Wow, HornTootin, if I didn't know better I'd think you were just an alternate screenname of mine. I'm a system protection engineer II myself.
I'm changing companies (actually position also) in a month, mostly for money. Was going to ask for a counteroffer, but decided it wasn't worth the...
After I got my master's degree I ended up teaching a semester of high school algebra and geometry as an emergency certified teacher. After that I got my career started in electric utilites.
Teaching is rough, but I might go back to it later as a sort of retirement.
Many of my students refused...
Thanks for the responses, pro or con!
I'm a relatively new protection engineer (three years). As we replace aging equipment and upgrade substations, there is often a discussion of whether we should put in a control house. It's good to see a few opinions on the matter.
Does anyone have some good references about why it is better to have relays in the control house than at the breaker?
I figure having it in the control house is better so that emergency maintenance on the breaker can happen safer and faster during rain or other inclement weather. Also I have...
Our older way is to have UF detected on the low side of the transformer. We have UF enable switches for every feeder. At the feeder, the UF trip contact (in series with the UF enable switch) is in parallel with the other sources of trip (overcurrent, etc.).
Our newer way is to let the...
I've looked into this and, if I were to pursue it, I would take the Patent Bar first. Passing that, I would try to get a start as a Patent Agent. A Patent Agent can represent a patent with the patent office, and can do everything a lawyer can except draw up contracts (or really work out...
I unapolgetically admit that I like direct answers to direct questions.
A lot of engineers think alike but we don't all necessarily learn the same way. Often in school I found other engineers would struggle with the theory and that the problem solving came naturally. I usually understand the...
A lot of companies, large and small, realize that a new employee straight from school will actually require more work to train that the amount of work that will come out of the engineer. Companies that do this have to rely on loyalty and decency of the employee to stick around once they are...
"I have been delaying on this matter so much and it is so embarrassing to ask such basic questions to my supervisor as well."
I ask basic questions to my supervisor all the time. He knows I'm an idiot until I get some more basic real world experience under my belt.
I forgot to add that I'm also about two years into my power company job as a junior protection engineer. I started off in substation design but got myself moved away from that pretty quickly because if I loved physical design I would have gotten a mechanical engineering degree.
So I'm also...
There is also more to power engineering than AutoCAD. Is there a protection engineer where you work that you could ask about what his job is about? Or maybe an engineer who develops models and analysis of the power grid, and projections about future growth?
Also, if you really like...
I got the information I needed from "Electric Power Distribution Handbook" by Tom A. Short. There's a preview of some pages on google books.
http://books.google.com/books?id=CTmcEVsLy_cC&pg=PA313&lpg=PP19&dq=permanent+faults+temporary&output=html&sig=ACfU3U346ieI4uIq6TgIiZ6-QDQTms0j-w
My boss...
