The Engineers' Extra
The Raleigh Engineers Club (REC) has been in existence since 1926. The club seeks to promote the Engineering field through monthly technical meetings and support of those pursuing a future in the Engineering discipline. We award an annual scholarship to a Raleigh area graduating high school senior to enter the school of engineering at NC State. Our members have a diverse background of engineering disciplines and represent several companies and government agencies located in the Raleigh area.
The Raleigh Engineers Club
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Annual membership is only $35. Our goal is to provide interesting and technically-oriented programs to its members, offer licensed members an opportunity for continuing education credits, and award a semester of tuition to a deserving, graduating Raleigh area high school senior choosing engineering as a career at NC State. Membership is available to anyone working in support of the engineering profession. You do not have to be an engineer. Download an application here and email the completed application to secretary@raleighengineersclub.org. We'll get you on the mailing list right away!
The Raleigh Engineers Club has monthly lunch meetings that cover engineering topics of interest to all types of engineers and people interested in engineering activities regardless of discipline. The Raleigh Engineers Club is a NC Board of Registration for Engineers Certified provider of professional development hours (PDH credits) for licensed engineers. Eleven meetings are held annually with one set aside for scholarship awards and updates on successes of engineering graduates from NCSU. So ten professional development hours are provided each year. Note that you do not need to be a licensed engineer or a graduate engineer to be a member! View our Constitution and Bylaws !
George Sharpe, PE
2025 Club President
PROGRAM
August 18, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Grid Enhancing Technologies
with
John Gajda, PE
Professor, NC State University
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.
Announcements
- Scholarship Donations - Each year we offer one scholarship for one semester of NCSU tuition paid to one Wake County high school graduate who is entering their Freshman year at NCSU and have been accepted into the College of Engineering. The success of our scholarship depends on your donations. If you would like to donate, you can do so through our Eventbrite or on any meeting event or anytime on our 2025 Raleigh Engineers Club Membership Dues Event.
- 2025 Membership Dues - You can pay for your 2025 dues on line today. The promo code for free webinars is included in your confirmation email of your paid dues. Click on this link to pay now if you are not already registering for this webinar.
- The Raleigh Engineers Club is continuing to offer free webinars to their members. The non-member webinar fee is $10 + taxes and fees.
John Gajda will discuss "Grid Enhancing Technologies," a term that generally refers to several different approaches that allow electric power transmission lines to carry more current than a given line design may have been rated for in the recent past. John will discuss things like advanced conductors, dynamic line ratings, and other approaches, and some of the engineering tradeoffs involved. John will also discuss related federal and state policies that encourage the use of these technologies."
John W. Gajda, P.E. is a Professor of the Practice at North Carolina State University in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He teaches power systems courses in the Master of Science in Electric Power Systems Engineering program (https://ece.ncsu.edu/grad/masters/epse/). Before joining the ECE faculty in 2024, he worked across the energy & electric utility industry for over 30 years, and was an adjunct lecturer in the ECE department for more than 10 years. His roles have spanned industry, regulatory agencies, cooperative utilities, investor-owned utilities, consulting, solar power, federal government, and academia.
John's areas of expertise are distribution system protection, generator interconnections, protective relay and inverter-based resource settings management, and distribution and transmission regulatory policy. He has served on IEEE working groups related to generator interconnections, has testified multiple times before the North Carolina Utilities Commission, and has submitted an affidavit before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. John has developed and written multiple utility internal design standards and manuals. He is a licensed professional engineer in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Texas, and is a Senior Member of IEEE.
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