Alex McEachern (mack-ECK-urn) TEL +1-510-522-4400 FAX +1-510-522-4455 e-mail:   Alex@McEachern.com Web sites:   Power Standards Lab   PQ1 Power Quality Relay

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Recent travel

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2008 Schedule     Completed       Pending 2 January 2008 - TUV, Norm Chadwick 3 January 2008 - Annual Samotyj dinner! 6 January 2008 - Travel day 7 January 2008 - San Antonio Texas - IEEE - Moncrief 7-8 January 2008 - South Africa? - TC77A WG09 8 January 2008 - UL, Jeff Eirich 9 January 2008 - Reserved by R. Hoffman 12 January 2008 - Travel day 13 January 2008 - 18 January, 2008 - Paris, FRANCE SC77A WG09 19 January 2008 - Travel day 5 February 2008 - Toronto CANADA - Teach seminar - Hydro One 6-7 February 2008 - East coast meetings 16 February 2008 - Aurora/BRP 16-23 February 2008 - GERMANY, HOLLAND (Dresden, Eindhoven, Dusseldorf) - Teach seminar, meetings 25 February 2008 - Annual Dinner - Marek Samotyj 5-6 March 2008 - Portland Oregon - Teach seminar for PacifiCorp major customers Tentative: 17-18 March - TC77A WG06 (Imposimato) - Host at PSL in Alameda, California 10-11 March 2008 - Host Cigre-Cired 4.110 (Bollen) at PSL in Alameda, California 13-14 March 2008 - Host Cigre-Cired 4.107 (Guitterez) at PSL in Alameda, California 22 March 2008 - Kelowna BC Canada 25 March 2008 - Portland Oregon - Semiconductor Energy (SESHA) - confirmed 27 March 2008 - at PSL - Dan Lankford, Wavepoint 27 March 2008 - at PSL - meet with Kobayashi-san of Tokyo Electric Power Co. 1 April 2008 - O'Melveny - annual 5-12 April 2008 - Shanghai CHINA and vicinity - keynote speech at International PQ Conference, etc. 13-15 April 2008 - Seoul KOREA - KEPCO, KEPRI, etc. 21-22 April 2008 - TUV Rheinland - IEC 61010 testing 23 April 2008 - Chicago Illinois - IEEE T&D conference 5-6 April 2008 - Florida - IEEE IAS meeting 7-8 April 2008 - Detroit - GM, Honda, Mead Johnson 16 May 2008 - Bucharest Romania - tentative 18-(22-23) May 2008 - Cigre-Cired 4.110 - Cracow, POLAND 28-30 May 2008 - (tentative) Conference on the European Electricity Market - Lisbon, PORTUGAL 4 June 2008 - Milan ITALY - PowerGrid Europe - A. Eberhard will substitute 6-7 June 2008 - Southern California 16-17 June 2008 - Lisbon PORTUGAL - TC77A WG06 (Imposimato) 20 June 2008 - Seattle - NWEA meeting 1-2 July 2008 - Tennessee - Schneider - Smits, Gruffaz, new IEC WG 5 July 2008 - Aurora/BRP 18 July 2008 - Telecon - Pres of MCG 20-23 July 2008 - Pittsburgh - IEEE PES General meeting 30-31 July 2008 - Portland OREGON 4–6 August 2008 - PQA Conference - Cleveland, Ohio 18-21 August 2008 - PQsynergy 2008 - Bangkok THAILAND 24-28 August 2008 - CIGRE - Paris FRANCE (???) 30 August 2008 - football - Cal v Michigan 1-2 September 2008 - Brussels, BELGIUM - JWG C4.110 - Bollen 12 September 2008 - A.M. Meet with Ron H regarding 16 September 16-18 September 2008 - Dublin IRELAND - JWG C4.107 16 September 2008 - P.M. Ron H, K-P meeting. Sand Hill Road 22 September 2008 morning - Takano - Hioki 23 September 2008 - Dr. Edelen - 3:00PM 25 September 2008 - 2:00PM BP biop 27 September 2008 - football - Cal v Colorado State 4 October 2008 - football - Cal v Arizona State 5-9 October 2008 - Edmonton ALBERTA - IEEE IAS - Chair the power quality session 17-19 October 2008 - Tuscon AZ - Jennifer & family 21-23 October 2008 - ISMI Conference - Austin Texas 25 October 2008 - football - Cal v UCLA 5-6 November 2008 - Remote Conference - Atlanta Georgia 12-14 November 2008 - INDONESIA - PQ Seminar 15-22 November 2008 - INDIA - Hyerdebad, etc. - teach seminars 6 December 2008 - football - Cal v Washington

Professional activities

• Keynote speech - 4th International Conference on Power Quality - Yangzhou, China
• Keynote speech - Asia-Pacific Power Quality '07 Conference - Kuala Lumpor, Malaysia
• World-wide seminars on power measurement and practical power quality
• Extensive world-wide travel to solve difficult power quality problems, especially at semiconductor factories and automobile factories.
• In 2006, honored with the "1906 Award" by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) for exceptional achievement in work fundamental to IEC electric power standards
• Widely recognized as the expert of all experts on SEMI F47 voltage sag immunity and semiconductor tool electrical engineering.
• Convenor / Chairman of IEC 77A WG09 - power quality instrumentation standard - IEC 61000-4-30. Active in writing drafts, maintaining informal web site.
• IEC 77A WG06 - voltage dip immunity standards. Active in writing drafts of IEC 61000-4-11, 61000-4-34.
• Recipient of 2001 Mungenast Award for lifetime contributions to the power quality industry
• Has taught graduate-level courses on power quality in the United States, Canada, Croatia, Japan, Hong Kong, China, South Africa, Germany, France, Singapore, Switzerland, England, Scotland, Mexico, Taiwan, Brazil, New Zealand, Thailand, Korea, South Africa, and Australia.
• Official liason between IEEE and IEC on all power quality matters (IEEE SCC-22, IEC77A)
• Voting member of SEMI Facilities Committee for semiconductor industry. Principal author and secretary of SEMI F47, voltage sag immunity testing standard, 2006 update.
• Senior Member, IEEE. Active on IEEE 1159.x, 519.x working groups.
• Former Chairman of 1159.1 (Power Quality Measurements). Voting member of SCC-22 (Standards Coordination, Power Quality Standards). Regularly provide peer review for IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
• Technical reviewer for papers proposed for a variety of conferences.
• Founder of BMI, the leading power quality instrument manufacturer.
• 22 years on Board of Directors of WPT, parent company of Dranetz-BMI and Electrotek Concepts (no longer a Board member)

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