IEEE PES FORT WORTH MONTHLY MEETING – MARCH 16TH, 2021

Fort Worth IEEE PES members, we will have our next IEEE PES virtual meeting on March 16th from 11:30am to 1:00pm. We have Torsten Gruhn from Bender Inc. talking with us about IMI Technology in Electrical Vehicles, so please attend if you can!

·         Date: 16 Mar 2021

·         Time: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM

·         All times are US/Central

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·         Fort Worth , Texas

·         United States

·         Fort Worth (FW) Section Chapter, PE31

·         Starts 02 March 2021 03:50 PM

·         Ends 16 March 2021 11:30 AM

·         All times are US/Central

·         No Admission Charge

SPEAKERS

Torsten Gruhn

Biography:

Torsten Gruhn started out as a certified electrical motor rewinder in Germany. He graduated from trade school and worked on everything electrical that can turn, produce or transform power. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University GH in Paderborn, Germany with the emphasis on power generation, transmission and distribution. Main focus at his current position is new business development, sales and the support of ground fault protection for EVSE and isolation monitoring circuitry in EV. He works with numerous universities to support Formula Hybrid and SAE competitions, worked with the progressive auto X-price and supports the Formula E in electrical safety. Torsten has coauthored a couple white papers on the subject matter of ground faults in general industry, of which two made it into IEEE publications.

i.          T. Gruhn, J. Glenney, M. Savostianik, “Type B Ground-Fault Protection on Adjustable Frequency Drives”, in PPFIC Conference Record, 2017. Pp 102-106. DOI 10.1109/PPIC.2017.8003870

ii.         D.Boyd, J.Irzinger, J.Glenney, T. Gruhn, Insulation Monitoring on Common Grounding Methods In the Pulp and Paper Industry PPFIC-2018

 

We are sorry to announce that the IEEE PES meeting for today will be cancelled due to unforeseen work circumstances. We apologize to everyone that took the time to register and scheduled time out of their day to attend our meeting but we will be back next month as planned! We will also be announcing the winner of the $100 amazon gift card this Friday to those that were the first 100 followers on our IEEE PES LinkedIn page!

 

 

 

The doors are open for all Passionate Volunteers who are interested in setting up an event in April on the topic ‘Clean Energy’!

 

If you are passionate about Clean Energy or know some volunteer who is, we encourage you to be an ambassador.

Below is some detailed information regarding the event.

 

PES DAY 2021 CALL FOR AMBASSADORS

 

About the IEEE PES DAY:

On April 22, 2008, the ‘Power Engineering Society’ changed its name to the ‘Power & Energy Society’ to help the environment and society in terms of the Electric Power Industry. This day has been officially commemorated as “PES Day” since 2018 and a group of Volunteers from the energy industry come together to host various events based on the theme during the month (April). The theme for 2021 PES DAY is “Clean Energy Revolution”.

Call for Volunteers:

We have opened the Call for Ambassadors (flyer attached) across all the regions.

If you know a passionate volunteer, encourage them to be an ambassador.  

 

Sign up to be an ambassador: Click here

Deadline: 20th Feb 2021, 11:59PM/GMT-10

  

Tasks:

✅Organize events based on the theme- Clean Energy Revolution

✅Submit the report for events

 

Benefits:

✅Leadership Opportunities

✅Networking and building global connections

✅Scholarship Opportunities

 

Ambassadors category:

✅ IEEE Section

✅ IEEE Student Branch chapter

✅ IEEE YP Affinity Group

✅ IEEE WIE Affinity Group

✅ PES chapter 

✅ PES Student Branch chapter

 

One Week Impact:

In one week we received +600 responses from 50 countries all across the globe. 

For more info check out the website and follow us on social media (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn) for more announcements.

You can also contact me or our regional lead coordinator Anandhu Kumar at anandhu@ieee.org for any questions.