May 2013

PES Elections

Beginning in August, the voting membership of IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) will have the opportunity to elect our future leadership.

PES Careers

PES Careers is an IEEE PES service designed to specifically help undergraduate and graduate engineering students connect with employers in the power and energy industry.

Region 5 Chapter Report

Region 5 covers twenty two chapters from Denver to New Orleans or El Paso to St. Louis and had several active chapters this past year.

WiE: Alexandra Price

My name is Alexandra Price and I am a graduate power engineer at Energex Limited, an electricity distribution company in Queensland, Australia. Currently, I am working in the Future Network Technologies group where we are evaluating smart meters and distribution STATCOMs. I have been an …

Climate Change

What do you associate with climate change? Large United Nations climate conferences with hardly any tangible outcomes, like the one in 2009 in Copenhagen?

São Paulo Hosts ISGT

São Paulo, Brazil hosted the second IEEE/PES conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technology Latin America (IEEE ISGT LA) April, 13-17.
The conference drew 293 attendees from Latin America and other countries such as the USA, South Africa, South Korea, Germany, Canada, Portugal and Trinidad and Tobago. The …

IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative – April 2013

The IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative provides multi-year scholarships and career experience opportunities to qualifying U.S. electrical engineering undergraduate students. As long as the scholar continues to meet renewal standards, he or she will receive up to three years of funding — US$2,000 the first year, $2,000 …