Section Bulletin July 2015 Volume 64, No. 7

Included in this issue:  Beck’s Bytes ...... 2  Engineering Tour of the WQED Television and Radio Station ...... 3  The Buckeye Bullet, “The World land-speed-record electric car project” ...... 4  In Memory of James Justice ...... 6  Plain Talk About the Electric Power Industry ...... 7

Editor: Philip Cox, [email protected]; Contributors: Jim Beck, Jim Lagree, Kal Sen, and Dave Vaglia

All announcements for publication in a particular month’s bulletin are due to the Editor by the 20th of the previous month. The accuracy of the published material is not guaranteed. If there is any error, please bring it to the Editor’s attention. The Section’s web site, https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_home/index/r20037, has recent issues of the bulletin and lots of other useful information

IEEE Pittsburgh Section Bulletin July 2015 Volume 64 No. 7 Page 1 of 8 Section  Beck’s Bytes Chair - Dr. Jim Beck, [email protected]

Greetings! I hope you're all having a fantastic summer. Vice Chair -- Jim Lagree, [email protected]

Even though activity drops off since our local Treasurer – Dr. Drew Lowery, [email protected] Asst. Treasurer - Navid Binesh, [email protected] universities are on break and many folks are way on Secretary - Dan Wilson, [email protected] vacations, there's at least one technical seminar Immediate Past Chair – Dr. Louis Hart, [email protected] scheduled this month. Please check out the details in Awards Chair – Dr. Ralph Sprang, [email protected] the bulletin below and attend if you can. Webmaster – Gerry Kumnik, [email protected]

This year we're going to host our annual picnic again, UpperMon Subsection but to switch things up a bit it's being organized and Chair: Dr. Gianfranco Doretto, [email protected] sponsored by our Young Professionals (YP) affinity group. As usual, all section members and families are Chapters welcome. We'll have all the details for you in next Communications Society – Chair: Dr. Balaji Palanisamy, [email protected]; Sec: Phil Cox, [email protected]

month's bulletin. Computer Society – Chair: Dr. Ralph Sprang, [email protected]

The Women in Engineering (WIE) affinity group chair Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology/Electron Devices Societies – Russell Dudek, is vacant, so please contact me if you or someone you [email protected]; Treas.: Dr. Louis Hart

know is interested. Engineering In Medicine & Biology Society Chair: Dr. Wei Wang, [email protected]

Electromagnetic Compatibility Society Thanks, and have a great month! Chair: Michael J. Oliver [email protected] (814) 763-3211 Jim Beck, Power Electronics Society – Chair: Dr. Kal Sen, [email protected] IEEE Pittsburgh Section Chair, 2015 Power & Energy & Industry Applications Societies Chair: Dave Vaglia, [email protected]; Past: Mey Sen, [email protected] 412-373-0117

Magnetics Society – Chair: Dr. Matt Moneck, [email protected]

Nanotechnology Society - Chair: Dr. MinheeYun [email protected]

Robotics Society – Chair: Gene Kern, [email protected]

Signal Processing Society – Chair: Dr. Deniz Gencaga [email protected]

Society on Social Implications of Technology Chair: Joe Kalasky, P.E., [email protected] 724-244-1609

Affinity Groups

Young Professionals (formerly GOLD) – Chair: Matthew Rehder [email protected]

Women In Engineering – Chair: Open

Committees

Professional/Career Activities (PACE) Chair: Joe Cioletti, P.E. [email protected]

Student Activities – Dr. Irvin Jones, [email protected]

Membership Development – Steve Mozelewski, [email protected]

Publicity – Chair: Thomas Dionise, P.E. [email protected] (724) 779-5864

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 Engineering Tour of the WQED Television and Radio Station

Speaker: Paul Byers, Director of Engineering for WQED Location: WQED Multimedia 4802 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15213 (412-622-1370) Date: 09-JULY-2015 (Thursday) Time: 5:00PM – Parking at WQED - Left Side of WQED Building 5:30-6:15 PM – Dinner at Lulu’s Noodles - 400 S. Craig Street 6:30-8:45 PM – Presentation at WQED, Q & A

Abstract: The first part of the presentation will be focused on the WQED TV and Radio Studios including the television cameras, the control rooms, and the electrical power facilities. The second part of the presentation will take place at the gigantic transmission tower atop - which delivers the TV and Radio signals directly to your television and radio.

Background: WQED was the nation’s first community-supported television station and went on the air on April 1, 1954. In 1973, Classical WQED-FM 89.3 was founded as the region’s only 24-hour classical radio station.

Today, WQED is educational public media with four television programming streams: WQED-TV; WQED: The Neighborhood Channel; WQED: The Create Channel; and WQED Showcase; three radio streams: WQED-FM 89.3; WQEJ-FM 89.7/Johnstown; The Pittsburgh Concert Channel at WQED-FM HD-2 and www.wqed.org/fm online provide WQED content for free to all residents in the viewing and listening area, and online around the world; local and national television and radio productions; WQED Interactive, and iQ: smartmedia, WQED’s Educational initiative.

For additional information on WQED TV and Radio, please follow the link below… http://www.wqed.org/about

IEEE Pittsburgh Section Bulletin July 2015 Volume 64 No. 7 Page 3 of 8 RSVP: Required at: Detailed information and signup will be on the IEEE Pittsburgh Joint PES/IAS Chapter page “Calendar” tab: https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_home/index/CH02085 Signup by July 8th, 2015. If you would like to receive PDHs, please bring a copy of this announcement for verification of your attendance. A non-Member who would like to receive PDHs is required to pay $10 to IEEE Pittsburgh Section. A Member who would like to receive PDH is required to show membership ID. Contact Dave Vaglia ([email protected]) for additional details.

Direction given at the signup link on the IEEE Pittsburgh Joint PES/IAS Calendar Signup Webpage.

 The Buckeye Bullet, an 85-second Thrill Ride to 300+ mph! “The World land-speed-record electric car project”

Speaker: Nigel P. McQuin Title: President, McQuin Electrical Power Consulting, Inc. Date: July 14, 2015 Time: Refreshments - 6:30 PM; Presentation - 7:00 PM Place: Westinghouse Energy Center, 4350 Northern Pike, Monroeville, PA 15146

RSVP: Required at https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/35053 by July 10, 2015. If you are an IEEE member, you must enter your membership number. If you would like to receive PDH, please bring a copy of this announcement for verification of your attendance and your membership identification card. A non-Member who would like to receive PDH is required to pay $10 to “IEEE Pittsburgh Section.”

Organizer: Power Electronics Society (PELS)

Abstract: In May 2000, a group of college students had a dream of building an electric car, with the intention of breaking the existing land speed record. In October 2004 at the Bonneville Speedway on the salt-flats of Utah, they achieved this goal establishing three new land speed records. The most

IEEE Pittsburgh Section Bulletin July 2015 Volume 64 No. 7 Page 4 of 8 outstanding achievement was setting the world record of 321.83 mph for the fastest electrically powered wheeled vehicle, which exceeded that established by the European TGV high-speed train. In subsequent years till Oct. 2010, the team ran further hydrogen fuel-cell and Li-Ion battery powered racing vehicles, all of which exceeded 300 mph in timed speed trials.

The speaker’s experience in pulsed power-supply designs, and a wide variety of induction machinery designs and applications have played an important role in the development of electrical machinery for electric and hybrid-electric vehicles, for both civilian and military applications. This has led to the design of specialized traction drive motor for electric lap-racing cars, as well as support of university projects for Electric-Class III land-speed-record cars. All of these land-speed-record electric vehicles were powered by the same high-speed electric drive motor, which is now retired from racing service, and will be on display for this presentation. This presentation will cover the history of the electric racing car project, from its roots in 1998, through to the conclusion of the single-motor powered achievements in 2010.

Speaker: Mr. Nigel McQuin received a first class honors degree in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, London, England in 1977, specializing in electrical power systems and rotating/linear machinery. He joined GEC Large Machines Co. (later Alstom, now Converteam Inc.) as a development Engineer, where he worked on the design and analysis of a wide variety of electrical machine problems. He later joined Brush Electrical Machines Co. as development manager.

In 1990, Mr. McQuin moved to the USA, where he became Vice President and Test Laboratory Manager at PSM High Power Test Laboratory in East Pittsburgh. In this capacity he was responsible for the daily testing of a wide variety of power utility equipment, including switchgear, transformers, lightning arresters and motor control centers. Since 1996 he has been self-employed as an independent Electrical Power Consultant, and more recently, Technical/Standards Director of the Pittsburgh International Institute for Cargo & Homeland Security.

Mr. McQuin has been chairman of STLNA (Short-Circuit Testing Liaison - North America), a coordinating body for the high power electrical test laboratories within NAFTA. He is also on the IEEE main standards committees for Switchgear (C37), Transformers (C57), Surge Protection Devices (C62), Electrical Machinery (C50) and High Voltage Testing Techniques (PSIM). He has been a technical liaison contributor to the US National Committee for IEC TC17A/C (Switchgear) and TC14 (Transformers), TC42 (HV testing techniques) and TC37 (Surge Protection Devices). He is an Individual Member of CIGRE (Paris), and is also a Member of the IET (London). Locally he contributes to the IEEE Pittsburgh Section by providing technical presentations; in 2006 he was awarded the IEEE PES Outstanding Engineer Award for his activities in 2004-5: “Nigel has been an active contributor to the newly formed Consultants Network, and has continued to contribute to the IEEE Pittsburgh Section program for the PES/IAS with presentations on various topics; including “K-factor rated distribution transformers” and “Preparing for your major career changes, voluntary and forced occurrences” in 2004, and “Electric vehicles and the land-speed-record” in 2005. Between August - October 2004, at the Bonneville Speedway on the salt-flats of Utah, NV, an all-electric racing car, powered by a high-speed induction motor of Nigel’s design, established three new land speed records. The most outstanding achievement was the claiming of the world record of 321.83 mph for the fastest electrically powered wheeled vehicle.”

IEEE Pittsburgh Section Bulletin July 2015 Volume 64 No. 7 Page 5 of 8 DIRECTIONS TO WESTINGHOUSE ENERGY CENTER (MONROEVILLE)

From Pittsburgh take Interstate 376 East (Parkway East). Take Exit 84A to Monroeville. Cross Business Rt 22 at the traffic light and proceed on Rt 48 South (Moss Side Blvd) approx ½ mile (two traffic lights). The 2nd traffic light is at a 4-way intersection with a Marathon station on the right and a Sunoco station on the left. Turn left onto Northern Pike. Proceed approx 0.2 miles and turn right at the 1st traffic light onto Westinghouse Dr. Travel 0.7 miles (past the guard stand) to the 3 flags where the building’s main entrance is located. Parking in the evening will be plentiful. Use the main entrance and check with the security guards inside. You will be directed to the proper room for your meeting.

From the PA Turnpike, take Exit 57 (Monroeville). After the toll plaza, get in the left lane to get on Business Rt 22 West. At the first light, turn left onto Rt 48 South (Moss Side Blvd) and follow the above directions.

 In Memory of James Justice

By Jim Lagree

When I first started working at the Westinghouse Research and Development Center in Churchill I heard all the stories about the first color camera that was developed there that went to the moon. The technicians would talk about it because they were proud of the development of what they accomplished and proud for the US and proud for Westinghouse. They all referred to James (Jimmy they would call him) Justice as the lead engineer. James Justice passed away on May 13. He was a life member of IEEE. Although I did not know him well and only met him a couple times, I did compete against him in the development of the screw in fluorescent light. The Westinghouse lighting division had developed a small bent over fluorescent tube (the project was called the double folded lamp) that would fit into an Edison base and replace an incandescent light bulb. Jimmy was developing an electronic ballast that would run the lamp. My boss’s, boss Len Vercellotti thought that an electronic ballast was too expensive and would never last so he gave me the project to develop an inductive ballast that would fit it into the base of the bulb. I finished the design but the ballast was so heavy that any lamp fixture would fall over from the weight. Jimmy’s design eventually was patented by Phillips who bought the Westinghouse lighting division. I still look at the corkscrew fluorescent designs today and think that they owe their roots to James Justice’s development and design in the early 1980’s. At the Westinghouse R&D Center the final output of many projects was a report. I would always read Justice’s because he also worked on the cable TV converter boxes for the Westinghouse cable divisions. The design behind the scrambling techniques was always very interesting reading. There were many Europeans that came to Pittsburgh and worked at the Westinghouse R&D Center. James was from England and part of what they called the “Brain Drain” that Westinghouse did in the years following WWII. James was just one IEEE engineer who made Pittsburgh a great engineering city and some of the great accomplishments that were done here.

For a complete obituary written by Eleanor Chute and published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette see the link below. http://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2015/05/17/Obituary-James-W-H-Justice-Westinghouse- engineer-whose-designs-included-first-color-camera-on-the-moon/stories/201505170154

IEEE Pittsburgh Section Bulletin July 2015 Volume 64 No. 7 Page 6 of 8  Plain Talk About the Electric Power Industry

IEEE Pittsburgh Section Bulletin July 2015 Volume 64 No. 7 Page 7 of 8 2015 Calendar – Meetings of IEEE Pittsburgh Section Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July August Sept Oct Nov Dec Executive 15 19 19 16 21 18 16 20 17 15 19 17 Committee TBD Panera Panera Bread Nemacolin Panera- Blvd Panera The Panera Bread Panera WVU -- Panera Bread Holiday Forbes Ave, Wilkins of the Allies, Bread Spaghetti Wexford Blvd of the TBD Wilkins Dinner -- Oakland Oakland Wilkins Warehouse Allies TBD Section 21 27 10-15 Intel Engineer’s Science Fair Science Fair Week 15 – Annual Dinner Communic 1 ations Gigabit Apps Computer 12 IoT EMBS EMCS 8 Testing EMC Power 21 24 26 23 28 15 14 Electronics DC Energy Lab. Power EMC Magnetics on Trail Electric Car Microgrid Converter PCBs Project PES/IAS 7 18 8 9 9 6-8 Memorial Power Sys. Testing EMC Convention WQED Plain Talk 16 Center Tour Nemacolin Magnetics Robotics 9 Convention Center Sig. Processing CPMT/ED Social Impl 16 Technology Nemacolin Upper Mon Women in Eng’ing Life Mem. Young Pros PACE 24 4 Akustica Russ Harrison Student Act 24 Akustica

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