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EDUCATION

MBA, Wilfred Laurier University, Ontario, Canada, 1998

Ph.D.Electrical Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1996

M.S.Electrical Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1986

B.S.Electrical Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1982

SCOPE OF PRACTICE

Dr. Salem provides deep expertise in a wide range of electric power fields spanning renewable energy, electrical machines, lightning and surge protection, and new product introduction. Respected power engineering industry role model and leader skilled in managing new technology, programs, and projects. Distinguished as a power engineering subject matter expert. He provides the benefits of his broad experience and unique capabilities to identify and clarify the interactions between technologies, economic and business considerations, and the role of standards and regulations. His technical depth lies in a number of diverse technical areas and disciplines, including renewable generation, electric machines, surge protection, and power quality.

HONORS

• GE Fleet Reliability “Best of Award” for solving wind fleet problems. (2014)

• IEEE PES Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award for participation in rewriting IEEE Std. 67-2005 Guide for Operation and Maintenance of Turbine Generators. (2008)

• IEEE Power Engineering Society Outstanding Engineer Award. (2003)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

GE Renewable Energy (2007– 2018)

Served as a Senior Technical Support Manager heading root cause analysis and field tests to solve design and quality issues.Hand-selected to serve as a Senior Manager for Wind Diagnostics (2007-2012) to build and lead the wind diagnostics team who provided early failure detection within the global wind turbine fleet to facilitate quick corrective actions by GE engineering and by customers.

• Led a number of Root Cause Analysis related to wind generators, lightning damage, system grounding and power quality issues.

• Participated in three wind-turbine fire investigations and contributed to the root cause analysis, recommendations, and corrective actions.

• Defined a roadmap for wind diagnostics that leverages existing SCADA data for short-term diagnostics and builds on New Products being developed. Led the team to develop new technology to enhance diagnostics capabilities and developed business cases using detected failure data to illustrate the value of condition monitoring to customers and GE leadership.

GE Energy Services (1999 – 2007)

Served as an Engineering Program leader to lead a team of Program Managers working on Generator NPI initiatives, while still managing a major new product introduction program on extending the interval between generator outages.

• · Led a multi-functional team from GE Global Research Center, engineering, GE-India Research Center, and outside vendors in developing new and comprehensive monitoring systems for generators. Generator Global Monitoring System (GMS), advanced partial discharge analyzer, fiber optics wedge tightness sensor, and multifunction sensor were developed, tested and validated at customer sites as part of the NPI program. Diagnostics were used to create rules for future prediction and vibration analysis.

• Led multifunctional team from GE Global Research Center, GE engineering, and outside vendors in program to uprate and upgrade large liquid cooled generators . The program offered up to 12 % uprate to liquid cooled units, adding hundreds of MW capacity to some of large liquid cooled generators by revisiting old design limits and offering innovative technical solutions and product development to increase generator ratings. Solutions included revisiting Electromagnetic core-end stepping design and offering core-end cooling baffle.

• Collaborated with a business consultant to develop a financial risk management tool to drive generator maintenance decisions based on machine condition, repair history, and repair cost.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION AND RECOGNITION

• Co-Chair of the IEEE PES SPDC Working Group 3.6.11 on Wind Power Facilities Electrical Protection Guide.

• Member of the International Council on Large Electrical Systems (CIGRE) working group C4.36 on “Winter Lightning Parameters and Engineering Consequences for Wind Turbines”.

• US national member at the CIGRE subcommittee on Electric Machinery (2006-2012) and appointed the convener of New Technology Study group (2008-2012).

• Gave a series of talks on Wind Energy and Wind Generators at CIGRE meetings in Sydney and Paris and IEEE local Section in Schenectady NY in 2008 and 2009.

• Led the CIGRE working group to write a guide on “Economic Evaluation of Refurbishment/Replacement Decisions on Generators” released in 2015.

• Invited as a guest speaker at the International Conference of Management of Technology (MOT) In Tokyo Japan to give a talk on The Trends in Industry-Academic Collaboration in Managing Technology.

• Senior member of IEEE.

• Elected IEEE Schenectady Section Chair in 2005 and 2006.

• Elected Member of IEEE Engineering Management Society Board of Governors 2003-2005.

• Registered Professional Engineer of Ontario 1997-2000.

PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS

• Author and co-author of 13 technical papers.

• Granted 21 US patents as co-inventor: topics include generator uprate, electromagnetic design, and monitoring & diagnostics.