Electrical expert to present at ACI Connect conference
Professor Alex Baitch, national president, Engineers Australia, will be speaking at the upcoming ACI Connect conference, to be held in Melbourne on 9 and 10 April.
Professor Baitch is an electrical engineer and the principal of his own consulting practice in electrical distribution, utilisation and energy management, and is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong. He has served Engineers Australia in many roles over the past 30 years, including as chairman of the Electrical College, director of Engineering Education Australia, an inaugural director of RedR Australia and its company secretary/treasurer in its early years of operation, and being a member of the board of management of Engineers Australia.
He has been an active member of a number of Standards Australia’s national and related International Electrotechnical Commission committees and chaired on the International Council on Large Electric Power Systems (CIGRE) committee on demand side integration.
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