Conference - April 21-24XXX Exposition - April 22-24

Collegiate/GOLD Program

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Collegiate/GOLD Activities Connect Students and Recent Graduates with Experts in the Industry

Undergraduate students, graduate students and Graduates of the last decade are invited to join us for the Collegiate/GOLD program. Highlights of the program will include a collegiate poster session with prizes, a collegiate/GOLD reception, a collegiate job fair, an interactive industry roundtable session, an industry-led tour of the exhibit hall and a collegiate/GOLD luncheon. These activities will provide an excellent opportunity for students and recent graduates to network with industry representatives.

For more information about the Student Poster Contest, as well as the Student Hotel Support Program, please visit the  IEEE-PES Student Meetings Subcommittee web page.

The future engineers of the electric power industry who are enrolled and studying at colleges and universities will have an opportunity to present papers they have prepared under the supervision of a sponsoring professor. The participating student and author of each paper is required to be either an undergraduate or graduate student at the time of the conference. The papers and presentations will be judged and evaluated by a panel of engineers from the industry and higher learning.

Students are reminded that conference badges will be required for all conference functions including
entry into the exhibit area. Watch for further information on this site and in the upcoming Technical Program which is due to be issued in the near future. All inquiries about the Collegiate/GOLD program should be addressed in e-mail format to Alex Flueck.




Collegiate/GOLD/ Industry Luncheon
Wednesday, April 23, 11:30 am-1:00 pm
McCormick Place, Meeting Rooms

Integrating Large-Scale Remote (Wind) Resources Into the Grid
Paul McCoy, President and co-founder of Trans-Elect

Trans-Elect was the first independent electric transmission company in North America. The company purchased the
transmission assets of Consumers Energy in Michigan and became a co-general partner of a consortium that acquired the transmission assets of TransAlta in Alberta Canada.  Trans-Elect also partnered with Pacific Gas and Electric and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Western Area Power Administration to develop California's Path 15 transmission line.

Before co-founding Trans-Elect, McCoy spent 27 years at Commonwealth Edison. At ComEd, he served for 7 years as a member of the senior executive policy team, and had direct responsibility for the planning, design, operation, and construction functions for the company’s transmission and distribution systems.