Overstreet, S. (2017, June), Developing America’s Next Generation of Electric Utility Professionals  Paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio. 10.18260/1-2--28138

\bibitem{asee_peer_28138}
  Overstreet, S. (2017, June), \emph{Developing America’s Next Generation of Electric Utility Professionals}
  Paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Columbus, Ohio.
  10.18260/1-2--28138

Sonya Overstreet.  "Developing America’s Next Generation of Electric Utility Professionals".  2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, 2017, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2017.  https://peer.asee.org/28138 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_28138}
  Sonya Overstreet.
  "Developing America’s Next Generation of Electric Utility Professionals".
  \emph{2017 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, 2017, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2017.
  https://peer.asee.org/28138 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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In today’s professional workplace environment, there is a mix of three distinct generations, baby boomer, generation x, and generation y also referred to as millennials. Baby boomers, the post-World War II generation born between 1946 and 1964. Generation X, born between 1965 and 1980 and millennials born between 1981 and 2000. As baby boomers age, they will continue to leave the workforce. With their departure years of knowledge, skill and experience are also leaving the workforce. The utility industry like many others is feeling the effect of baby boomer’s exodus to retirement. A variety of factors including the growing retirement eligibility and “…the generational shift in the traditional utility workforce…” (PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2013) is having an adverse effect on the utility industry.
	
As of June 2015, the millennial population reached 83.1 million surpassing the 74.5 million baby boomers (U.S. Census Bureau, 2015). According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor 46.2 million baby boomers, 46.9 million generation x and 46.4 million millennials were employed in the fourth quarter of 2014. Baby boomers began to reach retirement age, 65, in 2011.  All baby boomer will be over 65 by 2029 and will make up more than 20 percent of the U.S. population (Colby & Ortman, 2014).

This paper will discuss how an engineering services company is collaborating with one of the nation’s largest electric utility companies and local colleges to develop the next generation of electric utility professionals. “Company Name” has developed a unique engineering services model that embraces all three generations, baby boomer, generation x and millennials. The objectives of the model are (1) create a culture of learning, (2) reengage retired utility workers in the workforce, (3) develop midcareer electrical engineers, recent two-year electrical engineering technology and four-year electrical engineering graduates, (4) develop a talent pool for electric utility companies and (5) create an internship and recruitment program with local colleges

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