Dennis Woodford, president of Electranix Corp. and an engineer of major hydroelectric projects in Canada, will deliver the 67th Steinmetz Memorial Lecture on “Engineers and the Strength of Our National Communities” on Monday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial at Union College.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Woodford was special studies engineer in transmission planning of Manitoba Hydro, where he worked on the Winnipeg –Twin Cities 500 kV interconnection and the Nelson River HVDC project. He is the original developer of the PSCAD/EMTDC simulation software. He is president of Electranix Corporation, a consulting company based in Winnipeg.
He is the recipient of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Uno Lamm Award. He is chairman of the IEEE Subcommittee on HVDC and FACTS, and is active in CIGRE.
Presented by the Schenectady Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Union College, the lecture honors the memory of Charles P. Steinmetz, a Union professor known as the “electrical wizard of General Electric.”
For more information, call 388-6530.