Educational Laboratories in High-Voltage Engineering

A survey was conducted on the availability of high-voltage educational laboratories in the universities of various countries. The purpose of the survey was to establish whether education in this area of electrical engineering has kept pace with industrial growth. The results show that in the United States only five such laboratories are known to be in active existence. These are not used for instruction but only for research. Elsewhere, 70 percent of all institutional laboratories were built after 1960. The survey has also revealed many interesting and surprising figures regarding the use, the equipment, the size, and the staff of their laboratories. It is concluded that a great need for such facilities to ameliorate the quality of instruction and research in high-voltage engineering exists in the United States.