Power Engineering and Telecommunications Engineering in the Context of Smart Grid

Speakers/Performers: Emir Macari, CSUS; Suresh Vadhva, CSUS
Abstract:
Very few improvements have been done to the electric grid in the past 50 years. Power engineering became a mature discipline with little new to offer society until recent years with the onset of smart grid, which has the potential to bring clean energy to our society.

However, in order to work, smart grid must become a matchmaker between two very different disciplines. Power engineering, the mature, dependable, discipline, and telecommunications, the innovative, rapidly evolving discipline. Power engineers and telecommunications engineers speak different languages and view their professions differently.

This talk will focus on how to develop smart grid engineers and how to ensure that power engineers and telecommunications engineers understand and communicate with each other to support smart grid.

Category:

Science & Technology

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