Strategies to address the problem of exiting expertise in the electric power industry

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ray, Dennis ^a   Snyder, Bill ^b  

^a Power Systems Engineering Research Center   (United States)

^b KEMA   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY; POLICYMAKING; WORKFORCE LOSSES;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; OUTSOURCING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; PUBLIC POLICY;

ELECTRIC INDUSTRY;

EID: 33749603000     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.440     Document Type: Conference Paper

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