IEEE Chattanooga Section

The IEEE Chattanooga Section and PES Chapter invite you to join us on March 19, 11 AM EDT, for a virtual Lunch-and-Learn to hear Rich Hunt from Quanta Technology provide an introduction to IEC 61850. Introduction to IEC 61850 This session will discuss the fundamentals of IEC 61850, including the data model, communications methods, services, and configuration. Topics: - Why do we care about IEC 61850? - What does IEC 61850 do? - How does IEC 61850 work? At the end of this session, you should have a general understanding of IEC 61850. This session can be the starting point for further investigation into system and network architectures, testing, and implementing specific system functionality. Rich Hunt, PE, Executive Advisor – Quanta Technology Mr. Hunt has over 30 years of experience in the electric power industry, specializing in protective relaying. Over the last 15 years, he has focused on specifying and designing digital substations, including IEC 61850, process bus, non-conventional instrument transformers, networking, and time synchronization. Rich earned his BSEE and MSEE from Virginia Tech. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of the Main Committee of the IEEE Power System Relaying & Control Committee, and a registered Professional Engineer. 1 PDH Available Please Note that the meeting invite is part of this email, click on the Microsoft Teams meeting invite provided in the location section of the e-notice email Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/472407

The IEEE Chattanooga Section invites you to join us for a virtual Lunch and Learn to hear from Dr. Yilu Liu regarding her nationally recognized work on Grid Visibility. Dr. Yilu Liu, UT Knoxville CURENT Deputy Director and UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Professor Dr. Liu is the Deputy Director of CURENT, a graduated National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center that was jointly supported by NSF and the Department of Energy (DoE) for a period of 10 years before becoming self-sustaining. She is also the Governor’s Chair Professor of ORNL/UTK, a Fellow of IEEE and a member of the Academy of Engineering. She joined the University of Tennessee in August 2009 from Virginia Tech. She also has a joint appointment with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Liu received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Xian Jiaotong University in 1982, and then received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University in 1986 and 1989, respectively. Her areas of interest include power systems and smart grids. We will hear about Dr. Liu’s efforts on expanding grid visibility, detecting frequency events, and gaining new insights needed to accommodate more inverter based resources on the grid. **1 PDH Available** Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/468092

The IEEE Chattanooga Section invites you to join us for a Lunch and Learn to hear from Dr. Donald Reising as he speaks about Critical Infrastructure Protection. Read more below about the speaker and presentation topic. Abstract: Critical Infrastructure (CI) includes the network of highways, bridges, tunnels, railways, utilities, and buildings that are essential to maintaining normality in day-to-day life. The criticality of our national infrastructure has become paramount with concerns related to the advancement of microelectronics technology, development, and maintenance of a secure and trustworthy supply chain, a continuous integration of intelligent, interconnected devices (i.e., the Internet of Things or IoT), the COVID-19 pandemic, and its age. This talk will highlight Dr. Reising’s ongoing CI protection research at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Bio: DONALD R. REISING received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH in 2006, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, Dayton, OH in 2009 and 2012, respectively. From 2008 to 2014, he was an electronics engineer with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH. He is currently a University of Chattanooga (UC) Foundation Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He leads the SimCenter thrust area of critical infrastructure protection (CIP). His primary research interest is communication systems, specifically in the application of pattern recognition techniques to the identification of wireless communication devices using distinct and native attributes that are unintentionally imparted to the transmitted waveform. Since joining UTC’s faculty, Dr. Reising has built a CIP-centric research program that spans microelectronics, communications, networks, and their applications. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi. Webex meeting invite will be sent once registration closes. All proceeds go towards IEEE scholarships for local unviersity students. **1 PDH Available** Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/362861