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Walk down the fascinating history of the developing Electrical Industry in the Inland Empire Area

February 5, 2014

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IEEE Student Power & Energy Society Chapter at Cal Poly Pomona,

IEEE Foothill Section Power & Energy Society Chapter and IEEE Foothill Section

Invite you to attend a talk on

An Electrical History of Inland Empire

To be held on Saturday, February 15, 2014, time 8:30 Am to 11:00 AM at

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

3801 West Temple Avenue, Pomona, CA 91768

Building 162, Room 1002

Speaker: Roger Fenton

Education:

• B.Sc. (Electrical Engineering-Power), Portland State, Oregon;

• B.Sc. (Physical Education), Oregon State, Oregon

• A.Sc. (Industrial Technology), PCC, Oregon

• Relay Testman, SCE

• Substation Test School, SCE

• Substation Operators School, SCE

• Apparatus Engineer (School of Hard Knocks), SCE

• NETA Test Technician

• Journeyman Inside Wireman, Oregon

Prior Work Experience: As a Professional Engineer (PE), I have 36 years in the electrical business doing residential, commercial, industrial, production, petro-chemical, marine, and utility. My first full time working job was standing knee deep in a room full of blood and bone manure and shoveling the “pile” coming off the conveyor belt into the far corners of the room. From that experience I have learned to know the real stuff from the artificial. I have had many jobs such as chasing sheep, building barns, working in sweat factories for minimum pay, teaching high school, sales, clerking, unemployed, millwright, lifeguard, electrician, technician, engineer and even got to dodge zoomies while working in containment at SONGS

Brief Abstract of the talk:

Most people consider the East Coast USA as being in the forefront of electrical trail-blazing. However, the Inland Empire provided the seeds for modern transmission generation design and revolutionized the electric utility industry with two pioneer hydroelectric plants. San Antonio plant established the commercial feasibility of long distance transmission. The Mill Creek plant introduced three-phase alternating current. In 1888, Highgrove plant was the first hydroelectric generating station to go into commercial service in California. Almarion Decker, Cyrus Baldwin, Charles Lloyd, Gustavus Newman, Orville Ensign played important roles