About the KIVI Department of Electrical Engineering
KIVI is a professional association that stands for supporting engineers in their professional practice, propagating the importance of engineers and technology to society and promoting interaction between engineers and civil society.
In doing so, KIVI's Electrical Engineering Division constitutes a platform for all engineers (ir's and ing's) with an electrical engineering degree or other education who have a connection to the field of electrical engineering through their work or interests at a higher educated level. The platform ranges from power generation to microelectronics, from undergraduates to retirees, and from budding electrical engineers to engineers in the highest positions in industry and government.
Core tasks department
The section focuses on defending members' interests, creating the conditions under which members can best develop in their professional practice and on open and constructive communication between all members. It does this through numerous activities and makes its voice heard in all places where it is of interest to electrical engineers.
The board has set itself the task of ensuring timely strengthening and improvement of the Electrical Engineering Division.
Of great importance is to update the policy pursued, to be ready for the coming years in which technological developments are moving at breakneck speed with necessary social changes.
Policy development KIVI Department of Electrical Engineering 2020 (BO2020)
The board therefore went through a process from 2015 called "Electrical Engineering Department Policy Development 2020" (BO2020).
With the aim of:
- How do we make the KIVI-E Department even more attractive to its members?
- How do we align with KIVI's new direction?
- How do we align with new trends and a modern society?
- What is important and what is not?
- What choices do we make?
- With whom do we cooperate (both within KIVI and outside)?
- How will we implement it?
The results of this survey were presented at the 2016 AGM:
A. Focus on the field
Electrical power engineering with a focus on sustainable energy, Smart grids and Smart buildings/homes.
Embedded systems and Telecom as far as applied in electrical power engineering, Smart grids and Smart buildings/homes.
B. Focus on age groups
Students (through study associations).
Young professionals (up to 35).
Professionals.
C. Focus on roles
Provide a network for knowledge exchange.
Organise meetings with information and discussion on:
Modern society playing technological developments.
Their social consequences.
D. Focus on opportunities
Opt for more socially relevant topics.
Strongly improve and modernise communication.
Seek cooperation in the broadest sense.
Thorough programmes for young people in cooperation with Young KIVI.
Improve image and visibility through good communication
Programmes. Make better and more use of the press.
Involve members more in the implementation of programmes also set them up with them.
E. Advice to politics
KIVI aims to give more input to politicians, answering questions (second chamber) and/or giving advice. viz:
Lower House members need reliable, independent and objective information on the issues they have to decide on. Most of the information they receive is coloured by an organisation's interests. There is often a considerable lack of factual knowledge.
Therefore, when a KIVI department is able to provide meaningful advice, it garners a lot of appreciation. Ministries and the media also have an interest in effective decision-making in Parliament and follow good KIVI advice.
The main board asks departments to advise the House of Representatives directly on government policy plans in their fields of expertise.
F. Board
Given the composition of the current board and the statutory retiring members in the near future, the Electrical Engineering Section is looking for new members for the board. Something for you? Read more here.
Members for members!
At the AGM on 26 April 2016, this Electrical Engineering 2020 policy development was adopted.
These Symposia / Webinars are partly a result of the policy initiated in 2016
- E Lunch Webinars Energy transition 2022 - 2024
- Energy Plan NL 2050 Webinars 2020 - 2021
- EnergyNL2050 Symposia 2016 - 2017
- Homelab 2050 Symposia 2014 - 2015
- EU Powerlabs 2050 Symposia 2013 - 2014
- Reports of activities of the Department of Electrical Engineering
- Activities (planned) of the Electrical Engineering Department
EnergyNL2050
History of electrical engineering
The history and development in the field of electrical engineering has been portrayed by the Foundation for the History of Technology with the booklets below, as well as the editions of the NERG Reference and History in the archive of the KIVI Telecommunications Department: