Education
TCIPG engages with students and the public at every level from grade school through graduate school and professional development.
For students in primary school through high school, TCIPG, and its predecessor TCIP, have developed a series of online tutorials explaining various aspects of power generation and distribution. These applets have a range of difficulty levels, and include simple ones suitable for young children as well as ones challenging enough to interest adult members of the general public. They are all suitable for middle-school-level education about power. For more information, follow the below links.
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Educational applets prepared by the Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (MSTE) program at Illinois:
- Power and Energy in the Home
- Electricity and Time-Sensitive Pricing
- The Power Grid
- Power Economics and Emissions
- Wind and Storage
For undergraduate students at any university, research internships working on TCIPG are available under the ITI Undergraduate Summer Internship Program; graduate students enrolled at participating TCIPG universities can work on TCIPG by obtaining research assistantships with TCIPG faculty. Other research project opportunities may be available for both undergraduates and graduates at the TCIPG partner institutions. Interested students should contact appropriate faculty members directly to inquire.
For professional/continuing education, TCIPG offers week-long intensive Summer Schools. Links to past and upcoming Summer Schools are shown below.
- 2013 Summer School - Location TBA, June 17-21, 2013.
- Cyber Security for Smart Energy Systems Summer School 2011, Q Center, St. Charles, Illinois, June 13-17, 2011.
- Cyber Security for Process Control Systems Summer School 2008, Fontana, Wisconsin, June 16-20, 2008.
Finally, TCIPG engages in public outreach through occasional participation in the annual Engineering Open House at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and through the ongoing interactive "Mission Smart Grid" exhibit at the Orpheum Children's Science Museum in Champaign, Illinois. The exhibit, which is supported and co-developed by TCIPG, teaches visitors about electricity production and delivery by exploring how new technologies will increase options for consumers to use electronic devices to manage their electricity consumption.