Integrating smart grid technologies into an electrical and computer engineering curriculum

The evolution of power engineering education is creating a need to develop educational materials to help train tomorrow's workforce as well as retool current engineering professionals. This paper discusses the development of a senior elective/graduate level smart grid class that is designed to help all engineers, particularly electrical engineers get introduced or updated to the smart grid concepts to allow them to take their undergraduate background in a diversity of technical areas (communications, controls, electronics, instrumentation, electromagnetics, computers and more) and understand how these areas integrate within the electric power grid.