Sumatron presents comprehensive 4-day electrical engineering on-site seminars.
The course is based on Sumatron's EE Helper Notebook and covers over 100 calculations in support of protection, operations, maintenance, and the design of generating stations, refineries, and other large industrial facilities. This course is also approved for 3.0 continuing education units by IEEE.
Add one day ($1,000) to include a design and protection review of one of your generating units. During the appropriate time as the course progresses, attendees perform actual plant calculations; this makes the course particularly interesting since you never know what might be uncovered. In essence, the attendees get practice in completing the calculations and the plant gets a design review of their electrical protection systems.
Target Audience:
The seminar is designed for protection engineers, protective relay technicians, distribution engineers, and generating station and large industrial design and support electrical engineers.
Sumatron has completed 9 hotel seminars and 17 on-site presentations of the course for utility protection engineers, nuclear generating stations, municipal utilities, cooperatives, and investor owned power producers.
Students completing the course will have the confidence to perform electrical studies in support of operations, calculate protective relay settings for large generators and auxiliary power systems, recognize protection oversight problems, complete betterment project designs, perform design reviews of existing facilities, and provide calculations in support of facility maintenance.
Course Presenter:
Tom Baker
Tom is currently a consulting engineer for Sumatron in support of large generating stations. With over 40 years of electrical experience, he has performed many electrical design reviews of existing multi-unit generating stations (over 30,000 megawatts); including 1 nuclear, 14 oil/gas, 10 coal, 7 combustion turbine, and 5 off site peaking unit plants in the US and overseas. He has also completed a design review for a major refinery. He is the author of the EE Helper Notebook and developed the EE Helper Software program.
Previously he worked for Southern California Edison (SCE) for 36 years and had progressive responsibility as a protective relay technician, metering engineer, protection engineer, distribution engineer, apparatus engineer and for the last 15 years with SCE he was the chief electrical engineer for the 12 large fossil fueled generating stations.
He holds two patents in electrical power metering, and developed the ideas for two SCE patents, one for a motor analyzer, and the other for a DC fault locator for plant battery and generator excitation systems. He has also developed unique schemes for AC ground detection and for generating station zone 1 backup protection.
Tom completed a Master's degree in electrical power engineering and management.
