IEEE Power & Energy Magazine - January/February 2014 - 16

CAPESoftware

for Protection Engineering

as standards. one of the recent candidates for Pes leadership
suggested contacting employers directly and informing them
periodically about the important technical and other activities
that their employees contribute under the auspices of ieee and
Pes. other options include more extensive use of teleconferencing and the internet to bring as many stakeholders together
as possible while important technical work is being done.

Educational Activities

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Pes has been among the first ieee societies to identify and take
advantage of educational services as a means of enhancing valueadded proposition to our membership, as well as to boost our society's revenue. over the last few years, those offerings have begun to
generate surpluses and have enabled us to learn to successfully formulate future programs. We are planning an ambitious expansion
of educational programs, especially those geared toward practicing
engineers. They will cater to all career stages. The age demographics of Pes members is nonuniform. The natural replacement of
engineers in their fourth or fifth decade of career will bring about
a new generation of young learners, but even seasoned engineers
are seeking information and refreshers about new technologies that
are increasingly being deployed and implemented. The transition
to new generation technologies where renewables are prominently
featured has been taking place around the world for more than a
decade. it is also a topic of great interest for the practitioners, who
are and will continue to integrate the large amounts of new renewable power plants (in some countries already exceeding 15-20%
of the total generation portfolio) while continuing to offer services
like frequency and voltage control without deterioration in security, reliability, and system resilience. While practitioners around
the world are embracing the new technologies and learning about
the challenges of large-scale implementation of renewables, Pes
will assist them by developing short courses, tutorials, Webinars,
workshops, conferences, publications, and books to support their
quest for knowledge and to report on state-of-the-art implementation of the new technologies in the framework of modern cyberelectric power systems.

Continued Growth
All of the discussion presented here represents only a small
portion of our ongoing and planned activities. As we continue
to expand and internationalize our many initiatives, we are
constantly learning, sometimes from our own mistakes. Challenges of meeting the needs of a growing, multicultural, and
very international membership require that we continue to
transform and modify our centers of activities. Changes like
these will not happen overnight and will require consultation
with our large and growing membership base. in the process of
finding what is best for Pes and all of our members throughout the world, we will listen to our members carefully and act
cautiously. our goal as Pes elected leaders is to serve the professional, educational, and other needs of our members while
maintaining, preserving, and further enhancing and elevating
the reputation of Pes and ieee.
p&e

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