The 2016 Sparks Museum tour went really well. The event was attended by about 30 members, friends and family. We raffled off 4 tickets to the “Cage of Doom” and museum book on the “History of Radio and Electricity”.
The Seattle Section IEEE PES wishes to thank Kaylan Sen for a great talk on the pros and cons of traditional, power electronic and new methods for controlling real and reactive power flow in a transmission system. The lecture was attended by approximately 30 members from the area. The meeting space and refreshments was provided by Stella and Robin Podmore from Incremental Systems Inc., in Bellevue In addition to the technical talk, Robin and Kaylan discussed IEEE humanitarian initiative they are involved in.
We had another great Young Professionals event this month! Although the weather got a bit chilly on Saturday, 14 YPs from all over Seattle attended. Hardev Juj also joined us. He was the section chair 1992-1993 and is retired from BPA as VP of Transmission Planning.
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We had 11 attendees from various work places including Microsoft, Amazon, AT&T, Power Studies, and Puget Sound Energy. We also had two students: one from UW Bothell and one from a university in South Dakota. Bowling was fun! There were some great moments of technical conversation during game play.
