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Enhancing Electrical Power Engineering Expertise for Tomorrow's Workforce

This project addresses the need for upskilling in the electrical power engineering industry, focusing on resources for workforce development and university degree programs. Current progress includes new simulations, staff training, and collaborations with industry partners. The aim is to improve expertise and sustainability through innovative training methods and materials.

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Enhancing Electrical Power Engineering Expertise for Tomorrow's Workforce

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  1. Keeping the Lights On Prof Paul Lewin*, Dr Liwei Hao and Dr Justin Steele-Davies

  2. Introduction • Electrical Power Engineering Industry • Loss of expertise • Significant future change in infrastructure • Significant recruitment of Graduates • Limited electrical power content in degree courses • Clear need for resources to assist in upskilling the current/future workforce and also to provide materials for use within HEI degree programmes

  3. Current Progress Plus one from:

  4. Cable Circuit Design

  5. New simulations and experiments • http://ve.soton.ac.uk/ves/phasor.html • http://ve.soton.ac.uk/ves/electronics.html • Re – designed the style sheets for the demonstration site

  6. Issues and Barriers • Staff turn over • Training takes time • Getting to know the staff • eLearning staff have lots of projects • Academic Staff buy-in • Some keen, others required insentives • Creative Commons

  7. Pathways to Impact • National Grid • Two level approach; Training management team and Asset Engineers • Feedback from a NG foundation engineer in his 2nd year • Don’t like creative commons! • Electricity Alliance • Mot Macdonald meeting several avenues of collaboration. • Competency auditing, (Opportunity for cross integration) • Distance learning

  8. Pathways to Impact • Development of resources seen to be of great benefit to existing UoS Courses; • MSc in Energy and Sustainability with Electrical Power Engineering • Huge increase in size of cohort (40+ 2011/12) • Materials also available for Power Academy students – improve their knowledge prior to summer placements • Papers planned for submission to the IJEEE • Material being developed for Malaysia EEE degree • Sustainability of work

  9. Pathways to Impact; spin-off activity • Development of High Voltage Laboratory Induction materials • Health and Safety • Laboratory Organisation and Rules • Use of ‘virtual experiment’ approach to develop specific training for experiments • Large scale: 1 MV Impulse Generator • Fragile and/or expensive: Spectrometers

  10. Ensuring Sustainability • Locally: • Increased buy-in that output is very useful • Wider use of technology • HEIs: • Actively encourage use of materials • Industry: • Flexible approach to content in order to meet specific needs. • Will seek funding in order to develop additional modules (Mott Macdonald)

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