IEEE Power & Energy Magazine - July/August 2014 - 16

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nontechnical areas such as business, environmental, and
social concerns.

Innovative Projects
the ieee future Directions committee sponsors initiatives to facilitate exchange and incubate collaborations
across ieee that focus on large emerging multidisciplinary
topics such as the smart grid, cloud computing, electric
vehicles, green ict, internet of things, and life sciences.
in 2010, i launched ieee smart Grid as a front-running
future Directions initiative. since its inception, the ieee
smart Grid community has grown into a very active and
engaged audience consisting of 5,100+ technical community members, 20,000+ Linkedin group members, 5,700+
twitter followers, and 11,000+ opt-in newsletter recipients.
Because of its maturity, ieee smart Grid transitioned into Pes operations this year, under the very
capable leadership of Massoud Amin. ieee smart
Grid uses social media as a mechanism to engage the
community, and new metrics are used to understand
its effectiveness. the project's Klout score of 58.86
recognizes Pes as an influencer across multiple social
media platforms and its tweet level score of 58.7 identifies Pes as a twitter "ideastarter." the lessons learned
from using social media in ieee smart Grid are being
closely watched, and the methods are increasingly being
used by ieee to connect those with like interests.

Philanthropy
Another creative program that evolved under the Pes
umbrella in collaboration with the ieee foundation is
the ieee Pes scholarship Plus initiative. the goal of
this initiative is to provide scholarships and hands-on
career experiences to undergraduate students pursuing a
career in power engineering, in an effort to address anticipated industry attrition. A Us$10 million philanthropic
campaign was embarked upon to fund scholarships that
would attract the best and brightest to the field. to date,
Us$5.2 million has been raised through industry, foundation, individual, and ieee Member support. since
2011, over Us$1.1 million has been distributed via 549
scholarships to 364 students attending 137 universities
within the United states and canada. over 160 companies have hired a Pes scholar as an intern or a fulltime employee. A preliminary report of the Pes Power
& energy education committee survey shows that this
initiative is working! the survey indicates enrollment in
power engineering electives across the United states has
increased 20-50% since the program's inception.
soliciting philanthropic contributions from external
sources was unique to the ieee foundation when the
ieee Pes scholarship Plus initiative was launched.
now, after gaining experience, the ieee foundation
Board of Directors endorsed a new plan featuring its
future structure of Philanthropy that identifies signature

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