Training

 

On-Line Training Sessions

On-line training sessions on ASPEN software and various special topics are offered regularly on the ASPEN training center at aspeninc.teachable.com. The sessions feature on-demand access to recorded videos of lectures and demos, self-paced exercises, and quizzes. Participants also take part in online discussion forums as well as live QA sessions with ASPEN instructors.

Schedule, brochure, and on-line registration form will be available on the Events page at least one month before each session.

On-Site Training

Having training classes on site is a good alternative to sending the engineers to the regularly scheduled classes, especially for large organizations that have many users that need to be trained in the use of ASPEN software. We have setup a Certified Trainer program to provide this service.

Each Certified Trainer is:

  • An engineer with many years of experience in the electric utility industry.
  • A long-time user of ASPEN software.
  • A good teacher and a good listener, capable of explaining complex concepts to other engineers.

ASPEN requires the trainers to take refresher courses regularly to keep up with the latest changes in the software. We review their certification annually.

Their biographical information of the trainers is shown below, in alphabetical order of their last name. The trainers are not employees or contractors of ASPEN. For this reason, you must write or call them directly if you are interested in the services they offer.

Sylvio Cayres

In Portuguese: Sylvio Cayres graduou-se em Engenharia Elétrica na Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, em 1979. De 1978 a 1990 trabalhou para FURNAS e ITAIPU como Engenheiro de Proteção de Sistemas Elétricos. Fez sua pós-graduação em Sistemas de Potência na Universidade Federal de Itajubá em 1989. Em 1990 fundou a CP Engenharia e desde então tem desenvolvido vários projetos de consultoria e treinamento para o setor elétrico. A CP é atualmente o suporte técnico da ASPEN em países de idiomas Português e Espanhol.

In Spanish: Sylvio Cayres recibió su grado en Ingeniería Eléctrica de la Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, en 1979. De 1978 a 1990 trabajó para FURNAS e ITAIPU como Ingeniero de Protección de Sistemas Eléctricos. Recibió su postgrado en Sistemas de Potencia de la Universidad Federal de Itajubá en 1989. En 1990 fundó CP Ingeniería y desde entonces ha desarrollado varios proyectos de consultoría y capacitación a la industria eléctrica. CP es actualmente el soporte técnico de ASPEN en países de idiomas Portugués y Español.

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Contact information:
Tel/Fax: (55) (21) 2570-2051 / Celular: (55) (21) 9608-2993
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Srdjan Dimitrijevic

Srdjan Dimitrijevic has a BScEE (1998), MScEE (2002) and PhD (2012) from University of Belgrade, Serbia. Srdjan gained relay protection experience from working in a utility and from consulting services internationally for various power generation, renewable generation, transmission, and distribution projects. He has also worked in projects that cover a power system’s lifecycle, starting from developing of a power system master plans on a national level, planning and project execution of new power plants (i.e., substations, power generation plants, etc.), and analysis of existing power systems on a national and/or plant level, including individual fault investigations.

Srdjan has used ASPEN OneLiner extensively for short circuit calculations and relay protection setting studies on new and existing power systems. He is also experienced in other ASPEN products including Relay Database, Line Database, Breaker Rating Module, Power Flow Program, and DistriView. He can provide training courses on all ASPEN products to new users (delivered during an ASPEN product purchase process) and/or experienced users (delivered usually after a Relay Protection Analysis Study project in which Srdjan was involved). Srdjan speaks English and Serbian fluently.

Srdjan is a Senior Member of IEEE and Serbian Chamber of Engineers. He is also author and reviewer of a number of papers in internationally recognized journals related to power systems. His major prior assignments were in Europe and the Middle East.

Contact information:
Tel: + 381 26 512 535
Mobile: + 381 64 16 320 16
Web site: www.relproltd.com
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Larry Gross

Larry has a BSEE from Washington State University and has used OneLiner since 1991. His OneLiner experience includes modeling systems and performing fault and coordination studies for many different utility and industrial applications. Ranging from 4 kV up to 765 kV systems, Larry has used OneLiner for transmission, distribution, generation, reactor, and capacitor protection. Larry's expertise comes from using OneLiner while working for a utility, a relay manufacturer, as a protection consultant, and as a protection department VP for an EPC company. Throughout his career, Larry has been training engineers, technicians, and operators on various aspects of power system protection and strives to meet the training objectives of each audience on a case by case basis. Larry is a registered professional engineer in over 35 states and Canadian provinces.

Contact information:
Phone: (509) 334-9138
Web site: https://www.ECIUSA.com
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Farajollah Soudi

Dr. Soudi received his BSEE from Northern Arizona University in 1982, MSEE from Arizona State University in 1984, and Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1997. He worked for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), one of the largest investor-owned utilities in the United States, from 1984 to 1994. While at PG&E, Dr. Soudi supervised and performed engineering activities associated with transmission and distribution protection:

  • Issued new and revised existing protection standards for both relay settings and design of automatic control and protection schemes.
  • Updated and modified Independent Power Producer interconnection handbook.
  • Provided technical direction to Protection Specialists, Supervise Technicians and Field Engineers in the proper installation and testing of all protective relaying schemes and automatic reclosing facilities.
  • Calculated setting through analysis of short circuit studies for all protective schemes in substations, generating plants, and transmission lines.

At PG&E, Dr. Soudi served as a Principal Investigator and a Project Manager on various R&D projects that included Transmission Fault Location, High Impedance Fault Detection and Distribution Automation.

Since 1994, Dr. Soudi is the president of the Soudi Consultants that provides various protection-related services and training for utilities. He is the author and co-author of several technical papers. He is registered Professional Engineer in the State of California, a senior member of IEEE, and a member of Tau Beta Pi.

Dr. Soudi has used all ASPEN developed software packages in production work and training at PG&E and at Soudi Consultants.

Contact information:
Voice: (925)216-6200
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SynchroGrid

SynchroGrid is an engineering consulting company specializing in system protection for transmission, distribution, and generation utilities. Our services include relay setting development, relay coordination studies, protection and control design, substation design, mis-operation analysis, standardization of drawings and settings, NERC PRC compliance (PRC-001 through PRC-027-1), wide-area coordination studies, and customized automation solutions. SynchroGrid provides innovative services and software to clients across the United States that streamline system processes and power a new direction in system protection.

SyngroGrid has more than ten protection engineers using ASPEN OneLiner daily for relay setting, coordination, and PRC compliance studies for many electric utilities across the US. Several SynchroGrid engineers are experts in ASPEN OneLiner, with our combined experience exceeding 80 years. Our software engineers use ASPEN's OlxAPI to pioneer new techniques of protection automation with their automated relay setting tool, SARA, as well as their software integration and consulting services.

Web site: https://synchrogrid.com
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Phone: 713-471-3429

Mark Yiyan Xue

Mark Yiyan Xue received his B.Eng. from Zhejiang University in China and M.Sc. from the University of Guelph in Canada.  With 20+ years technical experience in power system engineering, Mark is currently the principal of FlexGrid Technologies LLC to provide consulting services and products for utilities and industrial customers. In the past, he had spent 8 years with American Electric Power (AEP), 3 years with GE Multilin and 10 years with ABB.  Through various technical roles, Mark has built expertise in protection & control system design, relay settings calculation, fault analysis, real-time digital system (RTDS) simulation tests, power system modelling, system integration, etc. Mark has one US patent and presented over 10 technical papers in major relay conferences. He is a senior member of IEEE and a Professional Engineer registered in the state of Ohio, USA.

Mark has used ASPEN OneLiner extensively for short circuit calculations and relay settings coordination in transmission and distribution systems. He is also experienced in other ASPEN products such as Relay Database, Line Database, Breaker Rating Module, Power Flow Program and DistriView. Mark provides training courses that can help the audience to not only learn more about ASPEN products but also gain better insight into protective relaying.

Contact information:
Voice: (614)401-8641
Web site: http://www.uauto.solutions
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