Annual Report for 2008
Key Achievements For 2008
The last 12 months have seen significant progress made in establishing API as the nationally recognised representative of the power industry in Australia on power engineering skills and education.
The API now has over 25 industry members from all sectors and States/Territories following the successful amalgamation with the Power Engineering Alliance (Qld).
The promotion of power engineering to young people has expanded from the continuation of the successful Power Engineering Bursary Program (for first year engineering students) to include a new website specifically targeted at 15-18 year olds (visit www.powerengineering.org.au to see for yourself) and a Facebook site for API Bursary recipients to communicate, called YAPers (Young Australian Power Engineers).
The engagement between API and over 14 universities across Australia has not only allowed industry to become more closely aligned with the power engineering academics at universities but API (including the PEA Amalgamation) has seen over $1 million provided to universities for laboratory upgrade projects and over $2 million provided to sponsor new academics (targeted at early career academics). This is all specifically targeted to improve the teaching and learning experiences of students at universities studying power engineering subjects/electives.