Instructors

Dr. Murty V. V. S. Yalla,
President, IEEE Fellow

Dr. Murty V.V.S. Yalla has been with Beckwith Electric Co. since February 1989 and presently holds the position of President and serves on the Beckwith Electric Board of Directors. In this capacity, he provides the leadership to develop and implement strategies for product development, marketing, sales, manufacturing, quality control, finance, and staffing. He was Vice President of R&D/Engineering from 1994 to 2004.

He received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Andhra Polytechnic, Kakinada, India in 1976, Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, College of Engineering, Kakinada, India in 1981, Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in 1983 and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick, Canada in 1987. From 1988 to 1989 he was teaching and conducting research on digital power system protection at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He has published several research papers in international journals on digital protection. He holds four U.S. patents in the areas of digital controls and protective relays.

Dr. Yalla was the U.S. delegate to the International Electrotechnical Commission (Geneva, Switzerland) Technical Committee 95 Ad Hoc Working Group on Relay Functional Standards. Presently he is the Convener of the IEC Technical Committee 95 Maintenance Team 4 -- Measuring Relays and protection equipment: Functional Standards. He is also a member of the CIGRÈ (Paris, France) Working Groups B5.04 Modern Techniques for Protecting and Monitoring of Generating Plants and B5.05 Modern Techniques for Protecting, Controlling and Monitoring of Power Transformers.

In 2006, Dr. Yalla was elected to Fellow Grade by the IEEE Fellow Committee for his contributions in computer relays for power systems. Dr. Yalla is an active member of the IEEE Power System Relaying Committee (PSRC) for the past 15 years. He is a member of several working groups in PSRC and presently chairs the Working Group which is revising IEEE Standard C37.102 "Guide for AC Generator Protection." He chaired the Working Group "Application of Multifunction Generator Protection Systems," of the Rotating Machinery Protection Subcommittee of the PSRC. He co-authored an IEEE PES tutorial on the "Protection of Synchronous Generators." Dr Yalla, who chaired the working group, received the IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) Working Group Recognition Award for an outstanding technical report "Application of Peer-to-Peer Communications for Protective Relaying" at the IEEE PES General Meeting in Denver, CO, June, 2004. He also received the 2005 IEEE Florida Council Outstanding Engineer Award.

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Thomas R. Beckwith,
CEO

As CEO of Beckwith Electric Co., Inc., Tom provides the leadership to develop and implement strategies for product development, marketing, sales, manufacturing, quality control and staffing. In addition to his main responsibilities, Mr. Beckwith will be an important contributor to strategic planning and growth of Beckwith Electric and will continuously provide valuable input into the development of new products and services.

Tom Beckwith has over thirty-five years experience in the electric power industry, encompassing the fields of product and systems design, field applications and commissioning, and sales and marketing. He has served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for RFL Electronics in New Jersey, Consultant for Bectech International and was General Manager of the International Division of Basler Electric. Beginning in 1970, Tom worked for Beckwith Electric Co., initially as an R&D Design Engineer and later in Systems Engineering, Field Commissioning and as Production Manager. He subsequently held positions as Vice President of Sales and Marketing and President of the Beckwith Engineering Services and Training (BEST) division.

Tom has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from Case Western Reserve University and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of South Florida. He is a member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society and the IEEE Industry Applications Society. He has served on various working groups in the Power Systems Relaying Committee. He is a co-inventor of a 1993 U.S. patent on a Multifunction Protective Relay System.

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Chuck Mozina,
Consulting Engineer

Chuck Mozina is a Contract Consultant, Protection and Protection Systems for Beckwith Electric Company, Inc., specializing in power plant and generator protection. His consulting practice involves projects relating to protective relay applications, protection system design and coordination.

Chuck is an active 20-year member of the IEEE Power System Relaying Committee (PSRC) and is the past chairman of the Rotating Machinery Subcommittee. He is active in the IEEE IAS I&CPS committee, which addresses industrial protection system. He is the past U.S. representative to the CIGRE Study Committee 34 on System Protection and has chaired a CIGRE working group on generator protection. He also chaired the IEEE task force that produced the tutorial "The Protection of Synchronous Generators," which won the PES's 1995 Outstanding Working Group Award. Chuck is the 1993 recipient of the PSRC's Career Service Award.

Chuck has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and has authored a number of papers and magazine articles on protective relaying. He has over 25 years of experience as a protective engineer at Centerior Energy, a major investor-owned utility in Cleveland, Ohio where he was the Manager of the System Protection Section. For the past ten years, he was Application Manager for Protection Products with Beckwith Electric Company. He is also a former instructor in the Graduate School of Electrical Engineering at Cleveland State University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Ohio.

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Clark Shaughnessy,
Customer Technical Support Manager and Regional Sales Manager for Asia

As Customer Technical Support Manager of Beckwith Electric Company, Clark directs customer service efforts to satisfy customer requirements and expectations for technical aspects of company products and services.

Clark has also been Regional Sales Manager of Asia since 1999. Clark has over thirty years of experience in the power industry, along with extensive international marketing expertise. Prior to joining Beckwith Electric, Clark was the Asia Segment Manager for General Electric Company's Power Management division where he was instrumental in expanding sales of protection and control products and systems. Clark also had been employed by Florida Power & Light Company for over five years, first as a supervisor of system protection engineering services and later as a division system protection manager. Prior to that, he had been with General Electric Company for fifteen years as an engineer in the transmission and distribution field.

Clark is a graduate of the General Electric Advanced Power System Engineering Course. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Union College in New York. He is a member of the IEEE.

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Tom Branch,
Systems Project Engineer

Tom Branch is a Systems Project Engineer for Beckwith Systems Engineering (BSE) of Beckwith Electric. Tom has been with Beckwith Electric since 1986, beginning as a Design Engineer responsible for the development of an advanced capacitor control and later as a Project Engineer for a digital signal processing-based multifunction protective relay. He was also responsible for all product line refinements including testing, customer support, and application-specific modifications. Tom has a BSEE and an MSEE from the University of South Florida. He is a member of the IEEE and the Power Engineering Society.

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Steve Turner,
Sr. Applications Engineer

Steve attended Virginia Tech from 1980 to 1985 and received a BSEE while co-oping with Dominion Power. Steve returned to Virginia Tech in 1989 and received an MSEE. Steve was a summer intern with American Electric Power while in graduate school and developed an adaptive algorithm to detect out-of-step conditions on the Georgia - Florida 500 kV intertie.

Steve first worked for GEC Measurements as an application engineer from 1991 to 1996 and focused on transmission line protection, working with customers such as Commonwealth Edison, Dominion Power, Florida Power and Light, Entergy and Bonneville Power Administration. Steve then left GEC to work for SEL, Inc. from 1996 to 2001 as their first international application engineer. While at SEL, Inc. Steve worked in many new markets such as Europe, South America and Asia.

Steve next worked for Progress Energy from 2001 to 2007 in their transmission department. While at Progress Energy Steve developed a patent for double ended fault location on transmission lines and successfully applied it while there. Steve is now a Sr. Applications Engineer for Beckwith Electric Company.

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Hugo Monterrubio,
Regional Sales and Applications Manager for the Central US. Product Manager - Power System Recorders

Hugo Monterrubio is Regional Sales Manager for Central U.S. and Canada for Beckwith Electric. Hugo brings over 18 years of extensive engineering and management experience in International power and industrial automation projects.

He received his Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering (BSECE) degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology in 1988 and a Masters of International Business Administration (MIBA) degree from St. Louis University in 1997. He is a member of the IEEE (since 1998) and of the PSRC.

Hugo has extensive experience in protective relaying, voltage regulators, excitation control, motor bus transfer systems, communications and power and process automation projects. Prior to becoming the Regional Sales Manager for Central US and Canada he was the Business Unit Manager for Excitation Systems and later for Power Quality. Before joining Beckwith he worked 9 years for Basler Electric as an International Sales Manager and also managed the International Service Solution Center in Miami.

Hugo recently participated in modernization and networking projects with the Panama Canal Authority (Gatun, Miraflores and Maden stations), PREPA - Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, PowerGen in Trinidad and Tobago (Port Spain and Point Lisas), PDVSA in Venezuela (Las Morochas refinery), Ecopetrol in Colombia (Complejo Industrial de Barrancabermeja), CFE in Mexico (Pidiregas 306).

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Erwin T. Jauch
Utility Power System Consultant for Beckwith Electric Company, Inc.

His consulting practice involves projects relating to T&D power system studies and equipment applications and training.

Jauch has more than 47 years of experience including 20 years as a senior application engineer and manager of business development for General Electric's Electric Utility System's Engineering Department located in Schenectady, New York. Jauch is a former instructor in the Graduate School of Electrical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College in New York as well as Auburn University.  He was a senior engineer with Central Illinois Light Company (CILCO) for five years.

Prior to becoming a consultant, Jauch was Manager of Application Engineering for Control Products and Systems with Beckwith Electric Company. Prior to that, he was an engineering consultant to Beckwith Electric on protection and control product lines.

Jauch has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Bradley University in Illinois and has authored numerous technical papers and magazine articles on power transformers, controls, and protective relaying. He is a life senior member of the IEEE, a member of the Power Engineering Society, and is active in the Power Transformer Committee and the Substations Committee.

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