As I read the titles of the articles in this month’s <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">IEEE Industry Applications Magazine</i> , I am struck with the realization that the topics cover one of the areas of engineering where I think IEEE excels, and those of us who work in engineering education need to do more. Engineering schools at both the undergraduate and graduate levels are generally set up to teach similar topics. We cover fundamentals, the application of those ideas, analysis of systems under defined operating conditions, and design of new systems. In higher level electrical power engineering programs, we teach principles of protection, and, in some research groups, there is excellent work on fault detection. However, the articles in this issue of the magazine are clearly focused on the applied practice of engineering: best practices learned beyond technical requirements, determining when equipment is aged to the point when replacement is necessary, the causes and effects of undesired parasitic effects, and outage prevention as opposed to remedial action after a fault.