Emerging Technologies Seminar
Winter Term 2006-07

(All EMTM students, alumni and invited guests are welcome to attend ETS lectures. For prospective students interested in a selected topic or session, please inquire with the Admissions Office: 215-898-2897 or emtm-admissions@emtm.upenn.edu.)

Saturday January 6, 2007
> Recruitment: How Corporate Business Leaders
Practice the Art of Picking the People They Need
(Executive Panel Discussion)

Friday January 19, 2007
> Current and Promising Energy Technologies
(Noam Lior, Penn Engineering)

Friday, February 2, 2007
> Electric Power Grid Emerging Technologies
(Insup Lee, Penn Engineering)

Friday, February 16, 2007
> The PJM Plane Never Lands:
Managing the World's Largest Electric Grid
(Audrey Zibelman, PJM Interconnection)

Saturday January 6, 2007

Recruitment: How Corporate Business Leaders
Practice the Art of Picking the People They Need
Executive Panel Discussion (See InSITE story, Recruiting the Best)

Join moderator Jim Senior, veteran corporate speechwriter, and five panelists in various industries who will share their insights, best practices, tips and examples of how they choose candidates for their business teams. EMTM students, alumni and invited guests can join the conversation with your comments and questions to the panel on team selection, and what works — and what doesn't — in a job interview.

Panelists include:

Patricia A. Bradford
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Human Resources and Training
Unisys

Michele C. Heid
Managing Partner
Heidrick & Struggles International

Jan Maiden, EMTM'03
Global Director of Product and New Market Innovation
Federal Mogul, Systems Protection Group (SPG)

William H. Morgan
CIO
Philadelphia Stock Exchange

Brian P. Tierney
Chief Executive, Philadelphia Media Holdings L.L.C.
Publisher, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News

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Friday January 19, 2007

Current and Promising Energy Technologies
Noam Lior
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Science
Penn Engineering

This talk with discuss various energy options with emphasis on fossil fuel (oil, gas and coal) power generation, nuclear (fission and fusion), solar, wind, the hydrogen question, and space power for terrestrial use.

Noam Lior is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and Second-Law analysis, energy conversion, solar energy, combustion, flash evaporation and water desalination, destruction of hazardous wastes by photocatalysis and supercritical oxidation, heat treatment. Dr. Lior is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Energy and the Thermal Science and Engineering Journal. He received his BS and MS from the Technion in Israel and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The University of California, Berkeley.

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Friday, February 2, 2007

Electric Power Grid Emerging Technologies
Ken Huber
Manager, Advanced Technology
PJM Interconnection

The PJM Interconnection, a North American Regional Transmission Organization (RTO), operates one of the largest power grids and energy markets in the world. PJM serves about 51 million people. The company dispatches 164,634 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity over 56,070 miles of transmission lines. PJM has more than 400 market participants and has administered over $50 billion in energy and energy-service trades since the regional markets opened in 1997.

The coordinated expansion planning and operation of the power grid over a very large service area, coupled with robust and liquid energy markets, can substantially enhance the efficient and reliable operation of the system. It also places new demands on control room operators. This presentation addresses some of the technical challenges associated with the operation of a very large power grid, as well as the advanced technologies being leveraged to provide the system operators with enhanced decision support tools. In particular, recent or planned developments in the area of system visualization, intelligent alarming and real-time dynamic security assessment will be covered.

Kenneth M. Huber is currently Manager, Advanced Technology at PJM Interconnection, serving as the lead for conceiving, developing and applying advanced technology to enhance PJM's value creation and productivity. Prior to joining PJM, Mr. Huber was employed for 23 years by AT&T Bell Laboratories and subsequently AT&T Labs. His various responsibilities included new services creation, vertical industry development and corporate strategy. Mr. Huber is the holder of 12 patents and 6 current patent applications. One patent, Communications Systems Having Unified Messaging, was awarded patent of the year by Lucent Technologies in 2000. Mr. Huber holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He earned an MS in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Drexel University.

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Friday, February 16, 2007

The PJM Plane Never Lands:
Managing the World's Largest Electric Grid
Audrey Zibelman
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
PJM Interconnection

Named in December as the "Energy Transporter of the Year" by the Platts Global Energy Awards, PJM ensures electric reliability and manages wholesale markets serving 13 states and the District of Columbia. The lifting of electricity price caps attendant with the maturation of restructuring in a number of states has created a political environment questioning the tenants of the free enterprise system at the heart of organized markets. At the same time, we are undertaking unprecedented transmission expansion in an effort to improve reliability, relieve pricing pressures and ensure the demands for electric supply will be met in the 21st century. This presentation will chart the challenges and opportunities PJM faces in both the public and private sectors."

Audrey Zibelman is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of PJM Interconnection, which operates the world's largest competitive wholesale electricity market and ensures the reliability of the largest centrally dispatched grid in the world. Ms. Zibelman came to PJM from TRANSLink LLC, where she was Chief Executive Officer and board chair. Previous to TRANSLink, Ms. Zibelman held several senior management positions at Xcel Energy Corporation. As Vice President of Transmission, she was responsible for more than 17,000 miles of transmission assets, serving over 3 million electric customers in 11 states. She also served at Xcel as the Vice President of Integration Management where she successfully completed the integration of two regional combination electric and gas utilities. Before earning her law degree from Hamline University Law School, Ms. Zibelman received her BA from The Pennsylvania State University. She served as a volunteer with the Peace Corps in Chad, Africa, where she taught English as a second language.

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