IEEE SACRAMENTO VALLEY SECTION Chair ViceChair Treasurer Secretary

IEEE SACRAMENTO VALLEY SECTION Chair: Vice_Chair: Treasurer: Secretary: Awards and Recognition: Professional Activities: Preetham B. Kumar Suresh Vadhva Herb Tanzer Mahyar Zarghami Suresh Vadhva Website: http: //www. ewh. ieee. org/r 6/sacramento/

IEEE SACRAMENTO VALLEY SECTION SOCIETY CHAPTERS SOCIETY CHAPTER CHAIRS COMPUTER: LEOS : IA: VT/COM : PES: EMBS : Suresh Vadhva Russ Tatro Mohammad Vaziri Fethi Belkhouche Cory Smith Warren Smith

IEEE SACRAMENTO VALLEY SECTION CENTRAL AREA, REGION 6 Affiliate Active Number Associate Member Active 26 Fellow Active 38 Graduate Student Member Active 92 Member Active 988 Senior Member Active 125 Student Member Active 147 TOTAL 1416

IEEE SACRAMENTO VALLEY SECTION STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS • California State University, Sacramento • California State University, Chico • University of California, Davis • University of the Pacific • ITT Technical Institute

IEEE SACRAMENTO STATE STUDENT BRANCH Student chapter advisor: Dennis Dahlquist • Sacramento State Student Branch Officers • • Joseph Gonzalez – President Gonzalez Jan Micheal Golez – Vice President Jan Micheal Golez Ricky Martinez - Treasurer Martinez Marco. Antonio Ledesma- Secretary Marco. Antonio Ledesma Mark Fleyshgauer – Event Coordinator Aaron Sotelo Sahagun – EJC Representative RK Ravuri - Webmaster Ravuri http: //athena. ecs. csus. edu/~ieee/

IEEE SACRAMENTO VALLEY SECTION UPDATES • New Power Engineering Society (PES) Chapter • New Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT) Student Chapter at UC Davis

IEEE SACRAMENTO VALLEY SECTION EVENTS • “Wires Down” Improvement Program at PG&E. By Scott Hayes & Damon Thayer – System Protection – PG&E on March 02, 2016 • “Current Transformer: Attributes, Selection Criteria and Performance Characteristics”. By Harjeet Singh Gill, Ph. D. , P. E. , M. B. A. – System Protection – PG&E on March 09, 2016 • “Transformer Protection – Tradition and Trends” By Miroslav Ristic, – System Protection – PG&E on March 16, 2016 • Power Electronics Workshop on March 18, 2016 • OFC 2016 IEEE Young Professionals Lunch & Learn on March 23, 2016 • “An overview of California Electric Power System operation from Market and Reliability perspectives”. By Brian Cummins & Veera Raju Vinnakota, Ph. D - EMS Information Technology – CAISO on March 30, 2016 • “PG&E’s Helms Pump Storage Plant: Rotor Replacement Project”. By Russell Loeffler – Project and Resource Planning, Power Generation, PG&E on April 06, 2016

SACRAMENTO STATE STUDENT BRANCH ACTIVITIES • Build Your Own Arduino Workshop Wed, March 2 • ECS Career Fair Friday, March 4 • PES Evening with Industry Friday, April 8 • PES Evening with Industry Friday, April 29