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April
Section Meeting
Speaker Bio |
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Bob
Krause is a registered Professional Engineer with a BSEE and an
MBA, and has more than 20 years’ experience in analysis of
accounting, economic, rate making, regulatory, and contractual
matters. He has
testified as an expert witness before state and federal agencies
and has served on multiple collaborative task forces seeking
solutions to industry problems.
He has consulted internationally, performing privatization
of power studies for the government of Pakistan and financial
analysis for the government of Egypt through the United States
Agency For International Development (USAID) and the World Bank.
He is skilled in deregulation, analysis, management,
planning, contracts, seminars and training, and problem solving.
Krause’s
professional activity includes membership in the IEEE, The Gulf
Coast Power Association, and the Texas Renewable Energy Industries
Association. He is
listed in the NARUC Directory of Consultants and in Who’s Who in
the West and Who’s Who in America.
An
IEEE member since he was a senior in college, Krause has served as
Chair of the IEEE-USA Career Maintenance and Development Committee
and Chair of the IEEE-USA Communications Committee.
He founded the first IEEE Consultant’s Network in Texas,
and has served on the executive committee of the Alliance of IEEE
Consultant’s Network.
He
is presently on the Board of Director’s of IEEE-USA.
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April
Section Meeting
Deregulation
in the
Electrical Power Industry
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The
question no longer is, “Should there be deregulation of the
electric power industry?”
The questions now are, “How soon, to what extent, and
how do we get there from here?”
The longer-term benefits promised are lower prices,
customer choices, and innovation.
But what will be the short-term impacts on customers and
the industry? Which
customers will benefit when?
“Will the big dogs eat first”?
The transition will be fraught with challenges concerning
standard investments, maintaining system reliability, safety,
universal service, R&D, environmental and consumer
protections, and resource diversity.
The changes will present pitfalls for some and
opportunity for others. But make no mistake about it.
Where we are going to end up has already been written.
The paths being chosen now will only determine how smooth
the transition will be.
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Planned
meetings of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
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April 14- A
statistical Multiscale Framework for Single Photon Emission
Computed Tomography (Robert Nowak, Rice University)
April 28- Tissue
Motion Estimation via Ultrasound and Related Medical
Applications (Faouzi Kallel, UT Medical School, Houston)
All seminars take place
in room 102D – Engineering Building, University of Houston, at
3:00PM. For further
information, please contact Prof. Periklis Ktonas at
713-743-4429. |
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CONFERENCE
FOR PROTECTIVE RELAY ENGINEERS
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
College Station, Texas
April 11-13, 2000 |
| The
Planning Committee of the 53rd Annual Conference
for Protective Relay Engineers invites you to attend the
conference at Texas A&M University on April 11-13, 2000.
The Protective Relay Conference provides a forum for
engineers to discuss protection technology and related
subjects. Both
tutorial presentations on fundamental concepts and papers on
new technology are included. The program will include the following:
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- New
protection equipment descriptions
- Relay
application ideas an new concepts
- Case
Studies and “Horror Stories"
- (When the relays worked – and when they didn’t!)
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| Registration
Information: |
Pre-Registration: |
$165(begins
January 3, 2000) |
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After March 17: |
$190 |
| Manufacturers |
For
hospitality suites, please contact Stuart M. Arledge at the
College Station Hilton and Conference Center at
(409)694-4907 |
| This
conference offers Continuing Education Credits |
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Web
site: http://engineering.tamu.edu/prorelay/
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| For
information: |
Dr.
b. Don Russell
Associate Vice Chancellor
College of Engineering
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3126
(409) 845-8912 |
For
Registration: |
Ms.
Jacque Hand
Conference Registration
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-1232
(409) 845-7962 |
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