Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Location: Meet at Herak 246 Conference Room

Tour Schedule: 6:00 – 7:00 PM – social hour, pizza

7:00 – 8:00 PM – (tour)

Reserve by February 15

Email to omill@ieee.org , or call Olga Mill at (509)981-6015.

Parking

Attendees can park in the large parking lot located north of College Hall (Administration Building) that is marked for Faculty and Administration. Campus security has been advised of our meeting. The link to the parking map is

http://www.gonzaga.edu/About/CampusMap/GU_CampusParking_09-10.pdf.

This map also shows the location of the Herak Center and the PACCAR Center.

Tour Description:

A tour of the Lab-Volt lab in the Paccar Center will be held at 7:00 PM.  This will be followed by a tour of the ZagOps Center in the Herak Center.

According to gonzaga.edu, the Lab-Volt power simulators allow students to simulate power system behavior under both normal and fault conditions. The Gonzaga University PACCAR Center for Applied Science is an advanced laboratory for robotics and artificial vision research.

The ZagOps Center is used for training power system operators in the Electrical Grid Operations course that is a part of Gonzaga’s Transmission and Distribution Program.