Joint IEEE Section and
Power Society Meeting

Essential Technologies for
Energy Efficiency and Management

Speaker: Andy Marshall A National Instruments Field Engineer, Mr. Marshall consults organizations in the design, prototype, and deployment of their test, measurement, control, and monitoring applications. Prior to joining National Instruments, he worked for RockwellCollins for 13 years and has over 20 years of Test and Automation experience. Also, Mr. Marshall is the Vice President of Iowa Renewable Energy Association, a non-profit organization promoting and facilitating the use of renewable energy.

Event Date: Wednesday, June 16th, 2009

Meeting Location: Dave & Buster's, 2502 South 133 Plaza, Omaha

Sign in & Happy Hour: 5:00 P.M.

Dinner Served: 5:30 P.M.

Presentation & Questions: 6:10 P.M.

Meal Price and Selections:

• $20 - Beef Dinner
• $20 - Chicken Dinner
• $20 - Other Dinner
• $10 - Student Beef Dinner
• $10 - Student Chicken Dinner
• $10 - Student Other Dinner

All meals include a beverage.

IEEE Student meals are half-price ($10).

This presentation is worth One (1.0) Professional Development Hour. Indicate your need for a PDH certificate during sign in at the meeting or on the sign up form below.

Sponsor: Open

Topic Overview: In 2003, a widespread blackout affected 50 million people in eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. The following year, the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electric Transmission and Distribution, formed a group of stakeholders in the electric industry to design "GRID 2030." The aim of this workshop was to develop a road map that represented the critical GRID architecture, accelerate technology acceptance, strengthen the electric market, and develop private/public partnerships. With an infrastructure that has been in use for 25 years, engineers, operators, researchers, and plant managers are challenged to forecast loads and monitor power quality with existing systems and tools.
National Instruments is helping national laboratories and utility organizations add a layer of intelligence to their grids with diagnostic tools for real-time monitoring and control, distributed energy, power electronics, and storage solutions.
Attend this chapter meeting to learn how National Instruments is evolving the smart grid and collaborating with private and public organizations, including those integrating renewable energies, with commercial-off-the-shelf technologies. We will also highlight use cases for renewable energy that includes: Monitoring Environmental Data, Designing and Testing of Wind Power Technologies, Automated Control of Solar Cell Fabrication, and Machine and Process Optimization.