June 2022 / Vol. 27 No. 6

by Khaled Masri, NEMA Program Manager

The NEMA Industrial Systems Division will give an overview of electrical insulation during a short course at the IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference on June 19 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

This course will provide an overview of some of the essential types of insulation used in electrical and transformer machines, including resins and varnishes, flexible insulations, thermoset laminate solid

This course will be of interest to anyone responsible for or wanting to know more about available insulation materials for electrical equipment. It will benefit those responsible for selecting insulation materials, including design engineers and quality personnel. Students and young engineers will also benefit from this thorough introduction to insulating material for electrical equipment.

Speakers include:

• Evanne Wang is an applications development and evaluation expert working with DuPont Nomex® paper and pressboard for the past decade. She is involved with several standards bodies such as IEEE, ASTM, and UL. Currently, She chairs IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 4 on Electrical Insulation, which oversees three standards relevant to the electrical insulation industry (IEEE 1, 98, 99).
• Solomon Chiang is currently the Director of R&D for the Gund Company, a private company with ten manufacturing facilities in four countries and one of the largest global fabricators of polymeric and composite components. Mr. Chiang chairs the NEMA advisory technical committee on Industrial Laminates and consensus body to revise Insulation Material standards and serves as NEMA’s technical advisor to IEC TC 15.  
• Mark Winkeler is the Manager of Application Technology at the ELANTAS PDG, Inc., formerly the P.D. George Company. He is responsible for the application technology group at ELANTAS PDG, Inc. The group’s activities include customer support, agency testing, and prototype processing.
• Will Lee is 3M’s expert in electrical insulating tapes. Mr. Lee’s 25 years of experience includes application, product, and process development roles in the electrical and electronics fields. He currently is an Application Development Engineer supporting the electrical OEM & MRO tape and liquid resin portfolios.