Two Solutions To Aging Workforce Issues

摘要

By now, everyone in the power and energy industries is acutely aware of the issues and challenges that we face with a rapidly aging workforce. These range from a lack of new and sufficient technical engineering talent to various aspects of knowledge transfer and retained expertise. This column highlights two independent, yet complimentary initiatives that are providing relevant and proactive solutions to the industry challenges ahead: a new education and research initiative in power and energy engineering at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering driven by industry collaboration; and a new operations, planning and knowledge management service developed by KEMA Inc. in partnership with Google.