A paper titled “The design of a Masters curriculum in Smart Grid Technology within the Erasmus + K2 DAMOC project” by Prof Anthony Staak and Prof Raynitchka Tzoneva was presented at the 11^th International Conference on Engineering and Business Education (ICEBE) which was hosted by the University of Szczecin, in Szczecin Poland from 15^th – 17^th October 2018.

The conference covered a wide range of topics related to engineering and business education from innovative methods, multimedia applications and knowledge management in engineering and business education to social entrepreneurship and cooperation between academia and business.

This paper was presented in a parallel session with the theme “New Curriculum Development” and dealt with the curriculum challenges experienced in the design and development of the new master programme on smart grid technology at CPUT.

The paper was generally well received, though most of the questions related to the parastatal power utility, ESKOM, its position on renewable energy and the challenges it would encounter integrating renewables into the grid.

An article about our Teaching Staff Training in the end of 2017 was published at the website of Karlstad University.

The article can be accessed here in English.

During a meeting at the European Project Center in Dresden our project was mentioned as an example for an Erasmus+ project. The meeting focused on informations regarding EU projects and in the presentation about Erasmus+ projects DAMOC was mentioned as one example of running Erasmus projects at TU Dresden. The Agenda of the meeting is available here (German).