John Paserba joined the Mitsubishi Electric Power Products Inc, (MEPPI) Power Systems Division in December 1998. Mr. Paserba began his career with General Electric’s Power Systems Energy Consulting Department in August 1988. He earned his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Gannon University, in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1987. In 1988 he earned his Master of Engineering in Electric Power Engineering, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York.

In his career, Mr. Paserba has primarily been involved with the study of electric power systems, contributing to a variety of projects in areas of research and development, application engineering, control design, equipment modeling, system simulation, field measurements, and project management. Mr. Paserba also taught part of the graduate-level GE Power System Engineering Course and has instructed portions of numerous technical seminars and short courses at GE, Mitsubishi Electric, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, both nationally and internationally.

John Paserba is currently the Secretary for the IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) Power System Dynamic Performance Committee and was the Chairman of the IEEE PES Power System Stability Subcommittee. He also sat on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and currently serves on the Editorial Board for the PES magazine Power & Energy. He has served as the Technical Program Chair for the 2002 IEEE PES Winter Power Meeting held in New York. He is active in numerous other IEEE PES technical Subcommittees, Working Groups, and Task Forces. He is also active in CIGRE, another international power systems society and had chaired a CIGRE Task Force (Power System Oscillations) and contributed to several others. Mr. Paserba has authored or co-authored over three dozen national and international technical publications, including articles for the comprehensive CRC Press Control Handbook and CRC Press Electrical Power Engineering Handbook. In addition to being on the National Speaker List for the IEEE Student Professional Awareness Conferences (S-PAC), he is a coordinator/member of the IEEE-USA Student Professional Awareness Committee representing IEEE Region 2, and is an Industrial Representative to the IEEE Regional Activities Board Student Activities Committee (R-SAC). He is also currently the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania IEEE Sections’ Student Activities Chair (SAC).

John Paserba has received two IEEE Prize Paper Awards (1987 and 1998). He earned an IEEE PES Recognition Award for “For Outstanding Leadership as Chairman of the Power System Stability Subcommittee 2000-2001,” and was additionally recognized as an officer in the PES “Technical Committee of the Year (Power Systems Dynamic Performance Committee) - 2002,” In 1994, Mr. Paserba earned the Power Systems Outstanding Young Engineer Award for his technical contributions to General Electric.

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MANAGING TO MANAGE YOUR CAREER

From the time you enter college until you retire, the choices you make will help determine the direction of your career. Mr. Paserba will explain the importance of identifying and making choices with respect to such areas as getting your career started, goal setting and career-path planning, developing technical and non-technical skills, and professional society involvement. This talk is filled with serious practical steps you can use now, and as you start your career, presented in a fun and interactive way, and includes numerous anecdotes based on the speaker’s personal experience as an engineer.

The goal of this presentation is to help you identify some of the choices in which you have control and explain how to make the right choices in order to guide your career in the direction you desire.