IEEE Power & Energy Magazine - September/October 2019 - 8

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TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES ARE AT
the heart of the IEEE and the IEEE
Power & Energy Society (PES). Industry professionals collaborate to develop
standards, guides, technical reports, tutorials, and technology review papers.
These technical activities are conducted via the following 20 technical and
coordinating committees that make up
the PES Technical Council:
✔ Analytic Methods for Power
Systems Committee
✔ Electric Machinery Committee
✔ Energy Development and Power
Generation Committee
✔ Energy Storage and Stationary
Battery Committee
✔ Insulated Conductors Committee
✔ Nuclear Power Engineering Committee
✔ Power System Communications
and Cybersecurity Committee
✔ Power System Dynamic Performance Committee
✔ Power System Instrumentation
and Measurements Committee
✔ Power System Operations, Planning, and Economics Committee
✔ Power System Relaying and Control Committee
✔ Smart Buildings, Loads, and Customer Systems Committee
✔ Substations Committee
✔ Surge Protective Devices Committee
✔ Switchgear Committee
✔ Transformers Committee
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ieee power & energy magazine

Farnoosh Rahmatian

our technical committees
at the heart of PES technical activities

✔ Transmission and Distribution

Committee
✔ Intelligent Grid and Emerging
Technologies Coordinating Committee
✔ Marine Systems Coordinating
Committee
✔ Wind and Solar Power Coordinating Committee.
More details about the PES Technical
Council and technical committees (TCs)
are available at https://www.ieee-pes.org/
technical-activities/technical-council.
Each TC may have a number of subcommittees focused on specific areas
within its overall scope. Within those
subcommittees, working groups (WGs) are
formed, often for a
limited time, to develop standards or technical reports.
PES TCs are particularly active in the
area of standards development. The IEEE, as
a whole, has more than
1,250 active standards and more than
700 under development (https://www
.ieee.org/about/today/at-a-glance.html)
through 39 technical Societies and seven Councils. About half of these standards are developed or maintained by
the TCs of one Society, PES. Managed
by the IEEE Standards Association,
the standards development process, for
the most part, is open and consensus
based, with contributions from volunteer technical experts. PES TCs have a
solid track record in developing strong

standards relevant to the power and energy industry.
In addition to standards and guides,
PES TCs and their WGs develop important technical reports, webinars,
and tutorials (all available at the PES
Resource Center at http://resourcecen
ter.ieee-pes.org/).
As volunteers, most of us who are
involved in PES technical activities
find our TC and WG participation to
be extremely beneficial, both professionally and personally. On the professional side, we have the opportunity
to work with some of the best brains
in our field-to learn from them and
w it h t hem , develop
our leadership skills
with other volunteers,
mentor and be mentored (both resulting
in amazing learning),
and confront some of
our industr y's most
interesting challenges.
On the personal side,
we develop our interpersonal skills, make lasting friendships, and form an extended family
within PES. I encourage you to invest
in your career and personal development by getting involved.
There's an amazing feeling that
comes from seeing the published version of the first technical report or standard incorporating that one paragraph
(or chapter) you wrote. And there's a
great reward in learning from industry
icons and sharing your extended experience with younger engineers. If you are

PES TCs are
particularly
active in the
area of standards
development.

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