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Distinguished Service Award 2017
Bill Taylor received the 2017 Technical
Committee Distinguished Service Award with the following citation:
For his leadership of cable accessory
Working and Discussion Groups and for mentoring of new engineers via educational
presentations at Subcommittee and Educational Programs.
He spent 14 years as an
electrical engineer for several petrochemical plants on the Houston ship
channel. He joined the 3M Electrical Markets Division in February 1989 from
which he retired in June 2015 after 26 years with 3M. During his time with 3M,
Bill focused on power cable accessory product development and cable accessory
application engineering to provide solutions to a variety of utility and
industrial customer cable accessory needs.
Outside of work, he has
been very active in community volunteering activities that have included:
·
Junior
Achievement,
·
National
Engineer’s Week,
·
Mentoring at
Wooten Elementary (local Austin Adopt-A-School program),
·
Meals on Wheels
As a result of which, he
won 3M’s Corporate Volunteer of the Year Award in 1997.
·
Member of IEEE
Industry Applications Society (IAS) and its Petroleum and Chemical Industry
Committee (PCIC), which provides an international forum for the exchange of
electrical applications technology related to the petroleum and chemical
industry.
·
Member of the
IEEE Power Engineering Society
·
Member, Insulated
Conductors Committee
where he has participated in and chaired many discussion and standards groups
that included the following:
o
Chairman, Working Group
B1, Revision of IEEE 48 Standard Test
Procedures and Requirements for High-Voltage Alternating Current Cable
Terminations Rated 2.5 kV through 765 kV.
o
Chairman
Working Group B10, Guide to Select
Terminations for Shielded Power Cables 5-46kV.
o
Member of
Executive Committee including
Chairman
during 2004 - 2005.
Bill has
published numerous cable accessory related technical papers in IEEE publications
and magazines and has presented at several technical conferences including the
following:
·
“IEEE 48
and 404 are Taking Off in a new Direction”, Fall 2014 Subcommittee B (w/Jeff
Madden)
·
“Joint
Failure Investigation”, Spring 2014 Subcommittee B
·
“Evaluation of Joints and In-Line Modulars Under more than 50 Feet of Water”,
Spring 2014, Subcommittee D, (w/Doug DePriest)
·
“Failure
Analysis Procedure for Medium Voltage Cable Accessories”, Spring 2014,
Subcommittee B, Group B12 Minutes
·
“Connectors under Joints Test Data”, Fall 2013 Subcommittee B
·
“Taped
Joints Review”, Spring 2013, Subcommittee B, Group B21,
·
“Paper
Insulated Lead Covered Distribution Cables and Accessories”, Fall 2010 ICC
Educations Session
·
“Japanese
Covered Conductors”, Fall 2008, Subcommittee A, Group A19
·
“A New
Cold Shrink 69 kV Termination”, Fall 2008, Subcommittee B
·
“Electrical Stress Control”, Fall 1999, Educational Session
