The objective of this Workshop proposal, supported by the Energy, Power and Adaptive Systems program in ECCS is to increase the participation of faculty across the nation in three workshops planned to disseminate educational material and approaches developed at the University of Minnesota through the ONR Grant "Center for Reforming Undergraduate Education in Electric Energy Systems." This effort was aided by a previous NSF grant "ONR/NSF-Sponsored Workshop: Reforming Electric Energy Systems Curriculum." Through these two grants, five faculty workshops were held and three more are planned to promote curriculum reform in undergraduate education in Electric Energy Systems.
The objective of this project was to continue the dissemination of the educational material and approaches developed at the University of Minnesota through the ONR Grant "Center for Reforming Undergraduate Education in Electric Energy Systems" at the University of Minnesota. This effort was aided by an NSF grant "ONR/NSF-Sponsored Workshop: Reforming Electric Energy Systems Curriculum." In this project, three workshops were held towards the project goal during Feb 2-5, 2012, Feb 7-10, 2013 and Feb 6-9, 2014 in Napa, CA. Each workshop had nearly 150 participants including approximately 50 academic administrators (ECE Dept Heads, Engineering, etc.). As an example, the agenda for the 2014 workshop was as follows: Workshop Objectives: Discuss the Electric Energy Systems Curriculum with emphasis on Sustainability – Describe and disseminate the developed undergraduate curriculum – Describe the graduate curriculum being developed through ONR funding – Create a large and vibrant community of teaching/learning scholars – Provide details of various project tasks in conjunction with ONR 6.1 Program Review Thursday, February 6, 2014 - Arrival Friday, February 7, 2014 8:00-9:00 Welcome Remarks - Dr. Mostafa Kaveh, Associate Dean for Research and Planning, University of Minnesota - Dr. Peter Cho, Program Officer, Office of Naval Research (ONR) - Dr. Pramod Khargonekar, Assistant Director and Head of Engineering Directorate - NSF 9:00-10:00 Power-Related CUSP™ Curriculum - Ned Mohan, UMN 10:00-10:45 Open Discussion and Networking - Coffee break 10:45-11:30 ONR-funded Graduate Curriculum Development – Part 1 Graduate course on Power Electronics (Moderator: Bill Robbins, Hari Krishnaswami, Prasad Enjeti, Eric Persson, Amit Jain, Chris Henze); Nisa Khan on LED Lighting 11:30-1:00 p.m. Networking and Lunch (on your own) 1:00-3:00 ONR-funded Graduate Curriculum Development – Part 2 Graduate Course on Power Systems (Moderator: Sairaj Dhople, Clark Gellings, Virgilio Centeno, Dharshana Mithumuni, Ram Adapa, Ned Mohan) Power System Protection: Pratap Mysore, HDR Inc. Designing Electric Machines: Jim Hendershot, MotorSolver Electric Machines and Drives - Modeling and Control: Ted Brekken, Oregon State Univ. 3:00-5:00 Poster Session and Reception (Eric Severson, Santhosh Krishnamoorthi) Saturday, February 8, 2014 8:00-8:30 Welcome Remarks and the Role of Online Education in Large Public Universities such as the University of Minnesota: Dr. Karen Hanson, Senior VP for Academic Affairs and Provost - UMN 8:30-10:30 Importance of Reform in Engineering and Electric Energy Educatio Moderator: Allison Kipple, Northern Arizona University Panelists: - Mr. Clark Gellings, Fellow, EPRI - Dr. Dejan Sobajic, Technical Advisor – NYISO - Dr. Samir El-Ghazaly, Division Director of ECCS – NSF - Prof. Allison Kipple – Northern Arizona University 10:30-11:00 Open Discussion and Networking - Coffee break 11:00-12:00 ONR-funded Graduate Curriculum Development – Part 2 Electricity Markets: Ross Baldick, UT - Austin Power Generation, Operation and Control: Bruce Wollenberg - UMN Wind Energy Essentials: Mos Kaveh - UMN 12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own) and Working Group Meetings (lunch provided) ECE Dept Heads/Engineering Deans Working Group: Chair – Dr. Sarah Rajala, Dean of Engineering, Iowa State Universi Curriculum Advisory Board: Chair – Pam Bagley, Great River Energy 1:30-3:00 Reports of the Working Groups and Discussion 3:00-5:00 Coffee + Group Discussion (Moderator: Paul Imbertson) 6:00-8:00 Dinner; After-Dinner Speaker: Dr. Alex Papalexopoulos - IEEE Fellow, President and CEO of ECCO International on "Electricity Markets: what are they, why we need them, and how do they work?" Sunday, February 9, 2014 - Departure These workshops met the intellectual merit and the broader impact criteria of this project.
