Keynote speech - 4th International Conference on Power Quality - Yangzhou, China
Keynote speech - Asia-Pacific Power Quality '07 Conference - Kuala Lumpor, Malaysia
World-wide seminars on power measurement and practical power quality
Extensive world-wide travel to solve difficult power quality problems, especially at semiconductor factories and automobile factories.
In 2006, honored with the "1906 Award" by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) for exceptional achievement in work fundamental to IEC electric power standards
Widely recognized as the expert of all experts on SEMI F47 voltage sag immunity and semiconductor tool electrical engineering.
Convenor / Chairman of IEC 77A WG09 - power quality
instrumentation standard - IEC 61000-4-30. Active in writing drafts, maintaining informal web site.
IEC 77A WG06 - voltage dip immunity standards. Active in writing drafts of IEC 61000-4-11, 61000-4-34.
Recipient of 2001 Mungenast Award for lifetime contributions to the power quality industry
Has taught graduate-level courses on power quality in the United States, Canada, Croatia, Japan, Hong Kong, China, South Africa, Germany, France, Singapore, Switzerland, England, Scotland, Mexico, Taiwan, Brazil, New Zealand, Thailand, Korea, South Africa, and Australia.
Official liason between IEEE and IEC on all power quality matters (IEEE SCC-22, IEC77A)
Voting member of SEMI Facilities Committee for semiconductor industry. Principal author and secretary of SEMI F47, voltage sag immunity testing standard, 2006 update.
Senior Member, IEEE. Active on IEEE 1159.x, 519.x working groups.
Former Chairman of 1159.1 (Power Quality Measurements). Voting member of SCC-22 (Standards Coordination, Power Quality Standards). Regularly provide peer review for
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Technical reviewer for papers proposed for a variety of conferences.
Founder of BMI, the leading power quality instrument manufacturer.
22 years on Board of Directors of WPT, parent company of Dranetz-BMI and Electrotek Concepts (no longer a Board member)
Peer-reviewed technical articles
McEachern, A., McGranaghan, M., Defining Grades of Power Quality, CEATI Report No. T034700-5118, November 2004
McEachern, A. Designing Equipment for World-Wide Power IEEE Industry Application Society meeting, Pittsburgh, October 2002
McEachern, A. Designing electronic devices to survive power quality events,
IEEE Ind Appl Magazine, 6(6):66-69 Nov-Dec 2000
(co-author) A survey of North American electric utility concerns regarding non-sinusoidal waveforms,
IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, 11(1):73-78 Jan 1996
(co-author) Practical definitions for powers in systems with nonsinusoidal waveforms and unbalanced loads,
IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, 11(1):79-101 Jan 1996
McEachern, A. et alRevenue and Harmonics - an evaluation of some proposed rate structures,
IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, 10(1):474-482 Jan 1995
(co-author) Effects of harmonics on equipment,
IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, 8(2):672-680 April 1993
McEachern, A. A floating-window algorithm for detecting certain power-line faults,
IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Measurement, 39(1):112-115 Feb 1990
McEachern, A. A system for capturing and presenting short duration voltage surges
on AC power-lines,
IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Measurement, 39(1):38-41 Feb 1990
Recent and pending publications
Power Quality Instrumentation - Standards, Pitfalls, and Shortcuts - Special Feature article, Spring 2003
NETA World (published by International Electrical Testing Association)
Power Quality Monitoring - Where Do We Go From Here? - cover story, August 2002, Power Quality Magazine
History of power quality monitoring - paper for tutorial at Summer IEEE meeting
Sag Generators - Not as simple as they seem, August 2001, Power Quality Magazine
With Bob Gilleskie, SDG&E - An End-use Equipment Approach to Improved
Power Quality Services, PQA 2001
With Bill Moncrief, EPRI - An Approach to Charging for Power System Harmonics, (Poland)
Encyclopedia of Electrical & Electronics Engineering (John Wiley & Sons): Chapter on "Electric Power Systems Measurement"
Amusing articles: Human Mechanical Resonances, Leonardo da Vinci's Power Factor Correction Capacitor, Early history of Electric Power, etc.. Click here: Fun Stuff
