Challenges and Opportunities in Power Engineering Education at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions

Providing a power engineering education at primarily undergraduate intuitions (PUIs) presents several challenges including small departments with resource constraints, high teaching loads in curricula with little room for power courses, and research projects that must be scaled to account for the lack of Ph.D. students. PUIs can, however, offer unique opportunities for deep interdisciplinarity that leads to graduates who are well-rounded global citizens. Courses from across the institution in the arts, humanities and social sciences can be consider issues related to power and energy, and could even be team-taught with engineering faculty. This panel discusses the challenges and opportunities presented by PUIs to the education of power engineers. It seeks to foster lively discussions surrounding the aforementioned issues and raise questions surrounding the details of the modern power engineering experience at PUIs. Presentations in this panel session: - Power engineering education in a liberal arts setting (23PESGM2766) - Developing an Undergraduate Research Program in Alternative Energy and Electric Power Systems (23PESGM2767) - A Closed-loop Power Engineering Education and Learning for Next-generation Smart Grid Workforce (23PESGM2769) - Utilization of the Flipped Classroom Model for Power Engineering Undergraduate Education (23PESGM2771)