ZE Contributes to the U of H ETRM Program
ZE PowerGroup Inc. (ZE) announced a significant contribution to the University of Houston’s ETRM program, run out of the college’s Bauer School of Business. The company is providing the ZEMA Analyzer product for the course, giving students an introduction to one of the fast growing application areas in ETRM, data management and analytics, via what has quickly become one of, if not the leading, products in that space. Dr. Zak El-Ramly, ZE’s President and CEO, has also committed his time to the effort, serving a guest lecturer at the school last weekend.
As you’ll recall, the program is designed to acquaint students with the technologies and systems utilized in energy trading and risk management, and ZE’s donation and participation, in addition to Data Management Systems donation of the GasPro system, has provided the school with a solid base of real world ETRM technologies.
I was honored to be a guest lecturer at the school a couple of weeks ago and I was thoroughly impressed with not only the progress that the school has made in putting the program together, but was even more impressed with the quality of the students. They were all actively engaged in the discussion and based upon the questions they asked, were not only well versed with many of the technologies of ETRM, but also had a solid understanding of the many of the business issues inherent in energy trading.
In speaking with Ed Bell, who not only spearheaded the development of the program, but is also the lead lecturer for the course, he indicated that this first iteration of the course has been a great success. In fact, when the class kicked-off in January, all the seats were taken and there was a waiting list of students hoping to get in. Mr. Bell told me that they will be adding additional sessions in the coming semester to ensure they have adequate space for all students wanting to get involved.
CommodityPoint is proud to be a supporter of this program and we congratulate Ed and the University of Houston on their success in putting it together. The school and all those involved have developed a world class educational program which is preparing students to enter into a highly technical field and turn, providing a valuable pool of resources for this industry.