Please join the Chattanooga IEEE Section and PES Chapter for an in-person meeting on Tuesday, Aug 25, 11:30 am, at The Enterprise Center Meeting Space in the Lupton Building, 3rd floor (1010 Georgia Ave., Chattanooga, TN 37402). Lunch will be provided.
Optional $10 meeting fee will go toward IEEE Chattanooga Section Scholarship Fund. Click 'Register Only' if you do not want to donate to the scholarship fund.
Speaker: Akram Saad
Topic: Wildfire challenges and mitigation on power systems
This presentation will provide an overview of methods and technologies that protection engineers can apply to reduce the probability of igniting wildfires. It will also go through a real-world experience of a utility applying some of those concepts.
Bio: Akram Saad received his B.SC in Electrical Engineering from the University of Khartoum, Sudan, in 2014 and a M.SC in Electrical Engineering in 2018 from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Akram joined Danovo Energy Solutions in 2022, He is now a Senior Advisor with the protection settings and substation business area focusing on standard development and T&D settings projects. Prior to that, he was a protection consultant with Patterson Power Engineers from 2018 to 2021. Akram is a senior member of the IEEE, chair of the IEEE PES Chattanooga chapter, and a registered professional engineer.
Directions:
– The Lupton Building has two entrances:
– Georgia Ave entrance (behind the Pickle Barrel): half flight of stairs to the elevators
– Columbia St. entrance (next to the Dwell Hotel): wheelchair accessible
– Meeting room located on the third floor
Parking:
– Street parking can be found at both entrances of the building
– Pay-to-park lots can be found on the corner of market and 11th Street and on Houston Street
Speaker(s): Akram Saad,
Room: Community Space – 3rd Floor, Bldg: Lupton Building, 1010 Georgia Ave, Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States, 37402







