Autor: James K. Niemira

Stanley H. Horowitz, Retired Consulting Engineer, American Electric Power, BSEE City College of New York. Mr Horowitz worked at American Electric Power Service Corp. from 1950 to 1989, serving as head of the System Protection Section and assistant head of the Electrical Engineering Division and Consulting Electrical Engineer.?He was a lecturer at Columbia University Graduate School and a guest lecturer at the Universities of Wisconsin, Marquette, Auburn, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lund University and Grenoble University. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and served as chairman of the IEEE/PES Power System Relaying Committee from 1975-1978. In 1995 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and in 2008 was awarded the PES Life Achievement Award. Mr Horowitz was chairman of Study Committee 34-Protection and Control of the International Conference on Large High Voltage Electric Systems (CIGRE) from 1980-1986. In 1997 he was awarded the CIGRE Attwood Associates Award. He has co-authored a textbook and authored over 24 technical papers; he was also editor-in-chief of the IEEE Power Engineering Society magazine „Computer Applications in Power” until 2002. Arun G. Phadke, Retired Research University Distinguished Professor, Virginia Technical University, Life Fellow-IEEE, member National Academy of Engineering