This book includes a collection of standards-specific case studies. The case studies offer an opportunity to combine the teaching preferences of educators with the goals of the SEC (Standards Education Committee); providing students with real-world insight into the technical, political, and economic arenas of engineering.
- Encourages students to think critically about standards development and technology solutions
- Reinforces the usage of standards as an impetus for innovation
- Will help understand the dynamics and impacts of standards
A curriculum guide is available to instructors who have adopted the book for a course.? To obtain the guide, please send a request to: ieeeproposals@wiley.com.
Introduction 1
About This Book, 2
The Push for Open Standards, 3
Enter Openstand, 4
The Internet and Its Impact on Standards, 5
Where Does All This Leave SDOs?, 7
Rolling Out IPv6, 7
Standards and Trade, 8
ConsortiaChaos and Compromise, 10
Case Study Topics in This Book, 11
1. Smart Grid Takes on Critical Standards Challenges 14
A System-of-Systems, 16
Jump Starting the Smart Grid, 17
The Standards Priority, 19
Strictly Business, 22
United States Has a Running Start, 23
Smart Meter Concerns, 24
IEEE and the Smart Grid, 26
Catalog of Standards, 28
Timing is Everything, 29
Europes Interconnected Grid, 30
China Goes Smart, 31
The Smart Grid in Citl3$
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