Rue Who?

April 18, 2010

Street signs are in French in the French Quarter! That makes sense. We are finding our way pretty well with our trusty map. Yes, I forgot my Garmin and I'm back to the old school paper maps. Pronouncing the name is a trick. Their not in Spanish and my tongue can't wrap itself around those words - heck there are too many vowels (I'm glad I don't have to buy the vowels here).

One thing funny I have noticed is how many people ask where Rue such and such street is. Rue means street, so they are asking street X street. travel is educational and this proves it.

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Gene Wolf has been designing and building substations and other high technology facilities for over 32 years. He received his BSEE from Wichita State University. He received his MSEE from New Mexico State University. He is a registered professional engineer in the states of California and New Mexico. He started his career as a substation engineer for Kansas Gas and Electric, retired as the Principal Engineer of Stations for Public Service Company of New Mexico recently, and founded Lone Wolf Engineering, LLC an engineering consulting company.

Gene is widely recognized as a technical leader in the electric power industry. Gene is a fellow of the IEEE. He is the former Chairman of the IEEE PES T&D Committee. He has held the position of the Chairman of the HVDC & FACTS Subcommittee and membership in many T&D working groups. Gene is also active in renewable energy. He sponsored the formation of the “Integration of Renewable Energy into the Transmission & Distribution Grids” subcommittee and the “Intelligent Grid Transmission and Distribution” subcommittee within the Transmission and Distribution committee.