Raymond D. Findlay
B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., Ph.D., P.Eng., FIEEE, FEIC

Emeritus Professor,  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering  Power Research Laboratory  McMaster University  1280 Main Street West  Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1       E-mail: findlay: at: power.eng.mcmaster.ca

List of IEEE Activities

List of talks, speeches, etc.

Awards

1. IEEE Region 7 (Canada), Student Paper Prize, 1963
2. J. Edgar McAllister Fellowship, 1965-66
3. National Research Council Studentship, 1966-67
4. National Science Foundation Fellowship (USA), 1966
5. ASEE-Dow Outstanding Young Faculty Award, 1972
6. National Research Council Senior Industrial Fellowship, 1972-73
7. ASEE Outstanding Campus Activity Co-ordinator, Zone 1, 1979
(Shared with R.E. Burridge)
8. IEEE Regional Activities Board Innovation Award, 1989, "For exceptional leadership in the promotion and improvement of student activities in Region 7, IEEE."
9. Fellow, IEEE, 1994, for "Contributions to analysis and measurement of electrical machine characteristics."
10. Fellow, EIC, 1996
11. Canadian Pacific Railway Engineering Medal, EIC, 1998.
12. IEEE- Canada Merit Award, 1999
13. IEEE Millennium Medal, 2000
14. IEEE Canada W.S.Read Outstanding Service Medal, 2002
15. IEEE Toronto Section Centennial Medal, 2003
16. IEEE Canada McNaughton Medal, April 23, 2007 in recognition of "outstanding contributions to the analysis and design of electrical machines, particularly to the theory and measurement of shaft currents in induction motors, and for leadership in the profession".

I received my B.A.Sc.(1963), M.A.Sc.(1965) and Ph.D.(1968) degrees from the University of Toronto in Electrical Engineering. I taught at the University of New Brunswick from 1967 to 1981, when I joined McMaster University as a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

In 1972-3, I worked at CGE in Peterborough. I was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southhampton (1979-80), and at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia, and the Katholieke Universiteit, Belgium, both in 1988.

My research Interests are illustrated by the following set of recent publications:

• Brocilo, D.; Chang, J.S.; Findlay, R.D., "Light emission from the surface of spike-type discharge electrode at negative corona discharge in a non-thermal plasma reactor; " Plasma Science, 2003. ICOPS 2003, Jeju, S.Korea, IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts. The 30th International Conference on , June 2 - 5, 2003, Page(s): 254 -254
• Abu-EI-Magd, M.A.; Hamoud, G.A.; Findlay, R.D, "Use of probability methods for planning customer delivery systems," IEEE CCECE 2003, Volume: 1 , May 4-7, 2003, Page(s): 339 -342
• Shalaby, A.; Abul-Magd, M.A.; Findlay, R.D. "The electricity industry is changing worldwide: what is the relevance of experience for developing countries?" IEEE CCECE 2003, Volume: 1 , May 4-7, 2003, Page(s): 587 -590,
• Abu-El-Magd, M.A.; Findlay, R.D. "A new approach using artificial neural network and time series models for short term load forecasting," IEEE CCECE 2003, Volume: 3 , May 4-7, 2003
  Page(s): 1723 -1726.
• D.Brocilo, J.S.Chang and R.D.Findlay, "Numerical Validation of Collection Efficiencies of Spike-Plate and Wire-Plate Single-Field Electrostatic Precipitators," European Aerosol Conference 2003, Madrid, Spain, 31 August - 5 September, 2003.
• D.Brocilo, J.S.Chang, R.D.Findlay and K.Urashima, "Characteristics of Bottom Ash and Aerosol Particle Compositions Generated by Burning Incense," European Aerosol Conference 2003, Madrid, Spain, 31 August - 5 September, 2003.
• Abu-El-Magd, M.A.; Hamoud, G.A.; Findlay, R.D., " Application of the Value-Based Approach to the Planning of Customer Delivery Systems," Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on ,Volume: 19 , Issue: 4 , Nov. 2004, Pages:2086 - 2092
• Findlay, R., Liu, F., "Experiments on Single Layer ACSR Conductors," 12th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC) 2006, Miami, Florida USA April 30 – May 3, 2006. PD 6 - 2, Page(s):306 - 306
• del Perugia C., Findlay R.D. and Stranges N. "Calculation of Starting Performance for Large Two Pole Induction Motors with Comparison to Test Values", Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 7-10, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.
• Raymond D. Findlay and Fang Liu, "Prediction of Ontario Hourly Load Demands and Neural Network Modeling Techniques", The 2006 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2006), Ottawa, Canada, May 7 – 10, 2006, pp 1164 – 1167
• del Perugia C., Findlay R.D. and Stranges N. "Skin Effect Factor Along the Rotor Bar Extension of Squirrel Cage Induction Motors", IEEE International Magnetics Conference, May 8-12, 2006, San Diego, USA.
• M. S. Al-saud, M. A. El-Kady, and R.D. Findlay, "Accurate Assessment of Thermal Field and Ampacity of Underground Power Cables", CCECE06 Conference, Canada, May, 2006.
• M. S. Al-saud, M. A. El-Kady, and R.D. Findlay, "Application of finite-element sensitivities to power cable thermal field analysis", IASTED International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (EuroPES 2006), Rhodes, Greece, June 26 -28, 2006, Paper # 521-126.
• Fang Liu; Findlay, R.D.; Qiang Song, "Discussion and Prediction of Mechanical Properties for Single Layer ACSR," ICICIC '06., First International Conference on Innovative Computing, Information and Control, 2006. Volume 1, 30-01 Aug. 2006 Page(s):138 - 141
• Fang Liu; Findlay, R.D.; Qiang Song, "A Neural Network Based Electrical Loss Prediction of Bare Overhead ACSR Conductors," 2006. ICICIC '06. First International Conference on Innovative Computing, Information and Control. Volume 2, 30-01 Aug. 2006 Page(s):392 - 395
• del Perugia C., Findlay R.D. and Stranges N. "A Comparison of 3D Models for Determining Skin Effect in Induction Motor End Rings", International Conference on Electrical Machines, September 2-5, 2006, Chania, Greece.
• M. S. Al-saud, M. A. El-Kady, and R.D. Findlay, "Power cable thermal field sensitivities using Finite-Elements", IASTED International Conference on Power, Energy and Applications (PEA 2006), September 11- 13, 2006, Gaborone, Botswana., Paper # 506-059.
• del Perugia, C.; Findlay, R.D.; Stranges, N., "Skin Effect Factor in the Bar Extension of Large Two-Pole Induction Motors by Three-Dimensional Finite-Element Simulations," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Volume 42, Issue 10, Oct. 2006 Page(s):3404 - 3406
• Fang Liu, Raymond D. Findlay and Qiang Song, "A Neural Network Based Short Term Electric Load Forecasting in Ontario Canada", The joint International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modeling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'2006 and International Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce – IAWTIC'2006, Sydney, Australia, November 28 – December 1, 2006.
• Fang Liu, Qiang Song and Raymond D. Findlay, "Accurate 24-hour-ahead Load Forecasting Using Similar Hourly Loads ", The joint International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modeling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'2006 and International Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce – IAWTIC'2006, Sydney, Australia, November 28 – December 1, 2006.
• Qiang Song, Fang Liu and Raymond D. Findlay, "Improved Fuzzy Neural Network Control for a Pneumatic System Based on Extended Kalman Filter", The joint International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modeling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'2006 and International Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce – IAWTIC'2006, Sydney, Australia, November 28 – December 1, 2006.
• Qiang Song, Fang Liu and Raymond D. Findlay, "Generalized Predictive Control for a Pneumatic System Based on an Optimized ARMAX Model from Neural Network ", The joint International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modeling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'2006 and International Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce – IAWTIC'2006, Sydney, Australia, November 28 – December 1, 2006.
• M. S. Al-saud, M. A. El-Kady, and R.D. Findlay, "Optimization of power cable thermal performance using finite element-generated gradient," Proc. Of Ninth IASTED International Conference on Power and Energy Systems, Clearwater, Florida, USA, January 3-5, 2007, pp63-68.
• D.Brocilo, J.Podlinski, J.S.Chang, J.Mizeraczyk, and R.D.Findlay, Electrode geometry effects on the collection efficiency of submicron and ultrafine dust particles in spike-plate electrostatic precipitators, Electrostatics 2007, Oxford, England, 26-29 March 2007.
• M. S. Al-saud, M. A. El-Kady, and R.D. Findlay, "Simulation of finite-element sensitivities for power cables in complex media", The 18th IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation (MS-2007), May 30 – June 1, 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, pp 84-89.
• M. S. Al-saud, M. A. El-Kady, and R.D. Findlay, "Experimental Investigation of Power Cable Performance", International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives, April 12-14, 2007, Setubal, Portugal, pp 595-599.
• M. S. Al-saud, M. A. El-Kady, and R.D. Findlay, "A Novel Finite-Element Optimization Algorithm with applications to Power Cable Thermal Circuit Design ", IEEE Power Engineering Society, 2007 General Meeting, 24-28 June 2007, Tampa, Florida USA.
• Fang Liu and R.D.Findlay, "Investigation of mechanical properties of single layer ACSR based on an Integrated Model," Elesevier, Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 78, Feb., 2008, pp 209-216.
  
  

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