UNIVERSITY TEACHING RESOURCES

It is a true collaborative program between the Australian Power Institute and its university partners (Curtin University, Queensland University of Technology, University of Queensland, University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, University of Tasmania, University of Technology Sydney, Victoria University, and University of Adelaide) who were represented through a Strategy and Steering Committee. 

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In 2008, the API Strategy and Steering Committee was chartered with the task of, “developing innovative strategies aimed at achieving the objective for the project of providing increased quantity and quality of power engineering graduates to meet industry’s needs (estimated in excess of 1400 to 2000 new graduates are needed over the next 5 years) by drawing on the expertise and specialised skills from a rationalised group of universities that have a critical mass of power engineering capability”.

 

In order to accomplish this, the Collaborative Power Engineering Centres of Excellence Project was established with the following specific objectives:

• Provide access for 3rd and 4th year undergraduate students and post-graduate students across Australia to World Class power engineering education and learning, by utilising the expertise/specialised skills at a rationalised group of universities, working collaboratively to deliver this outcome.

• Ensure effective Industry and University participation in defining the required competencies of students (for now and in the future) that will result in a close match between industry expectations and graduate attributes

• Facilitate a collaborative approach to support the most efficient use of scarce power engineering academic resources (both people and laboratories/equipment) across the country, using the resources of API, its partner universities and CASR funding.