Sheldon of Niagara Power Transformer

Biography:

Sheldon P. Kennedy graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1975. As part of his co-op program at Penn State, Sheldon worked for the U. S. Steel Corporation in the Coal Mining Division in Uniontown, Pennsylvania and the West Penn Power Corporation in utility distribution engineering in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. Upon graduation he worked for the Allegheny Power Service Corporation in Greensburg, Pennsylvania as a Transmission Substation Engineer and as a Rate Engineer. In 1982 he joined the R. E. Uptegraff Manufacturing Company, a transformer manufacturer, in Scottdale, Pennsylvania as Chief Electrical Engineering 1985 he joined Niagara Transformer Corporation in Buffalo, New York as Engineering Manager, and became Vice President – Engineering in 1988. He retired full time in June, 2023, but is a consulting engineer to Niagara Power Transformer Corp. He consults privately as Manager Member of Sheldon P. Kennedy Engineering, PLLC.

Sheldon is the Chairman of the Rectifier Transformers Working Group in the IEEE PES Transformer Committee, and chaired IEEE C57.18.10-1998, 2003, 2008, and 2021 IEEE Practices and Requirements for Semiconductor Power Rectifier Transformers. He is the past Chairman of the Sealed Dry Type Transformer Working Group, C57.12.52 and chaired C57.12.52-2012 IEEE Standard for Sealed Dry-Type Power Transformers, 501 kVA and Higher, Three-Phase, with High-Voltage 601 to 34500 Volts, Low-Voltage 208Y/120 to 4160 Volts- General Requirements. He chairs the Neutral Grounding Devices Working Group, C57.32 and chaired C57.32-2015 Standard for Requirements and Testing of Neutral Grounding Devices in the IEEE Transformers Committee. He is the past chair of the IEEE Transformers Committee Insulation Life Subcommittee. He received the “Outstanding Contributor” award in 2015 “Outstanding Service” award: in 2021 from the IEEE PES Transformers Committee. He was elevated to an IEEE Fellow in 2016 “for leadership in the technology and standards for rectifier, inverter and harmonic-mitigating transformers”. He is the IEEE PES Transformers Committee Fellows Coordinator. He is the United States industrial convertor transformers representative to IEC from the ANSI United States National Committee Technical Advisory Group. He was the NEMA Transformer Section Chairman from 2000 to 2003. He is the past Chairman of the Accredited Standards Committee C57 – Transformers, Regulators, and Reactors, 2002 - 2005. He is also a member of the Industry Applications Society and past Chairman of the Electrochemical Subcommittee of the PCIC 2007 -2010. He is a registered Professional Engineer and member of NSPE. He is the author of Doble, IEEE PCIC and IEEE PPIC papers. Sheldon is also the author of the Rectifier Transformer chapter in the CRC book, “Electric Power Transformer Engineering”. 

He is a registered Professional Engineer in the states of New York and Pennsylvania and a member of the Erie Niagara Chapter of the New York Society of Professional Engineers of the National Society of Professional Engineers. He served as Secretary, Vice President, President and Director of the Fayette Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers in the 1980’s..

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Address:1755 Dale Road, , Buffalo, New York, United States, 14225