Executive Committee

Vision: 
The Smart Education Foundation promotes the understanding and application of the smart grid, sustainable design and renewable technology.  To promote this vision, the SEF created the SMART Competition.
 
Research by the founding members of the Smart Education Foundation (SEF) identified a significant lack of organized competitions, programs and events that specifically focus on developing and promoting an understanding of the power grid, power generation, load balancing and security requirements for the grid. 
 
The SMART Competition seeks to help satisfy the need for such programs.
 
The Competition challenges the participants to apply their research and knowledge to the redesign of an existing campus building.  (All teams are given the same building to work with and change.) This redesign should optimize power utilization, reflect environmentally responsible techniques and offer realistic solutions to a common engineering challenge.
 
The founding members established a vision and purpose for the organization and developed activities for the Smart Education Foundation.  The current committee members continue to develop plans and executing tasks that support and advance that vision.
 
Members of the founding board and many of the SEF volunteers have extensive technology leadership and STEM program experience.
 
The officers of the Foundation are:
Michael Andrews – Andrews & Associates, Managing Partner,  Foundation President
Mark Schneider – Bentley Systems, Geospatial Technical Manager for North American,  Foundation Director
Myrna Johnson – Systems Consultant, Foundation Director
 
The SMART Competition Design Team members include:
Lisa Freed, iRobot
Carol Rieg, Bentley Systems
Jean Eason 
Ron Smith
Fran Rabuck, Consultant
Bill McNamara, Bentley Systems
Jeff Nolan, Bentley Systems
Lee Stogner, Vincula Group
Tim Kostyk, Arizona State University
 
 
For additional information, contact Michael Andrews, m.andrews@ieee.org