Join us on Tuesday, June 28, 6 PM for a buffet dinner courtesy of 3M and Mario Hernandez' presentation Medium Voltage Theory and Products, in joint effort with Bill Taylor, Product Development Manager . . . the man with the plan and knowledge of all things Electrical.The presentation will provide a general overview of medium voltage theory and product solutions from 3M Electrical Markets Division followed by open discussion on splicing and terminating of medium voltage shielded cable. The presentation will be followed by a tour of the 3M Laboratories. Mario and Bill are engineers at the 3M Innovation Center in Austin. For more information, please see the announcement.

The meeting will be held in the 3M Innovation Center west Austin, TX from 6:00 to 8:30 PM. Because of security requirements, reservations are required by Noon, Sunday, June 26, so that security badges may be prepared. Please provide your full name, company, job title, and phone number to Stacy Smith at stacy.smith@austin.utexas.edu (512) 232-6103. You may also contact Stacy for more information.

Certificates. Please pick up your CE certificates for IEEE meetings at the next meeting.

If you have questions about your certification for certification for the NEC seminar, please email Beckey Stallcup at grayboy02@aol.com

On Tuesday, May 24, M. N. (Mike) Filley of Square-D Company presented Critical Power Distribution Systems. Mike's presentation discussed some of the latest distribution systems, their pros and cons, and the difficulties in achieving the "perfect" system--reliable, selective, safe and cost-effective.

We appreciate Mike taking the time to help us understand the principles of critical power systems that he obviously knows so well and for sending us the presentation slides for those that did not attend as well as those who would like to further study Mike's presentation. Thank you Mike.

On Tuesday, April 26, Mark Hunter presented a summary of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, distributed control systems (DCS), and programmable logic controllers (PLC). His talk included technologies, advantages, and disadvantages. Mark showed how hybrid control system architecture fills the gap between DCS and PLC systems. He concluded his presentation with an overview of system security issues, including physical security, control system security, network security, and integration legal mandates. He was also kindly provided a copy of his presentation slides. Mark is with Invensys Process Systems

We really appreciate Mark traveling from Chicago to for this presentation. Thank you.

2005 National Electric Code ® Changes--Thank you

A big thank you to James Stallcup, Sr., President of the Electrical Section of NFPA, Chairman of Code Making Panel 14, and principal member of several technical committees, for conducting the February seminar on the 2005 changes to the National Electric Code®. Here are a couple photos of the event.

Also a round of thank you applause to our sponsors, without whom this seminar would not have taken place.

• Siemans Energy & Automaton, Inc.
• Square D--A brand of Schneider Electric
• 3 M Electrical Products
• Toshiba
• APC

Finally thank you to the over 100 participants who helped make this seminar a big success.