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The Fall 1998 Didactic session will be held on Wednesday afternoon from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. The session, on Utility Cable Quality Assurance, will be coordinated by ICC Vice Chairman, Mike Walker. The particpants will be:
Neal K. Parker, P.E. received a BSEE from Oregon State University and an MBA from City University. He joined Puget Sound Energy in 1978, where he has held a variety of positions in Operations and in T&D Engineering. Mr. Parker currently oversees engineering and provides operating and maintenance support for underground transmission and submarine cables.
Salvador Rodriguez been employed with Public Service of New Mexico for 17 years with 15 of those years in the Distribution Standards Department. His primary materials responsibilities are medium voltage cable and low voltage wire and cable. Salvador also does consulting work with his company's transmission department. He is a CADD system operator within his department which enables him to design, update, and revise company engineering drawings and company technical publications.
Michael L. Walker (M'87) was born in Madill, Oklahoma on August 31, 1952. He received an Associate in Electronics from South Oklahoma City Junior College in 1977 and a B.S. in Electrical Power Engineering Technology from Oklahoma State University in 1979.
From 1971 to 1974 he served in the U.S. Army as a Specialist in Ground Surveillance and Electronic Warfare. Since 1979, he has worked for Houston Lighting & Power Company in Distribution Engineering. His expertise is in the utilization of overhead and underground cables for distribution applications, underground equipment and electrical conductor hardware.
Mr. Walker has authored or co-authored various technical papers related to power cables and their behavior on distribution systems. He is a Vice Chairman of the ICC, a member of the AEIC-Cable Engineering Section, Chairman of the EL&P delegation to ANSI C8, and an industry advisor to EPRI on various cable projects.
Carlos Katz was born in West Germany on August 18, 1934. Received an Electrical Engineering degree from Polytechnic Institute of Quito, Ecuador in 1961 and a MS degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey in 1970.
From 1962 to 1971 he was associated with General Cable Corporation Research Center and from 1971 to 1974 with the laboratories of Phelps Dodge Wire & Cable. In 1974 he became Assistant Director of R&D at General Cable Corp., and later Technical Director Power and Control Cables for General Cable International. He has been with Cable Technology Laboratories as Chief Research Engineer since its founding 1978. Mr. Katz’s special field of activity is the investigation of extruded and laminar dielectric high voltage power cables, the manufacture and properties of such cables and the extension of service life of installed cables.
Mr. Katz is the author of 31 technical papers and holds 16 U.S. patents related to high voltage cables. He is a voting member of ICC and a member of CIGRE.
Dean Williams is a research coordinator in the Underground Systems Program of Georgia Tech NEETRAC. He is responsible for conducting all cable quality assurance tests at NEETRAC and is involved in a variety of research programs related to the evaluation of underground cables.
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