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Louie Powell was initially employed as a cooperative student by Reynolds,
Smith & Hills, A&E, in Jacksonville, FL where he was engaged in power
plant and electrical substation design. After completion of his BEE
degree at Georgia Institute of Technology, he joined General Electric
Company in January 1969. He was assigned to GE sales office in Chicago
for one year as a metals industry requisition engineer, after which he was
transferred to Schenectady, NY where he joined the Industrial Power
Systems Engineering Operation (IPSEO). He advanced through various
assignments with that group, culminating as Manager of IPSEO. In 1994
IPSEO was merged with the electric-utility focused Power Systems
Engineering Department. He continued to be involved in various aspects of
consulting, advancing to the position of Manager, Transmission &
Distribution Consulting, from which he retired in 2004.
During his period at GE, Mr. Powell was engaged in a wide variety of
consulting assignments including design of transmission and distribution
facilities for oil gathering operations in Sumatra and Libya, design of a
Greenfield plastics manufacturing facility, design of automotive
manufacturing facilities in Tennessee and China, design of the grid
interconnection for the NASA MOD-1 wind turbine demonstrator project as
well as several small hydroelectric generation projects, design and
consulting on the development of a transmission system for the country of
Belize, consulting with the Consolidated Edison Company of New York on
the development of a 25 year master plan for underground networks in New
York City, task manager on the US Department of Energy PEDS-19 project to
explore the impact of distributed storage and generation on distribution
protection practices, a strategic assessment of the impact of the Change
of Years Digits (Y2K) on energy reliability for GE Plastics, and a special
assignment as Interim Transmission and Substations Engineering Director
for the Commonwealth Edison Company of Chicago.
Mr. Powell held an appointment as Adjunct Professor in the Center for
Electric Power Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) from
1978-1982 where he taught a graduate course on power system protective
relaying. He also was on the faculty for GE’s Power Design Concept
Seminar from 1978 – 1986, and GE’s Power System Engineering Course from
1994 - 2002.
An author of more than 40 technical papers, Mr. Powell was elected Fellow
of IEEE in 1995. He received the Richard Harold Kauffmann Technical Field
Award from IEEE in 2001, and is currently Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Industry
Applications Magazine. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the
States of New York, New Jersey and Louisiana. |
