Joint Technical Seminar of Tallahassee IEEE PES Chapter
and The Center for Advanced Power Systems
Time: 3:30 PM on Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Venue: Center for Advanced Power Systems, Room 120, 2000 Levy Avenue, Tallahassee, FL 32310
Title: Electric Utility Industry – Perspectives and Challenges
Refreshments will be served
Presenter: Syed Ahmed, Ph.D.
Dr. Syed Ahmed’s interests include power systems engineering and research, operations research, and control systems engineering. He traveled to 44 countries for work and consulting related to power engineering. He is presently working as a Consulting Engineer in the Engineering Advancement Group doing T&D research and representing Southern California Edison (SCE)’s interests at CEC and U.S.DOE in their T&D research forums.
Syed has 42 years of experience in the various aspects of power systems engineering. He started his career as a substation construction engineer, moving on to be an electrical maintenance engineer, meters & relay engineer, and finally as an Operations Engineer in a 800 MW hydro-electric Power Station in Pakistan. In 1976, he moved to Nigeria as Site Manager – Electrical, and started two project sites, using diesel generating stations on the shores of Lake Chad. These sites are now medium sized cities of New Marte’ and Bagaa, in Borno State of Federal Republic of Nigeria. In 1978, he was promoted to a managers’ position, and suddenly my job became financial rather than engineering. He earned an MBA (Finance) from U.C. Riverside. As a student at UCR, he developed a 20-year load forecasting model for City of Riverside. From 1982-90, he worked for Airco and Allied –Signal, designing co-generating stations while pursuing my graduate studies at University of California, Irvine. He joined SCE in 1991 in Engineering & Construction and worked on several revamping projects at Ormond Beach, Huntington Beach, and Redondo Beach Generating Stations. In 1994, he moved to his present position at SCE’s R&D department and worked on various challenging projects. Syed taught Power Systems Analysis & Design, Energy Conversion, and other courses at UCI School of Engineering and at Viterbi School of Engineering at University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Syed Ahmed, Ph.D.