Brent L. Carper, P.E.
Principal Engineer
Brent is a professional engineer with 26 years of experience in the electric power industry including technical and management positions at consulting firms and at Washington State’s largest utility. Brent has engineered a wide variety of protection and control projects at substations, switchyards, and power plants. In addition to traditional design engineering, Brent’s experience includes work in utility operations and engineering management. Brent teaches protective relaying at Washington State University, and has been an invited lecturer at the annual Hands-On Relay School every year since 2010.
Expertise
- Relay selection
- Panel layout design
- Protection and control schematic design
- Protective relay logic
- Relay-based automation
- NERC PRC compliance
- Emergency response and troubleshooting
- Event analysis and root-cause investigations
- Project management
Education & Licensure
- M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
- B.S. Mathematics, University of Alaska Anchorage
- Registered Professional Engineer: CA, KS, ME, OH, OR, SD, TX, WA
- Member IEEE and PES
Professional Experience
- Since 2017 Principal Engineer – 3AC Engineering, PC
- 2011-2017 Engineering Manager – Relay Application Innovation, Inc. (now ECI)
- 2003-2011 Supervising Engineer – Puget Sound Energy
- 1999-2003 Electrical Engineer – R. W. Beck, Inc. (now Leidos)
- 1997-1998 Quality Engineer – Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.
- 1996-1997 Production Manager – Brayden Automation Corp.
Outside of work, Brent enjoys travel and camping with his family, and cheering on WSU athletics (Go Cougs!). His current life goal is to get his children’s LEGO bricks confined to a single room of the house.
Martin H. Moon, P.E.
Principal Engineer
Martin is a professional engineer with 31 years of experience in the electric power industry including positions at Sierra Pacific Power (now NV Energy) and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL). Martin specializes in protection and control and has worked on transmission, distribution, renewable generation, substation, and switchyard projects. In addition to protection and control, Martin’s experience also includes field application support, medium voltage switchgear manufacturing, and substation design.
Expertise
- Relay scheme design
- Fault and coordination studies
- Digital relay programming
- Development of custom relay-based protective and automation logic
- Emergency response and troubleshooting
- Event analysis and root-cause investigations
- NERC PRC compliance
- Utility and independent power producer interconnects
Education & Licensure
- B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Nevada Reno
- B.A. Physics, Grinnell College
- Registered Professional Engineer: CA, KS, ME, NY, OK, TX, WA
- Member IEEE and PES
Professional Experience
- Since 2017 Principal Engineer – 3AC Engineering, PC
- 2005-2017 Lead Protection Engineer – Relay Application Innovation, Inc. (now ECI)
- 1998-2005 Field Application Engineer – Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)
- 1996-1998 MV Requisition Engineer – General Electric
- 1991-1996 Engineer – Sierra Pacific Power Company (now NV Energy)
Martin lives in Boerne, Texas, with his wife and two children. He enjoys traveling and water-related activities with his family.
