Motors and Drives
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Kevin Grace RECOGNITION Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) ACCOMPLISHMENTS Kevin Grace began his career with Advanced Energy in 2006 as a co-op student working with the Motors and Drives team. In 2008 he began working with the organization full-time as lab operations and lab quality manager. As lab operations manager, Grace is responsible for developing and coordinating test plans for motors, running tests and writing reports on collected data. As lab quality manager he ensures motor testing accuracy, precision and repeatability. Grace also trains co-op students to work in the lab, and is a member of the safety committee. As lab quality manager, he ensures motor testing accuracy, precision and repeatability. He maintains correspondence with the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) that conducts biannual quality audits of Advanced Energy’s motors and drives lab. Grace also trains co-op students and interns who work in the motor lab, and is a member of the company’s safety committee. MY PHILOSOPHY ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY Improving energy efficiency is an enormous part of the solution to our country’s energy issues. If we can improve the efficiency of major energy users like motor driven systems even by small amounts, it will have a profound effect on our lives both economically and environmentally. I’m proud to contribute to the work we do in and out of the motor lab that is dedicated to improving energy efficiency of existing motors and drives as well as validating new ones. EDUCATION Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University CONTACT INFORMATION kgrace@advancedenergy.org |