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Presentations and videos from the
2014 Ieee PeS gM are available
on the Ieee PeS resource Center
through the Ieee PeS web site (http://
www.ieee-pes.org).
Media coverage in Transmission &
Distribution World magazine captured

The attendance for
the 2014 GM was a
record-breaking total
of 3,123-representing 58 countries.

some of the highlights from the gM's
opening session.
Members and other Ieee PeS supporters are looking forward to the 2015
Ieee PeS general Meeting in Denver, Colorado, at the Sheraton Denver
Downtown.

In Memoriam
Charles L. (Chuck) Wagner, age

engineering, construction, and verification testing for this

88, died 5 August 2014. He was

project. In 1967, he was made manager of transmission

born on 23 November 1925,

systems engineering and was responsible for the appli-

in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

cation engineering and long-range technical guidance for

He received his B.S.E.E. from

the transmission product divisions. In 1976, he was named

Bucknell University in 1945

consulting engineer, from which he retired in 1985. After

and his M.S.E.E. from the Uni-

retirement, he continued doing private consulting on pow-

versity of Pittsburgh in 1949.

er system design and operation.

Following the path set by

Chuck was elected an IEEE Fellow "for contributions

his father, Charles F. Wagner, Chuck joined the Westing-

in the field of extra-high voltage transmission, protective

house Electric Corporation in 1946 and spent his entire

relaying, and power circuit breaker applications." He was

career in the system design, planning, and equipment ap-

also elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

plication areas of electric utility engineering. In 1946, with

He served as the 1984-1985 president of the Power

the Engineering Laboratories, he helped to develop the

Engineering Society (PES) and chair of the PES Technical

ANACOM, the first large-scale analog computer or tran-

Operations Department, the PES Switchgear Committee,

sient network analyzer. In 1950, he joined the Electric Util-

and the PES Power Systems Relaying Committee. He was

ity Engineering Department as a sponsor engineer respon-

also chair of the ANSI C37 Power Switchgear Committee.

sible for assisting electric utility and industrial customers in

He was a member of CIGRE and Tau Beta Pi and was a reg-

problems of equipment application, system planning, and

istered Professional Engineer.

design. In 1960, he led a task force that developed the digi-

Chuck authored over 85 technical papers and articles,

tal protective device coordination program, one of the first

including two IEEE prize papers. He was the recipient of

digital computer programs that coordinated the setting and

the IEEE C.P. Steinmetz Award, the IEEE Herman Halperin

checking relays, fuses, reclosers, and other protective de-

Transmission and Distribution Award, the IEEE Standards

vices on a complete system basis.

Medallion, the Switchgear and Power Systems Relaying

Chuck became project manager for the VEPCO 500-kV

Committee Distinguished Service Award, the PES Merito-

transmission project in 1962, where he was responsible for

rious Service Award, and the PES Technical Council Ser-

the overall direction of the Westinghouse participation in

vice Award.

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grandchildren.

Chuck was a widower with three children and eight

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