Industry Needs – Workforce Development

• Opportunities– New PES Scholarship Program– Internships/Co-operative Program

Pair up and Discuss

• How can “power & energy” industry help you?

• How can universities help the “power & energy” industry?

Workforce Development• Industry help University

• Scholarship & Awards– Industrial speakers (spend time on campus)– Demonstrate diversity of ECE employment opportunities

within power & energy– Facility trips– Advisory Boards– Accreditation assistance– Discussions with Dean and upper administrators– $ and support where mouth is – Partnerships in proposals– Real work data and examples for classes and research– Cost sharing (may include in-kind) and support letters– K-12 Outreach– Understand research problems and data– Industrial based senior design projects– Help faculty understand industry short term needs– NSF GOALI– Internships (UG & Grad)– Industrial reps helping with advanced electives

• University help Industry– Listen to needs (may be regional) – curriculum changes or

updates including soft skills– Long term visions and concerns– Providing help in disseminating of information to the public– Educate all companies on how ECE’s can contribute– Provide their new workforce– Part-time graduate students– Sabbatical leave/summer work– Help understand how universities work– Help them with their internal education and on-site

education– Continuing education

• Re-training• Alternative education methods (evenings, weekends and on-line)• Certificates• Graduate degrees

University /Industry Interchange• Diversity best practices

Where to start?

• Recycle, Reuse and Reduce – Continue sharing best practices

• Check with IEEE societies in these areas that are working to provide support

Noel SchulzIEEE PES President-Elect

noels@ksu.edu