Employer: Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), in Palo Alto.
Duration: full time, from now through mid/late August
Desired Major: Mechanical, Civil or Electrical Engineering student
Minimum: Rising Junior
Skills:
· Basic proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Adobe, Word
· Work autonomously
· Comfortable conducting loosely structured phone interviews
Job Description: two distinct projects
1) Project One: Indexing contents of 60+ EPRI technical reports relating to impacts of flexible operation on plant assets. Assist EPRI project manager (PM) in devising a search scheme to facilitate retrieval of information from these reports in the context of search criteria defined by EPRI project advisors. Interface with a contractor selected by EPRI PM to implement the EPRI documents and search capability into a single DVD-based knowledge resource.
2) Project Two: Update information on existing Energy Efficiency technology R&D projects, from the Northwest Energy Efficiency Technology Roadmap, 2012. Conduct phone conversations with these R&D project contacts to confirm and update project details, including: scope, objectives, timeline, status of funding, associated R&D strategy, milestones and deliverables.
Contact: Sarah Inwood, sin...@epri.com