IEEE 2016

Mike Thesing

Patterson & Dewar Engineers, Inc.


IEEE Senior Member and engineering manager for Patterson & Dewar Engineers in Norcross Georgia. He has worked in SCADA product development and power systems projects for nineteen years and prior to that, eight years in process control and military communications. His current work involves the design of and consultation on utility SCADA, automation, and communication projects. Mike was the working group chair and principal author of IEEE Std. 1615-2007, “Recommended Practice for Network Communication in Electric Power Substations” as well as author of the DNP3 over IP network standard for the DNP Users Group. Other industry contributions include work on IEEE Std. C37.2, IEEE Std. 1613, and IEEE Std. C37.1. He has written articles for and spoken at a number of industry conferences on topics ranging from SCADA communications to flexible AC transmission system (FACTS) applications. Michael is co-inventor on a US patent relating to programming meters over a network and holds a BSEE from the University of Notre Dame.

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