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PES News
Election of Division VII Director-elect
Ballots must be received by the election vendor by 1200 CDT (1700 GMT) on 1 October!
  The voting membership of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) has the opportunity to elect the Division VII Director-elect. Three candidates, nominated by the PES Nominations and Appointments Committee chaired by Past President John D. McDonald and approved by the Governing Board, Mohamed El-Hawary, Saifur Rahman and Enrique Tejera, are contesting this office. Their photos, bios, and candidate statements are available.

The successful candidate will serve as director-elect in 2009 and will subsequently serve as the Division VII director for the period 2010–2011.

Other IEEE offices are also being contested, dependent on member location and societal affiliations.

President's Message
   President Wanda Reder offers PES membership a detailed insight into 2008 goals and incentives and reviews the responsibilities of each of our Vice Presidents. This must read is posted.

Fellow Nominations-Class of 2010
   It’s never too early to begin thinking about nominating worthy Senior Members for election to the grade of IEEE Fellow. Details of the process are posted.

PES Position on Education and Workforce Needs
   PES has organized an initiative to solve the challenges in meeting power and energy engineering education and workforce needs. The initiative, by Dennis Ray and Gregory Reed, is posted for our members to read.

Tribute to the late M. S. A. A. “Shawky” Hammam
   Professor Hamman, an PES long-time stalwart, who passed away on 29 January 2008 is fondly remembered by colleagues and former students.

PES Sponsored Meetings
2008 MEETINGS

2009 MEETINGS

PES Power Systems Conference and Exposition (PSCE)
15 - 18 March. Seattle, Washington, USA, contact General Chair Hardev Juj, email hsjus@bpa.gov or co-chair Max Emrick, email memrick@ci.tacoma.wa.us Web: http://www.pscexpo.com/2009/

Powertech
28 June - 02 July. University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania, contact Professor Mircea Eremia, Department of Power Systems, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 313 Spl. Independentei, 060042 Bucharest, Romania +40 21 4029344, fax: +40 21 4029446, email powertech2009@system.power.pub.ro or eremia@ieee.org, web: http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/powertech/2009

PES General Meeting (GM)
26 - 30 July. Calgary, Alberta, Canada contact General Chair W. O (Bill) Kennedy, b7kennedy@shaw.ca or Technical Program Chair Om Malik, maliko@ieee.org

IEEE News
IEEE Presidents Change the World Contest Launched  
    IEEE has launched the first IEEE Presidents’ Change the World Competition. The contest is open to college and university students who demonstrate excellence in the design and implementation of technology that can solve a life challenge for the benefit of humanity. Entries will be accepted from 1 September 2008 through 28 February 2009. Click for details.

Awards
IEEE and PES Awards Presented at General Meeting 
     At the 2008 General Meeting, the Awards Luncheon featured the presentation of a number of IEEE and PES awards to deserving PES members. The ceremony was presided by PES Awards & Recognition Committee chair Karen Butler-Purry. IEEE President Lewis Terman presented the IEEE awards and PES President Wanda Reder did the honors for PES awards: A listing of the awards and the recipients, together with a photomontage, is available.

P&E Magazine - September 2008
"In My View" Column 
   The September P&E Magazine In My View column by Ralph Masiello reflects on the development of phasor measurement units (PMU) and concludes that it, coupled with the development of microprocessor based protection, may well be the most significant development in T&D technology in the recent past. He makes that reliability as a driver is acceptable in the wake of a system disaster but is less so as time passes. In the wake of this conclusion, he offers some cost benefit analyses that are made possible with the utilization of wide area measurement systems (WAMS), a provoking thought asking for further discussion, which should be sent to molken@ieee.org.

Accomplished PES Members Recognized
New Senior Members
   At its July meeting in Indianapolis, IN, USA the IEEE Admissions and Advancement Committee recommended the elevation of a number of PES members to the grade of Senior Member. Their names and sections are posted.

PES Technical Co-sponsored Meetings
2008 Meetings

International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of Power
28 Sep. - 01 Oct. University of Wollongong, NSW2522, Australia, contact Sarath Perera, School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, NSW2522, Australia, +61 2 4221 3405, fax +61 2 4221 3236, e-mail: sarath@uow.edu.au, Web: http://www.ichqp2008.org.au

North American Power Symposium (NAPS)
28 - 30 Sep. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, contact William Rosehart, Department of Elec. & Comp. Eng., University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary Alberta T2N 1N4, CANADA, Tel: +1 403 220 5005, fax: +1 403 282 6855, e-mail: rosehart@ucalgary.ca, Web: http://www.naps2008.net/

Power India Conference
12 - 15 Oct. New Delhi, India, contact Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay, DII - 62 Pandara Road, New Delhi - 110003, INDIA, Tel: +91-11-23383778 (H), fax: +91-11-26170541 (W)
e-mail: pesrrap@ieee.org, Web: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi/piconf.htm

International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)
24 - 27 Nov. Singapore SMU Conference Center, contact Dr. Sanjib K Panda, C/O Integrated Meetings Specialist Pte Ltd, Block 998 Toa Payoh North #07-18/19, Singapore 318993, Tel: (65) 6356 4727, Fax: (65) 6356 7471, e-mail ieeeicset@inmeet.com.sg, Web:�� http://icset2008.org/

2009 Meetings

Annual Conference for Protective Relay Engineers
31 Mar. - 02 Apr. College Station, Texas, USA, contact Don Russell, Texas A&M University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 238 WERC, 3128 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3128, 1 979 845 7912, fax 1 979 458 1139, e-mail bdrussell@tamu.edu, Web: http://engineering.tamu.edu/prorelay/

Int. Conference on Sustainable Power Generation and Supply
06 - 07 Apr.  Nanjing, China, contact Gillian Purdy, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queens University of Belfast, Belfast BT9 1NN, UK, Tel: 0044 289097 4664, fax: 0044 2890667023, e-mail secretary@ukchinanet.com, Web: http://www.ukchinanet.com/UK-China Network_conference.html

European Electricity Market (EEM)
27 - 29 May Leuven, Belgium, contact Dirk Van Hertem, e-mail dirk.vanhertem@ieee.org Web:www.eem09.com

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