comparison with other educational systems discussed in this issue on international education. Some of the changes that have taken place since World War II are given, including enrollments, popularity of fields in terms of student choice and employment opportunities, reduction in the structure of the curriculum, and differing views on the time required to reach the first engineering degree. Finally, some guidelines are offered for the future development of education for electrical engineering in the U. S.     

Electric power engineering education resources 2001-02 IEEE power engineering society committee report

This report is based on a survey of power engineering education resources in the U.S. and Canada similar to 12 earlier such efforts. This survey is conducted to determine the electric power engineering education resources available in Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited engineering programs in the U.S. and Canada for the 2001-02 academic year. The report is limited to colleges and universities that replied to a questionnaire on a voluntary basis. For the 115 colleges and universities (107 U.S., 8 Canadian) that submitted data on their power programs, the report contains a list of faculty active during the 2001-02 academic year with academic participation and professional experience, each school's research area and funding levels, Ph.D. and MS student enrollment by type of support and by domestic versus international, and each school's power course offerings with enrollments and other data.     

Human-centered manufacturing for the developing world

One of the most important issues in designing human-centered systems must be to understand the driving force-the human components. The point is simple: when developing the solution to any engineering problem, the designer must understand the capacities, the inherent nature and all the operational characteristics of the component parts available for constructing the final system. Designers now must understand the inherent nature of the people who will be part of the final systems. Of importance too is the very evident fact that each person is an individual and each national grouping has its own distinctive characteristics. Thus, human-centered manufacturing systems will need to be customized to meet local conditions. The starting point is to understand why people work. Only by appreciating this can designers begin to integrate people effectively into systems. Getting any developing country back into manufacturing requires the recognition that any production facility must be optimized to produce products which compete on a global scale, and must be designed to take into consideration all local factors. In searching for the appropriate mix of humans and machines, the local situation is critical, and so is the need to understand, and subsequently to use in the design of manufacturing systems, the cultural aspects of the humans who will be involved     

A computer-aided, total quality approach to manufacturing educationin engineering

This paper describes an ongoing study in improving entry-level engineering education through the deployment of new teaching and learning tools. We introduce a computer-aided interactive multimedia manufacturing courseware. To improve manufacturing education we need to change not only the process of teaching and learning, but also provide new tools and technology that promote efficient learning and make it widely available and continuously improving. To address this manufacturing education challenge, we are presently designing a program based on a new computer-aided education paradigm that embodies total quality management (TQM) and critical thinking (CT) concepts. An interactive multimedia manufacturing courseware lies at the heart of this new computer-aided education paradigm. The manufacturing engineering multimedia courseware (MEMC) includes: on-line lectures, audiovideo education tools, interactive computer software, on-line assignment and exams, information about faculty, and on-line evaluation tools to obtain users' feedback to enhance teaching. It also makes access available to related academia, industry, and government research and education information through the World Wide Web. In this paper, we briefly review the status of engineering education in the United States and describe the appropriateness of unifying the concepts of TQM and CT. Additionally, we provide details of how these concepts can be used in an educational model     

从焊接人员的国际认证解读工程教育和工程师资格国际互认的意义

企业要想参与国际间的竞争,首先就要解决产品的国际互认或认可,而人才在企业产品的生产中起着至关重要的作用,人才的国际互认至关重要。以我国焊接人员国际认证为主线,简述了我国高等工程教育的现状和发展趋势,论述了高等工程教育和工程师资格国际互认的意义。     

出口美国大容量移相变压器的研制

出口美国的三相300MVA／230kV移相变压器为国内自行研制的首台大容量移相变压器。文章从基本原理、技术参数、产品结构、设计中提高变压器可靠性采用的关键技术等方面作了详细分析介绍。该产品于2004年初在美国投入运行，至今运行情况良好。该产品的研制成功，证明我国已经具备了大容量移相变压器的设计制造能力。     

Assessing experiences of international students in Haiti and Benin

The past two decades have seen an increase in international experiences for engineering students focused on service and research in developing countries. Motivation for these programs reflects the growing recognition that there is a need for creating engineers with greater global awareness [18] who are familiar with the need for integrating solutions to complex problems through interdisciplinary approaches [12]. Of particular interest have been programs in humanitarian engineering that address these needs while at the same time contributing to the attractiveness of engineering, helping to bridge the gender gap that has challenged engineering education, and providing new opportunities to see engineering in a broader global/ethical realm [3], [11], [12], [14], [16], [30].     

浅谈国际工程承包

国际工程承包是世界经济交往和技术合作的一种重要方式,随着世界经济区域化和一体化双重趋势的持续发展,国际工程承包市场的开放程度日益提高,竞争日趋激烈。特别是我国加入WTO后,给对外承包事业带来了新一轮发展机遇,许多国内大型国际承包集团,越来越多地参与国际工程承包市场的竞标活动,直接面对世界知名的大承包集团的挑战,从而对我国的承包商的管理水平、工程承包经营水平和技术装备能力提出了更高的要求。针对目前国际工程承包市场的现状,阐述了我国大型承包公司和集团应该采取的发展战略和竞争策略、承包经营的方法、投标“三必须”、施工合作伙伴的选择、公共关系的建立等。     

基于半导体照明新兴产业人才培养的本科工程教育研究

半导体照明是重要的新兴产业,日亚、Axitron、Osram、Philps、Cree等国际主要光源生产公司在传统照明及半导体照明领域中已经占据了一定的领先优势。我国的光源及照明生产企业也在奋起直追,发展非常迅猛,在人才需求方面也更为急切和严格。本文提出围绕新兴产业的人才需求,以国际工程师认证要求为培养目标,建立光源与照明等特色学科的专业课程和工程教育培养体系。各校需要根据当地产业集群发展和本校实际情况来因地制宜地开展工程教育教学和实践,以产学研结合的模式实现人才的综合培养。最终完善专业工程教育评价机制,力促半导体照明专业的工程教育系统地开展,培养符合国际水准的工程师。     

New partnerships in bioengineering education and research at theNSF

The world of the 21st century will be swifter, more complex, and more connected. Solutions to tomorrow's problems will require the contributions of many disciplines and points of view. There will be tremendous challenges and opportunities for engineers-all engineers-but especially those in the field of bioengineering. Consider the problem the nation now faces with respect to the health care system. Engineers can and must be part of the solution-but to be successful in this dynamic environment, engineering graduates will need more than first-rate technical skills. They must also be able to work in teams and communicate well. Equally important, they must be able to view their work from a systems approach-across disciplines-and within the context of ethical, political, international, environmental, and economic considerations. It is time that one addresses the adequacy of engineering education to meet these demands. To educate such graduates, engineering colleges must develop and strengthen partnerships with industry, government and the broader educational community. University leaders must provide vision and support for these efforts. Likewise, industry must become more involved in the education of their current and future engineers. NSF is and will continue to do its part to encourage partnerships and foster educational experimentation and innovation at every level. In sum, partnerships are the key to ensuring U.S. engineering education is relevant, attractive and connected to its clients and stakeholders and to the nation at large     

An Overview of Electronics Education in Poland and Rumania

To promote mutual understanding and exchange scientific ideas, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has established exchange programs with Eastern European countries. This article reports some factual information and personal impressions of engineering education in general and electronics education in particular after a month-long trip to Poland and Rumania.     

University Education in Electronics in the United Kingdom

Although the overall aims of university engineering education in the U. S. A. and the U. K. are broadly similar, the means of achieving these aims in the two countries are rather different. This paper discusses teaching methods and philosophies in the Department of Electronics at the University of Southampton and compares them with attitudes in the U. S. A. First, high-school curricula in the U. K. are reviewed, as they determine the quality of students at university entry. Then, the probable future pattern of industry, and the aims of a university education are discu sed. The courses devised to train both "systems" and "device" engineers, including the all-important laboratory training, are outlined together with examination and assessment techniques. Postgraduate activities include a new type of postgraduate Master's degree course in semiconductor product technology and industrial techniques.     

U.S. energy,climate and nuclear power policy in the 21st century: The primacy of national security

This paper analyzes global and regional energy and CO₂ trends and concludes: 1) Domestic U.S. policies alone will not insulate the U.S. from the impacts of climate change; 2) The U.S. should triage climate change as a global threat by focusing on regions where CO₂ emissions are most acute; and 3) The U.S. civilian nuclear enterprise should be elevated in U.S. energy and climate policy in order to meet global climate and national security objectives.     

Home Study Continuing Education in Electronics Engineering

The role of a proprietary school like McGraw-Hill will be defined as a purveyor of education in electronics engineering by means of home study. The advantages of home study education with respect to a student having the choice of studying when he wants to, where he wants to, and at what rate will be described. The history of U. S. home study education and its viability when compared in a research sense with traditional residence instruction will be traced. And lastly, the future role of home study in electronics engineering will be predicted. As one futuristic step, a current affiliation between a proprietary school and an accredited university, as a progressive step in providing a path by which a student can earn an associate or baccalaureate degree in electronics, will be described in detail.     

Collateral damage: American science and the war on terrorism

In the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States government undertook a rushed effort to increase security. In addition to new legislation such as the Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the government dramatically ramped up enforcement of laws that have long been on the books, and revised its policies to deal with new terrorist threats. While the need for increased security is undeniable, the costs of security measures need to be weighed as well, in terms of collateral damage they produce to the U.S. science and engineering (S&E) enterprise. In this article we focus on two main problems: the increasing difficulties faced by students and scientists from abroad in obtaining visas to visit and study in the United States, and the barriers that are being erected to communication and collaboration between U.S. investigators and international scholars.     

Engineering/Technical Education for Developing Countries' Needs

This is a reflective approach to engineering and technician training from the viewpoint of a developing country's needs. It weighs past experience and future needs in terms of what the educational institutions in the developing country can do to become more deeply involved in their own country's development and how U. S. educational institutions can assist. It also isolates, for illustrative purposes, power engineering education but also ties that into one of the most crucial current and future needs of developing countries-"energy."     

Empirical Analysis of the Impact of 2003 Blackout on Security Values of U.S. Utilities and Electrical Equipment Manufacturing Firms

On August 14, 2003, the U.S. faced the largest blackout in history, which left over 50 million people without electricity in eight U.S. states and part of Canada. This paper investigates the effects of the blackout on the security values of the U.S. electric utilities and manufacturing firms in the electric power equipment industry, using an event study method. The results of this empirical study show that the electric utilities were negatively affected, but the electrical equipment manufacturing firms were significantly, positively affected.     

A cost-effective approach for the development of an integratedPC-PLC-robot system for industrial engineering education

Advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) instruction is and is likely to remain an important component of the industrial engineering education curriculum. As new manufacturing technologies become available and as existing manufacturing technologies become more integrated, industrial engineering departments must continuously develop their laboratory resources in order to provide their students with effective instruction. While financially limited departments cannot acquire state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment, they can provide improved hands-on AMT integration instruction without major capital investment. By developing an interface box between existing LabVolt PLC trainers and Microbot TeachMover robots, the industrial engineering department at a major Northeastern US university was able to provide its students with improved AMT integration instruction     

An Undergraduate Course in Applied Magnetics

This paper points out a need for better education in applied magnetics in order to serve a broad spectrum of electrical engineering interests. Described here is a proposed partial solution to this need, an undergraduate course that demonstrates the wide applicability of a few fundamental principles. Two introductory concepts of the course are the characterization of a magnetic device in units of volt-seconds versus current, and the definition of a piecewise linear magnetic model. These are illustrated by an example in the Appendix. The piecewise linear model provides a point of departure for the study of magnetic materials while also allowing some analytical relief to the empirical aspects of magnetics design.