Eric Udren ([email protected]), Executive Advisor, Advisory Services, Quanta Technology, LLC, has over 50 years of experience leading the design and application of protective relaying systems, substation control, wide-area monitoring and control systems, phasor measurement unit (PMU) applications, and communications systems. Eric is an IEEE Life Fellow, holds 12 U.S. patents, and is the author of over 90 papers and book chapters, including Westinghouse’s Applied Protective Relaying. Eric was the Industry Guru of PAC World Magazine in September 2016. He was elected as a 2019 member of the National Academy of Engineering “for leadership in advancing protection technologies for electric power grids.” Eric earned an MS in Electrical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, a Certificate of Post-Graduate Study from Cambridge University, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University.