Public Image of Engineering Has to Change, Report Says
Encouraging young people to make a difference in the world through an engineering career is more likely to attract them than emphasizing the challenge of math and science skills...
A Work in Progress
Derrick Cherry does not believe in taking shortcuts especially when it comes to his education and career. Instead, the 31-year-old electrical engineer devotes...
Todd Irby
Born in Gastonia, North Carolina. Married for nine years to his wife, Crystal, who he met in college. They have a son, Cole, and a daughter, Keegan. Enjoys...
Vocation Graduation
Mike Wiggins and His Coworkers at Southwire a leading cable and wire manufacturer based in Carrollton, Georgia, U.S realize education is a gift that can...
A True Go-Getter
As Thomas Alva Edison Once Said, Opportunity is Missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Jesse Dunsmoor, a 21-year-old business...
Dennis Liebelt
Born in Phillips, Wisconsin. He has one sister and two brothers. Happily married to his high school sweetheart, Nancy, for the past 31 years. They have...
Joe Campbell
Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, and raised in Bellaire, Ohio, with his three sisters. Married for six years to his wife, Jaime, and has three children:...
Power Player
Allen Morinec Admits He has A Passion for Power. Not the kind of power that gives people influence and notoriety, but the sort that is piped over power...
Globetrotter
Cheryl Warren Works Hard. Vice president of asset strategy and investment planning for National Grid, Albany, New York, U.S., Warren also serves as secretary...
David Sparks
Born in Gainesville, Florida. Married for 24 years to his wife, Shian, who also works for Gainesville Regional Utilities. Working on his 80-acre farm...
New Kid on the Block
Meet Bruno Kimura, a Tenacious and Ambitious New Member of the Next Generation of Electrical Engineers. Kimura, who recently joined Festimport, NOJA Power's...
Bob Stewart
Born in Billings, Montana. Married for 50 years to Ginger, and they have six children, 20 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. His dad was a lineman,...
Reaching a New Generation
My Bonnie Put It This Way: Dad, Don't Bother Trying to Reach Kids in Middle School. They aren't listening to people your age. They only care what their...
Letters to the Editor
I just read your editorial [A Helluva Engineer, February 2008] on Doug and it made me teary-eyed. I had exchanged e-mails with Doug in the last month...
IEEE Names Distribution Automation Award for Doug Staszesky
The IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) announces the Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award. The award is being sponsored by S&C Electric...
Nick Miller: Industrious Instructor
Nick Miller has been involved in everything from researching the prevention of voltage collapse in Tokyo to his current favored topic, wind power....
GE Power Systems Engineering Course Enters Fourth Quarter
GE Energy’s Learning Center has entered its fourth quarter of power systems engineering courses (PSEC). ...
The Next Generation Asks
Recently, I had to Address the Next Generation of Engineering Students who attended the North American Power Symposium (NAPS) hosted by New Mexico State...
IEEE PES Launches Career Website to Address Critical Worker Shortage
The IEEE Power Engineering Society has created a career website (www.PES-Careers.org) that allows engineering students in the United States and Canada...
Man of Steel
If One Person's Trash is Another Person's Treasure, Then Joe Clifton is a Prosperous Man. Monday through Friday, Clifton realizes the rewards of a successful...
James Robison
Born in 1965 in Laconia, New Hampshire. Married to high school sweetheart, Sheila, for 21 years and has three children Nicholas, Zachary and Abby. Worked...
PA Governor Expresses Disappointment Over Corridor Designation
Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell called the U.S. Department of Energy's decision to designate 52 of the commonwealth's 67 counties as part of the Mid-Atlantic Transmission Corridor an infringement on the state's rights. ...
Robert Blessin
Born in 1961 and raised on a farm in Holstein, Nebraska. Married to wife, Lisa, for 25 years and has two sons, Justin and Zachary. Recently completed...
Insulator Man
Some People Just Won't Take No for an Answer. Fortunately, Chris Hedges, owner of Christopher C. Hedges Co., an electrical contracting firm in Kansas...
Critics, Gripers and Slackers
Low Achievers Tend to Hide Their Lack of Drive by Criticizing Others, whether muttering under their breath against those above them or belittling out...
