Women in Power

Jill S. Tietjen is the President and CEO of Technically Speaking, Inc. An electrical engineer, she has spent more than 45 years in the electric utility industry where she provided planning consulting services to electric utilities and organizations comprising the electric utility industry and served as an expert witness before public utility commissions and other government agencies. In 2015, she served as the CEO of the National Women's Hall of Fame, based in Seneca Falls, New York (the birthplace of women's rights). Today, she is a worldwide advocate for telling women's stories and writing women into history. An author and international speaker, Tietjen is the co-author of the award-winning and bestselling books Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America and Hollywood: Her Story, An Illustrated History of Women and the Movies. Her introduction to engineering textbook, Keys to Engineering Success, was published by Prentice Hall in 2001. Her ebook for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Women in Engineering series titled Recognizing and Taking Advantage of Opportunities was published in 2016. She is the series editor for Springer's Women in Engineering and Science series and wrote the inaugural volume (published in 2016), Engineering Women: Re-visioning Women's Scientific Achievements and Impacts. She has since written a second volume in the series, Scientific Women: Re-visioning Women's Scientific Achievements and Impacts (published in 2020). She blogged for The Huffington Post from 2014-2018. Her award-winning book Over, Under, Around, and Through: How Hall of Famers Surmount Obstacles was published in 2022. Tietjen graduated from the University of Virginia (Tau Beta Pi, Virginia Alpha) with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics (minor in Electrical Engineering) and received her M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina - Charlotte. She is a registered professional engineer in Colorado.
Marija D Ilic, is a Professor Emerita at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). She currently holds a  joint appointment of an Adjunct Professor in EECS Department and  of a Senior Research Scientist at the  Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS)  at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is an IEEE Life Fellow and an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and the Academia Europaea.  She was the first recipient of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award for Power Systems in the US.  She has co-authored several books on the subject of large-scale electric power systems, and has co-organized an annual multidisciplinary Electricity Industry conference series at Carnegie Mellon with participants from academia, government, and industry.  She was the founder and co-director of the Electric Energy Systems Group (EESG) at Carnegie Mellon University.  Currently she is building EESG@MIT, in the same spirit as EESG@CMU. Most recently she has offered an open EdX course at MIT entitled ``Principles of Modeling, Simulations and Control in Electric Energy Systems". She is founder and chief scientist at New Electricity Transmission Solutions (NETSS), Inc, currently SmartGridz, Inc.
Lina Bertling Tjernberg is a Professor in Power Grid Technology at KTH the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. She was previously Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, 2009-2013, and with the National grid 2007-2009. She completed her Ph.D. in Electric Power Systems at KTH in 2002. She is the Director of the KTH Energy platform, which coordinates and supports new research initiatives within the energy areas across KTH. She is a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) since 2022. She received the 2021 Power Woman of the Year award for her work as a "strong force and guarantor of more equal skills provision in today's and future sustainable energy systems". Her

Those Electrifying Women.- Attracting, Training, and Retaining a Skilled, Diverse Energy Workforce in the U.S..- Electricity Regulation in the U.S..- Algorithms for Energy Justice.- Reliability Centered Asset Management with models for maintenance optimization and predictive maintenance - including case studies for wind turbines.- Security of electricity supply in the future intelligent and integrated power system.- Preparing the Power Grid for Extreme Weather Events: Resilience Modeling and Optimization.- Power Systems Operation and Control: Contributions at the Liège group, 1970-2000.- Reinforcement Learning for Decision-Making and Control in Power Systems.- System Protection.- Interaction Variables-based Modeling and Control of Energy Dynamics.- Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research in Smart Grid.- Substation Automation.- Electric Power Distribution Systems: Time-Window Selection and Feasible Control Sequence Methods for Advanced Distribution Automation.- Intelligent and self-sufficient control for time controllable consumers in low voltage grids.- Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Control for Electrical Drives and Power Converters.- Self-Healing Shipboard Power Systems.