Charles Mozina, P.E.

Speaker Bios

Company/Organization:	Beckwith Electric Co. Inc.
Position:	Consultant, Protection and Protection Systems

Mr. Mozina is a Consultant, Protection and Protection Systems, for Beckwith Electric Co. Inc., specializing in power plant and generator protection.  He is an IEEE Life Fellow, an active 25-year member of the IEEE Power System Relay Committee (PSRC) and is the past chairman of the Rotating Machinery Subcommittee.  He is active in the IEEE IAS committees that address industrial protection.  He is a former U.S. representative to the CIGRE Study Committee 34 (now B-5) on System Protection.

Mr. Mozina has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and is a graduate of the eight-month GE Power System Engineering Course.  He has more than 25 years of experience as a protection engineer at Centerior Energy (now part of FirstEnergy), a major investor-owned utility in Cleveland, Ohio where he was the Manager of the System Protection Section.  For 10 years, he was employed by Beckwith Electric as the Manager of Application Engineering for Protection and Protection Systems.  He is a registered Professional Engineer in Ohio.  He has authored a number of papers and magazine articles on protective relaying