This tutorial material has drawn on the considerable expertise of the IEEE Harmonics Working Groups and their task forces. The contributors have generously donated their time and effort to what we believe will be a valuable reference work on the subject. We would like thank all contributors for their effort in completing this task.

Special thanks to

Mr. Tom Gentile, Chair of the PES Harmonics Working Group

Dr. Mack Grady, Chair of the General Systems Subcommittee of the PES T&D Committee 

for their guidance and encouragement

Dr. M.E. El-Hawary, Chair of Life Long Learning Subcommittee of the IEEE Power Engineering Education Committee,

for providing generous support to many aspects of this activity.

for the effort they put in the hard copy of this tutorial

Eric Gunther and Mark F. McGranaghan, Electrotek,

Dr. Mack Grady, University of Texas at Austin

for providing harmonic simulation software.

Dr. Wilsun Xu, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

for providing data for test systems.

Dr. C.J. Hatziadoniu, Southern Illinois University

for providing a simple harmonic study example.

Pete A. Lewis, Managing Director of the IEEE Educational Activities Department

Peter Wiesner, Director of the IEEE Educational Activities Department

for pursuing the topic of "Tutorial on Harmonics Modeling and Simulation" for the CD-ROM

Patricia Mickus, Media Producer, The IEEE Educational Activities Department, pmickus@ieee.org

for her support and guidance on developing this CD-ROM.

James Grbac, The IEEE Educational Activities Department

for assisting Patricia Mickus with the review and development

Jason Lockhart, Director, The Multimedia Lab at Virginia Tech, multimedia@vt.edu

for his help in editing the CD-ROM audio and his assistance in using the multimedia facilities

Matthew Learn, Lab technician, The Multimedia Lab at Virginia Tech

for his help with the softwares used to develop the CD-ROM.

Shane Lawson, Senior Student, The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech

for making animation files for this CD tutorial

Chris Comeau, Senior Student, The Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech

for reorganizing presentation viewgraphs

Xuzhu Dong, Research Scientist, The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech

Liling Huang, Research Scholar, The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , Virginia Tech

for their help on developing the scripts for presentation viewgraphs

Jean Mahseredjian, jean@ireq.ca IREQ, Hydro-Quebec

Stephen Middlekauff, swmiddle@duke-energy.com

for reviewing the CD-ROM.

A. Wayne Galli, Siemens Westinghouse Technical Services, Richmond District Office. Email: galliaw@notes.westinghouse.com

Sonja Chapelle, chapel@mail.sd.gat.com

Brian K. Johnson,Dept. of Electrical Engineering,University of Idaho. Email: bjohnson@ee.uidaho.edu,  b.k.johnson@ieee. URL: http://www.ee.uidaho.edu/ee/power/brian/

Zhao Yang DONG School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia Email: dong@ee.usyd.edu.au URL: http://ee.usyd.edu.au/~dong

Benedito Donizeti BonattoDepartment of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Email: benedito@ece.ubc.ca URL: http://www.ee.ubc.ca/~benedito/index.htm  

Arun Narang Energy Storage & Power Quality, Customer Power Department Strategic R&D, Email: arun.narang@oht.hydro.on.ca

Ramon Saenz Jr., CSW Power Quality Group, Tulsa, Email: rsaenz@csw.com

for their comments on the draft of the CD-ROM.

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