John Paserba joined Mitsubishi Electric Power Products Inc, (MEPPI) Power Systems Division in December 1998, and is presently the MEPPI Product Line Manager in the Medium Voltage Circuit Breaker Department. He was the Manager of the Power Systems Engineering Services Department from 2002-2007. Mr. Paserba began his career with General Electric’s Power Systems Energy Consulting Department in August 1988.

During his career, Mr. Paserba has primarily been involved with the study of power system dynamics and transients using both time- and frequency-domain techniques and the application of controls to improve power system dynamic behavior, with emphasis on high-current/high-voltage power electronics installations. Mr. Paserba regularly teaches the courses in the Pennsylvania State University’s Advance Power School, at the University of Pittsburgh, and has taught in General Electric Power System Engineering Course as well as professional development courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

John Paserba is a Fellow Member of IEEE and was the Chair for the IEEE PES Power System Dynamic Performance Committee and presently serves on the PES Governing Board as the Vice-President of PES Meetings Activities. He was also the Chairman and Secretary of the IEEE PES Power System Stability Subcommittee for over 5 years. He has sat on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and is currently on the editorial board of the IEEE PES Magazine “Power & Energy,” where he was the Guest Editor for the September/October 2004 and 2006 issues.

Mr. Paserba has authored or co-authored over 60 national and international technical publications, including articles for the comprehensive CRC Press Control Handbook, CRC Press Electrical Power Engineering Handbook, and the CRC Press Power System Stability and Control Volume of the 2nd edition of the Power Engineering Handbook. Mr. Paserba was Chair (2004-2006) and Region 2 Coordinator (2002-2006) of the IEEE-USA Student Professional Awareness Committee. He is also an Industrial Representative to the IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Board Student Activities Committee (MGA SAC) and the Chair of the MGA SAC Student Professional Awareness Subcommittee (SPAA). John serves on the MGA Geographical Units Support Committee. In 1994, Mr. Paserba earned the Power Systems Outstanding Young Engineer Award for his technical contributions to GE.

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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.

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