For more than 70 years, employees from electric utilities across the nation have met at the one-week Southwest Electrical Metering Association (SWEMA) Texas Meter School to study the latest technologies in metering. The SWEMA Texas Meter School has a world of expertise behind its development and direction.

A committee comprised of utilities and manufacturers/suppliers, in cooperation with SWEMA, works with the Infrastructure Training & Safety Institute (ITSI), Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) of The Texas A&M University System to create and manage the annual school. These groups continually monitor the school, making improvements to make it the best conference of its kind. Quality instructors are selected from TEEX and from manufacturing and electric utility organizations. Each fall, the school is conducted in Bryan, near the Texas A&M University campus, home of the Bush Presidential Library.

The next SWEMA Texas Meter School will be held Oct. 25 - 29, 2010 at the Texas A&M University Riverside Campus, Building 6030 (3100 State Hwy 47, Bryan, TX 77807).

Registration

Pre-registration is recommended.

You can REGISTER ONLINE, or you can download, fill out, and send in (fax or email) the STUDENT REGISTRATION FORM.

The registration fee includes school registration; mid-session refreshments; lunch on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; one course notebook; and a certificate of completion for students with 100% attendance.

Courses 1, 2, and 3: Registration fee is $235.

Courses 4 and 5 Registration fee is $260.

Registration Forms

• Student Registration Form



• Exhibitor Registration Form
  

Courses

Course 1: Introduction to Electrical Metering - This course is designed to provide essential basic training to individuals entering the electrical metering field. The emphasis on this course is on single-phase applications.

• Electric Power Systems and Basic Meter Math
• Energy / Power Concepts
• Load Characteristics and Lab
• Power Triangle and Vector Concepts
• Basic Transformer Theory
• Meter Theory
• Meter Component Analysis
• Basics of Meter Safety and Arcing Demo
• Meter Forms and Applications
• Meter Testing Concepts
• Introduction to AMR Systems
• Handling Customers with Care

Course 2: Advanced Electrical Metering - This course is designed to provide essential training to experienced meter technicians. The emphasis of this course is on the poly-phase and advanced metering applications.

• Review of Electrical Power Concepts
• Distribution Transformer Theory and Metering Applications
• 4W, 3P Wye Theory and Metering Applications
• 4W, 3P Delta Theory and Metering Applications
• Instrument Transformer Theory, Testing and Metering Applications
• 3W, 1P and 3P Theory and Metering Applications
• Handling Customers with Care

Course 3: Complex Electrical Metering Technology - This course is designed to provide the experienced technician with the latest technological changes and improvements in the metering field.

• SCADA Principles
• In-Service Testing of Instrument Transformers
• Reference Standards Traceability
• Transformer Loss Compensation
• KYZ Metering
• States Reactions to the U.S. Energy Bill Impacts
• What You Didn't Know About VAR Metering
• The Ins and Outs of VAR Flows
• Billing vs. Metering Accuracy
• Field Testing of Solid State Meters and Devices
• Integrated Communications
• ANSI Standards
• Troubleshooting AMR Devices
• Handling Customers with Care

Course 4: National Generation / Transmission Metering - This course is designed to provide advanced technicians/metering personnel with the enhanced skills and knowledge that will strengthen their ability to apply the latest technological changes and improvements in the field of advanced and high voltage metering used in the transmission and generation environments.

• Understanding Reactive Meter Measurement
• Effects of Power Quality on Metering
• Field Testing Facilities and Solid-State Meters and Devices
• Types of Communications in a Transmission Substation
• Advanced Communications (DNP, MODBUS, TCP-IP, etc.)
• Instrument Transformers
• Gross and Net Generation Metering
• Advanced Transformer and Line Loss Compensation Theory
• Understanding One- and Three-Line Metering Schematics
• Advanced SCADA Principles and SCADA Technology
• Discussion of Deregulated Markets
• Engineering Design for Ring Buss and Breaker-and-a-Half Meter Schemes
• Metering Verification for Ring Buss and Breaker-and-a-Half Metering
• Safety for High Voltage Substations and Control Rooms

Course 5: Diversified Electrical Metering Technology - This course is designed to provide experienced metering personnel an opportunity to select the training topics to meet their individual training needs. Select training topics from Courses 1, 2, 3, and 4.

NOTE: This course is limited to the first 12 people to register.

Exhibitor Information

Download, fill out, and send in (email or fax) the Exhibitor Registration Form. You can also call us at 800.723.3811 or email us at itsi@teexmail.tamu.edu to request an exhibitor registration form.

Check-in and set-up for exhibitors begins at 2:30PM, Mon., Oct. 25, 2010. Specific hours are allotted on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday to visit exhibits. Wednesday after the 11:30AM - 12:30pm lunch, time will be allocated for mangers to visit vendors exhibits from 12:30PM . - 2:00PM. However, vendors are welcome to stay through Thursday, as students will still visit during lunch and breaks. You will be charged for each exhibit space ($65 per table) plus individual representative registration fees of $75.00 each.

Agenda

• 10:30AM Registration and check-in
• 1:00PM General opening session
• 2:30PM Exhibitor check-in and table selection available
• 1:00PM - 5:00PM Course sessions

• 8:00AM - 12:00PM Exhibitor check-in and table selection
• 8:00AM - 5:00PM Course sessions
• 1:00PM Manufacturer exhibits open

• 8:00AM - 5:00PM Course sessions
• 8:00AM Manufacturer exhibits open
• 11:30AM - 12:30PM Business lunch for managers, vendor reps, and SWEMA committee
• 12:30PM - 2:00PM Managers visit vendor exhibits

• 8:00AM - 5:00PM Course sessions

• 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Sessions
• 10:00 AM Exam
• 12:00 PM Adjourn

2009 Exhibitors

Representatives from manufacturers and suppliers across the nation will exhibit equipment and products Tuesday and Wednesday. These exhibits give participants a chance to view state-of-the-art equipment, find out about current services and products applicable to metering, and network with industry colleagues.

2010 Planning Committee

Links

• Southwest Electrical Metering Association

For more information, call 800-SAFE-811 (800-723-3811)
or email itsi@teexmail.tamu.edu

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