Power Engineering and Telecommunications Engineering in the Context of Smart Grid

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 great innovation to a very important component of our society, energy..... clean energy!

However, in order to work, smart grid must become a matchmaker between two disciplines that are very different from each other and that have very different histories. Power engineering, the mature, sturdy, dependable, secure discipline with telecommunications (Cyber Engineering), the innovative, rapidly evolving, vulnerable discipline. Power engineers and telecommunications engineers speak very different languages and view their professions very differently.
Power must be dependable, and communications must be innovative.

This talk will focus on how to develop smart grid engineers and how to ensure that power engineers and telecommunications engineers understand and celebrate each other's contributions in support of smart grid.

Speakers: Emir Macari, CSUS; Suresh Vadhva, CSUS