March 2013

IEEE PES Region 3 Highlights

A new PES Chapter was launched last year in the Mississippi Section based in Jackson. A petition signing meeting was organized by Tom Field at Entergy’s Headquarters in February with their first Chapter meeting in March 2012 with a presentation on “Communications for the Smart Grid”.

Now Hiring Students!

PES Members: You are the engineers who know about the need and opportunities for electrical engineering students in your organization. Do you know how easy it is to get the word out to students who are actually interested in power and energy engineering? All your …

Reminder Links

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See Everything In All Issues of IEEE Power & Energy Magazines
To access the features in PES’s Power & Energy Magazine , you must have an IEEE web account which is available at no charge to all PES members. To …

IEEE PES Region 2 Highlights

One of the Pittsburgh Chapter’s more memorable meetings last year was a tour of the ABB high-voltage circuit breaker facility on October 17, 2012. The world-class ABB high-voltage breaker facility…

Women in Engineering – Mazana Armstrong

My name is Mazana Armstrong and I am an electrical engineer in the area of Electric Power Systems, working for British Columbia’s power utility BC Hydro. I am a team lead…

TC Report-PSOC

IEEE Power Engineering Society, Entity Annual Report. Entity: Power System Operations Committee
Chair: William Cassel, Vice-Chair: Antonio Conejo, Secretary: Hong Chen

Distinguished Individual Service Award

At the 2013 Winter Technical Committee meeting in Memphis, Betty Tobin received the PES Technical Committee Distinguished Individual Service Award for her long-term…

NAE Inductees

Steve Mills, President of the IEEE Standards Association has authored a White Paper on the Future of Global Standards which supports a Modern Paradigm for Standards. The details are available at  http://open-stand.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/International-Standards-in-the-Emerging-Global-Economy-082812.pdf