Speakers:Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer III, Edsel Atienza, Edwardo Palma, and Mike Collum
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., 2350 NE Hopkins Court, Pullman, WA 99163 Location: Seminole Electric , 16313 North Dale Mabry Hwy, Tampa, FL, 33618
Date: Friday, November 6, 2009
Registration:8:30am-9:00am
Presentation:9:00am-3:00pm
Location: Seminole Electric , 16313 North Dale Mabry Hwy, Tampa, FL, 33618
Cost: $100 IEEE Members, $150 Non-Members, $75 Students (lunch included)
Make checks payable to IEEE FWCS and mail a check in advance to IEEE FWC Treasurer: Dr. Paul Schnitzler, 30612 Nickerson Loop, Wesley Chapel, FL 33543 PDH: 4 Professional Development Hours (PDH) will be awarded for Professional Engineers
Space limited to the first 45 registrants!!!
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Questions: Contact Jim Howard at 863.834.6585 or Jim.Howard@Lakelandelectric.com

Since Dr. Edmound O. Schweitzer, III introduced Smart Grid products to the power system in 1984, he and the company he founded, Schweitzer Engineernig Laboratories (SEL), have continued to develope innovative solutions to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. Dr.Schweitzer will talk about recent breakthroughs that will help define todays power grid. Topics include real world applications of synchrophasor measurement and control, high speed Distribution feeder restoration, Substation Automation, advances in Transmission protection. In addtion the associated communications and required security measures to implement Smart Grid solutions will also be addressed

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Dr. Edmound O. Schweitzer III is recognised as a pioneer in digital protection and holds the grade of IEEE Fellow, a title bestowed on less than 1 percent of IEEE members. In 2002 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is the receipient of the Graduate Alumni Achievement Award from Washington State University and the Purdue University Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award. In September 2005, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Universidad Automation de Nuevo Leon in Monterrey, Mexico, for his contribution to the development of electric power systems worldwide. He has written dozens of technical papers on digital relay design and reliability, and holds more than 30 patents pertaining to electrical power system protection, metering, monitoring and control. Dr. Schweitzer received his Bachelors' and Masters' degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and his Doctorate from Washington State University. He served on the Elecrical Enginnering faculties of Ohio University and WSU. In 1982 Dr. Schweitzer founded SEL to develope and manufacture digital protective relays and related products and services. Today SEL is an employee owned company that serves the electric power industry worldwide and is certified to the ISO 9001 international quality standard. SEL equipment is in service at voltages from 5 to 500kV to protect feeders, motors, transformers, capacitor banks, transmission lines and other power apparatus.

Edsel Atienza received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Unversity of Idaho in 2001. He joined SEL in 2002 as an International Field Application Engineer. In 2006, Edsel joined Tampa Electric as a Substation Operations Engineer responsible for relay testing and maintenance. He returned to SEL in 2008, serving the Southeastern United States as a Field Application Engineer.

Eduardo Palma received his Bachelors' degree in Electrical Engineering from the Unversity of South Florida in 2003. An IEEE member, Eduardo is an Integration Application Engineer with experience in application, training, integration and testing of digital protective relays and communications equipment. His experience focuses on system integration and the application and testing of communications protocols. Eduardo joined SEL in 2003 and is serving in Latin America, Caribbean, Spain and Portugal markets. He conducts and provides technical seminars, commissioning, techincal support and trainning classes to introduce SEL solutions and services.

Mike Collum graduated from Mississippi State University with a Bachelors' degree in Electrical Engineering and is a registered Professional Engineer in Mississippi. He started working with SEL in 1997 as a Field Application Engineer. He is a Senior Field Application Engineer for the East Region out of Tupelo Mississippi. For 11 years prior to joining SEL, MIke was Director of Planning and Protection for Southern Mississippi Electric Power Association, where he was involved in Transmission Planning and Systrem Protection Applications.