Speakers

Richard D. Kirby is a senior engineer at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) in Houston, Texas. His focus is time-domain continuous waveform streaming and recording, including monitoring, metering, power quality, transient recording, and disturbance detection. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Oklahoma, and Texas. He has 32 years of diverse electric power engineering experience. He received a BS in engineering from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1992, and in 1995, he earned his Master of Engineering in electric power from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Richard has coauthored eight technical papers on topics related to the protection, control, metering, and fault location of electric power systems. His work has been published in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, and IEEE Industry Applications Magazine. He is a senior member of the IEEE Power & Energy Society and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society.