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Pittsburgh Section Bulletin July 2015 Volume 64, No Pittsburgh 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 IEEE Pittsburgh Section Bulletin July 2015 Volume 64 No. 7 Page 2 of 8 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 Oakland - 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
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