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Industry News“BCEA aims to give back whenever we can, andthis is one way of helping students pursuing a careerin the electrical field,” said BCEA executive director,Barbette Cejalvo. “They are the future of our associationand will become the backbone our industry.”The endowment will annually generate two$1000 bursaries for one student in the first year ofthe Electrical Trades program and one student in theElectronics Engineering Technology program.“Camosun College has a strong partnership withBCEA in jointly coordinating training for the electricalindustry,” said Kari Frazer, development officer atCamosun. Susan Haddon, executive director of theCamosun College Foundation, accepted the donationat the opening session of BCEA’s Electrix in Victoria.Haddon thanked BCEA for its donation and announcedthe college had topped the donation with $5000, makingthe endowment fund a total of $30,000.For more information about BCEA Scholarshipsand Endowments, visit www.bcea.bc.ca.The Island goes further to protect hearingRecently approved amendments to Prince EdwardIsland’s Occupational Health and Safety Act, Noiseand Confined Space regulations, are now in placeand designed to help prevent hearing loss due tonoisy workplaces. The Noise amendments includerequirements for a hearing protection program in theworkplace, including noise measurement, educationand training, engineered noise control, hearing protection,posting of noise hazard areas, hearing testsand an annual program review.The Confined Space amendment expands the definitionof “confined space” and provides greater clarityto OHS training providers and industry stakeholderson what is considered a confined space.“Prevention is the most effective way to minimizethe overall emotional, physical and financial burdenof workplace injuries,” said Carolyn Bertram,minister of communities, cultural affairs and labour.“These positive changes to our Occupational Healthand Safety Act regulations ensure greater protectionfor Island workers and employers in regard to workplacehealth and safety standards.”P&S files GFCI patent infringementlawsuit against HubbellPass & Seymour/Legrand (P&S) announced the filing of a patentinfringement lawsuit concerning GFCIs against Hubbell Inc.(Orange, Conn.) in the U.S. District Court for the NorthernDistrict of New York. The complaint alleges that Hubbell hasinfringed 15 U.S. patents by selling several different GFCIs. Thepatents relate to various proprietary safety features invented byP&S and incorporated into GFCIs sold by P&S.In addition to an award of unspecified damages, P&S seeksa court-ordered injunction against Hubbell to prohibit making,using, importing, offering for sale and selling the infringingGFCIs. An injunction would be effective against Hubbell andanyone in active concert or participation with Hubbell whoreceives notice of the order, such as distributors who resell theinfringing devices and contractors who use or install them.IEEE relays/underground cablesand substation transformer standardsThe IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.)has approved standards regarding protective relays on distributionlines, Ragowski Coils for protective relaying and concentricLightweight Thermal ImagerFrom Industry HeavyweightNOW WITH FUSION!240 x 320 thermal resolution FLIR FUSION: pintpoint problems fast 1.3 mega pixel visible imageneutral corrosion in underground cable. It has also approved asubstation transformer standard, and has begun work on a teststandard for partial discharge measurements and approved revisionsto two other standards.• IEEE C37.230, Guide for Protective Relay Applications toDistribution Lines, examines the advantages/disadvantagesof ways to protect electric power distribution systems. Itlooks at the fundamentals of this topic, line configurationsand schemes, and identifies problems and solutions with themethods used in distribution line protection.• IEEE C37.235, Guide for the Application of Rogowski CoilsUsed for Protective Relaying Purposes, is the first guide onthis topic. It establishes criteria and requirements for applyingRogowski Coils (RC) in electric power systems and providesrequirements for the performance, operation, testing, safety considerationsand maintenance of RC-based current transducers.• IEEE 1617, Guide for Detection, Mitigation and Controlof Concentric Neutral Corrosion in Medium VoltageUnderground Cables, includes discussion of the consequencesof significant loss of the concentric neutral and recommendationsfor mitigating and controlling cable concentricneutral corrosion.tEducational grant programdonates multimetersThe 287 and 289 DMMs “are theperfect tools for students”, saidDavid Green, director of marketingand education programs at FlukeCanada. “Their features and capabilitiesallow students to makethe measurements and solve theproblems that they will face whenthey are in the workforce.”Fluke Electronics Canada hasannounced it will donate over$23,000 worth of digital multimetersfor students in Industrial andElectronics programs through the Fluke EducationGrant Program.Instructors in accredited programs can apply forseparate grants of the new Fluke 287 and 289 Truermslogging multimeters with TrendCapture; 10winners will be selected to receive Fluke 287 meters,and 10 Fluke 289 meters. Each will receive a grantof two (2) Fluke digital multimeters. The 287 and289 retail for $565 and $599, respectively.Grant applications will be reviewed by a committeefrom Fluke Canada for program elementsincluding breadth of course offering, degree/certificationqualifications granted, statistics and plans forusing the Fluke DMMs within the curriculum andreasons for receiving the grant. The winning institutionswill be announced in February 2008.Instructor applicants must be registered on theFluke Education partnership program. Membersof the Fluke Educators Partnership Program canapply for the grant by completing the grant applicationforms available online at www.flukecanada.ca/Education. 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