The best leaders don’t rely on organizational hierarchy to get people to follow them; they’ve mastered the hard and soft skills to get people to want to follow them. In this presentation you will get 12 easy to understand leadership lessons to effectively lead teams and get followers to follow you not because they have to, but because they want to. Leadership Lessons: - Humor - Credibility = Doofus - Knowledge - Listening = Arrogance - Action - Integrity = Distrust - Activity - Focus = Randomness - Wisdom - Experience = Theory - Ability - Effort = Inaction - Leadership - Inspiration = Administration - Charisma - Conviction = Crooked Politician - Courage - Predictability = Recklessness - Smarts - Direction = Absent-Minded Professor - Communication - Candor = Storyteller - Decisiveness - Empathy = Ruthlessness Co-sponsored by: Puget Sound PMI Speaker(s): Lonnie Pacelli, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/283688

IEEE Seattle Section Excom meeting with chapter and society chairs. Agenda: IEEE Seattle Section Excom meeting with chapter and society chairs. - Approval of past minutes. - Treasurer’s report - Secretary’s report - Chapter Reports - Affinity Group Reports - Student Branch Reports - Committee Chair Reports - On-going Business - Follow-up - New Business Items - Action Items; review and updates - Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/285524

Power flow control techniques have been practiced, from using inductors, capacitors, transformers and load tap changers in the earlier days of electrical engineering to power electronics-based solutions in recent years. Even though the costs and complexities of the available solutions vary widely, the basic underlying theory of power flow control is still the same as it always has been. The question is which solution one should employ. The answer depends on knowing what the true need is. The power industry’s pressing need for the most economical ways to transfer bulk power along a desired path may be met by building new transmission lines, which is a long and costly process. Alternately, it may be quicker and cheaper to utilize the existing transmission lines more efficiently. The key is to identify the underutilized transmission lines and harness their dormant capacity to increase the power flows to the lines’ thermal limits. The presentation is designed to provide the basic principles of power flow control theory, an overview of the most commonly used power flow controllers, and future trends. The audience will hear from an expert who actually designed and commissioned a number of power electronics-based FACTS controllers since their inception in the 1990s Speaker(s): Kalyan K. Sen, PhD, PE, MBA, IEEE Fellow, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/282280