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Preface
The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and many other countries are pres-
ently experiencing a shortage of power engineers. The shortage is expected to get
worse in the U.S. where about 45% of the U.S. utility power engineers will become
eligible to retire in the next 5 years. They would require about 7000 new power
engineering graduates to replace them, and about equal number in the supporting
industries. At the same time, many countries are making huge investment in build-
ing new power plants and power grid that will require even more power engineers to
serve the industry. It is because of this trend that many univers