IEEE Mississippi Section

Natural disasters have been causing severe power outages in recent years. For example, in 2012, afterHurricane Sandy struck the East Coast of the U.S., approximately 8.35 million customers were reportedwithout power. Hurricane Harvey recently has caused severe power outages in Houston. It dumped anestimated 27 trillion gallons of rain over Texas and Louisiana during a 6-day period. Nearly 300,000customers were without power after Hurricane Harvey hit the coast near the town of Rockport. ERCOTreported the power loss as due to more than 150 damaged transmission circuits. ERCOT oversees 90percent of the state's electricity grid. This presentation will introduce a two-phase mathematical stochasticframework for enhancing the power grid resiliency in the presence of extreme events using defensiveislanding, mobile truck-mounted substation and emergency response generators scheduling during aHurricane. In the first phase, a damage assessment model is presented for detection of possible damagesand doing preventive maneuver action in the grid to minimize the followed damages by Hurricane. Thefirst stage determines the optimal truck-mounted substation and emergency response generators sizes andnumber anticipating, and initial state of the grid defensive topology for an arrival extreme event, and thesecond stage adjusts the truck numbers and grid reconfiguration, if necessary, when the arrival time of thepredicted extreme event becomes closer with updated information. The truck driving paths to feed thetemporary Point of Interconnection (POI) points of the split power distribution grid is generated in thesecond phase while with considering the operation and travel costs (including time) of the truck. Two setsof scenarios are considered for numerical studies from the west area of the city of Houston which wasaffected by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Location: Entergy THQ Cafetorium 1340 Echelon Parkway Jackson, Mississippi 39213

Electrical Utility Line Inspection using Unmanned Aircraft Ron Ogan IEEE Life Senior Member and Captain Civil Air Patrol, a USAF auxiliary The Federal Aviation Administration recently released 14CFR Part 107 rules for operation ofsmall Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) in the US airspace. These rules apply to bothcommercial and non-commercial operation of sUAS but exclude hobby or recreational operationmatching guidelines set by the Academy of Model Aeronautics (http://www.modelaircraft.org,0.Dennis Lott HINDS Community College Aviation UAS Director has lead the development,training and operation of sUAS for more than 5 years.(http ://news.hindscc.edu/index. php/tag/ dennis-lott/ )Electrical Utility Line Inspection using expensive manned helicopter operations is rapidly, beingreplaced by cost effective, safe sUAS inspections. These SUAS may be flown autonomously orby remote piloting. Accuracy and programming techniques will be discussed as supportsrequirements for inflight inspections and data recording. Miniature autopilots sense data fromcompass and GPS signals to control flights. The expanding list of companies performing theseinspections includes Aibotix, Edison Electric Institute, Hill Country Aerial Vehicles andDominion Energy, and more. Careers in this field offer autonomous programming, sUASmaintenance, aerial photography, navigation, and flight systems Location: Alcorn, Mississippi 39096

Co-sponsored by: Young Professionals The BIG question?? How much time is on my side? Statistically 3-5 folks run out of money.1 out of 2 end up in a nursing home. The average American has less than $1,000 in savings.Is the bank REALLY our friends? Do I really spend more time planning a vacation than I do myretirement? I have insured my cell phone, but not insured myself, my kids? Will Social Security be therewhen I retire? What will taxes be when I retire? How do I make my earnings TAX FREE? Do I rent orbuy? What can I do now to prepare? Student loans? How can I make them go away? Being raised in a timewhere there was no social media, no internet, no cell phone, a LIBRARY CARD only, the technology haschanged is continuing to change. We have every opportunity to re-direct our thinking to make betterchoices. These are just some questions to get the answers to start NOW! Time is something we cannot stopno matter what we do. Location: Bldg: Entergy THQ Cafetorium Jackson, Mississippi

EXCOM meeting Location: Jackson, Mississippi

Co-sponsored by: Dr. Randy Buchanan Speakers: Major General Richard G. Kaiser, US Army Corps of Engineers Location: Vicksburg Convention Center 1600 Mulberry Street Vicksburg, Mississippi