Today's aging workforce - Who will fill their shoes?

2011 64th Annual Conference for Protective Relay Engineers

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 483-491

  Grice, Amy ^a   Peer, Jackie M ^b   Morris, Greg T ^b  

^a Tacoma Power ^*  (United States)

^b SCHWEITZER ENGINEERING LABORATORIES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING WORKFORCE; CATASTROPHIC EFFECTS; EDUCATION PROGRAMS; ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRIES; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAMS; ENGINEERING GRADUATES; ENGINEERING PROGRAM; GREEN POWER; GREEN SOLUTION; HANDS-ON EXPERIENCES; KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE; LABOR REQUIREMENTS; POSITIVE EXAMPLES; POWER INDUSTRY; QUALIFIED PERSONNEL; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SKILLED WORKERS; SMART GRID;

ELECTRIC INDUSTRY; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRICITY; ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; POWER GENERATION; POWER TRANSMISSION; RELAY PROTECTION; STUDENTS;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

EID: 80054995044     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CPRE.2011.6035641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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