is the Pieper Family Endowed Chair in Servant-Leadership and Distinguished Lecturer in General Studies at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. He received a doctorate degree from Biola University in 1991 and has degrees in cultural anthropology and church history as well as theology and intercultural communications. He has books and articles on topics ranging from German folk customs to international business ethics, and has served as a consultant to the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the Walt Disney Company, the International Olympic Committee, US government, and eight foreign nations.
This paper presents an overview of a statewide program to assure an ample supply of reasonably priced, reliable energy for Wisconsin. To help meet this goal, the State of Wisconsin has embarked on a three-year, $64 million initiative to improve the energy usage of its major industries. The initiative focuses on three aspects of energy use: increased energy efficiency, decreased peak demand, and the inclusion of energy use as a consideration in the decision making and design processes used in industry. Rather than relying on incentives to improve energy usage, as was done in the past, this initiative relies on the process of market transformation: show all the users in a given market sector the benefits of improved energy usage and let the marketplace force the individual users to change. Ancillary benefits of this program include the reduction of the environmental impact from energy use and production, the ability to meet all the energy needs from within the state, and promotion economic growth in rural areas. This program is in addition to the other programs in the state that focus on residential energy use, renewable energy sources, and environmental research. The Milwaukee School of Engineering, as part of a nine-organization team, has been awarded the contract to administer the program. Some of the tasks in the market transformation process include: identify industries to partner with, provide technical assistance and energy audits, develop energy efficiency improvement plans, and measure and verify energy savings. This paper discusses the genesis of the program-why are we doing this rather than the energy suppliers (utilities), the contract team-the development and organization of the team, or who does what and why, and the first year's efforts-the implementation phase.
Enrollment in Electrical Power Engineering courses has been in a steady decline, and many institutions have dropped power and energy conversion courses. At the same time, the demand for engineers in the field has remained constant, and in some cases has increased significantly. To meet the demand for engineers in the electrical construction sector, the Milwaukee School of Engineering and local industry have worked together to develop a sequence of courses for a Building Electrical Power Systems Design Specialty in the Architectural Engineering program. This sequence includes four courses from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department: Electrical Systems, and three courses on Electrical Power Distribution Systems (system basics, small systems, and large systems). The Architectural Engineering and Building Construction Department offers five courses: Illumination for Buildings, Communication Systems, National Electrical Code, Electrical System Cost Estimating and Specifications, and Electrical Power Quality for Buildings. This paper describes the development of these courses, along with feedback from the first graduating class, current students, and industry.
This paper discusses the four-course sequence in building electrical power distribution systems offered in the Architectural Engineering program at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). The design specialty that allows MSOE to offer this sequence when other universities are eliminating their only course in electrical power systems is discussed first. The goals, objectives, and challenges of all four courses are then presented. The first course in the sequence is introductory. Students entering the building electrical design specialty, together with students in the building environmental systems and structural systems specialties, take this course. Therefore, the course must present the material at a level that will excite the students continuing in the specialty while providing sufficient breadth and depth to allow students in the other two specialties to effectively communicate with engineers in the electrical discipline. The next course in the sequence is only for students in the specialty. It provides the necessary theoretical foundation for the subsequent courses in the specialty. The main challenge with this course has been the steady drift of circuit analysis textbooks in the non-electrical major area away from building electrical examples and problems to a focus on automotive systems. The last two courses in the sequence focus on small commercial buildings and light industrial facilities, and then multistory buildings and large industrial facilities. Formal designs, including presentations, are required in both of these courses. Typically, one of the courses has individual projects, w hile the other course forces the students to work in teams. The order of the project assignments has been varied to deal with the strengths and weaknesses of the individual classes. These courses are currently offered as elective courses in the Electrical Engineering program, and, hopefully, in the future to students in the Mechanical Engineering program.
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