Mission Statement
Our mission is to strengthen member’s professionalism, enhance academic goals by providing Electrical Industry knowledge, and ultimately assist members in achieving internship and fulltime employment.
About Us
The Power Engineering Society (now Power and Energy Society) at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo was established in 1981, received its IEEE/PES National Student Chapter in 1982, and was founded on three main goals:
- To provide input to the curriculum by following current industry trends and maintaining a strong relationship between Cal Poly and the power engineering industry.
- To establish professional engineering attitudes by involving students in a professional engineering society.
- To strengthen student/faculty relationship by providing cooperative social activities.
IEEE Power & Energy Society
The IEEE Power & Energy Society is a worldwide, non-profit association of
more than 26,000 individuals engaged in the electric power energy industry.
Our mission is to be the leading provider of scientific information on
electric power and energy for the betterment of society and the preferred
professional development source for our members. PES members are involved in
the planning, research, development, construction, installation, and
operation of equipment and systems for the safe, reliable, and economic
generation, transmission, distribution, measurement, and control of electric
energy.
Taken from Pes website.