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The August issue of PCB007 magazine features an interview with SEL Founder Dr. Ed Schweitzer as it's cover story.

Inventing the future: An interview with Dr. Ed Schweitzer

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SEL founder speaks out against tariff, in favor of free trade

Tariffs are harming manufacturing. Congress must act now

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SEL recently launched a new website navigation menu and over 30 new webpages to make it easier and more intuitive for visitors across a wide range of industries and geographies to find the products, services, and solutions they’re looking for. 

SEL Website Improves Navigation With New Sections for Products, Industries, and Services

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SEL enhances the performance and digital input capacity of the SEL-2240 Axion

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SEL production employees awarded patents.

How two SEL employees turned a simple fix into a patented solution

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How SEL patents honor inventor while protecting IP

Pursuing patents a regular routine for SEL

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SEL Index of Freedom Highlights Top States for Business and Trade

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A joint op-ed on the importance of free trade.

Rep. Dan Newhouse and Dr. Ed Schweitzer: It’s Vital to WA That Congress Reassert Control Over Trade

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SEL has awarded 15 scholarships, each valued at $5,000, to exceptional students pursuing degrees in engineering and applied technology.

SEL Announces 2025-2026 Scholarship Recipients

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SEL Receives Purdue Senior Design Partner of the Year Award

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Three SEL engineers have been recognized by their peers in power industry organizations, including CIGRE and the IEEE. 

SEL Technical Experts Recognized for Contributions to Industry

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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories raised its starting hourly wage for U.S. employees to $20 per hour on April 1.

SEL Raises Starting Hourly Wage to $20

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SEL develops a land mobile radio solution that protects first responders

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SEL announces the release of the LINAM UGFI Underground Fault Indicator, a rugged, submersible device designed for use in underground vaults and pad-mounted enclosures.

SEL Introduces the LINAM UGFI Underground Fault Indicator

Rep. Michael Baumgartner and Edmund O. Schweitzer: Tariffs are taxes

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SEL Founder Dr. Ed Schweitzer writes letter to customers and suppliers in reaction to tariffs.

An Open Letter to Our Neighbors in Canada and Mexico...

Tariffs Sink All Boats

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The hand-held tool aims to expedite the diagnostic process, reduce the associated stress, and ultimately improve outcomes for children with autism.

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories to Produce Medical Device for Autism Detection

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This week, at an SEL Board of Directors meeting, President Ed Schweitzer asked CEO Dave Whitehead to assume the role of President, and Chief Business and Financial Officer Nestegard the role of Executive Vice President.

SEL Begins Its 41st Year with Leadership Changes

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SEL announces new vice president of Human Resources

SEL Names New VP of Human Resources

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SEL partners with IEEE PES to facilitate the involvement of SEL associates and corporate leaders in the IEEE PES activities to support PES membership and programs.

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories and IEEE Power & Energy Society Corporate Engagement Partnership

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SEL partners with Potlatch Elementary to host a day-long Hour of Code event.

Helping Kids Through Hands-On Learning

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SEL has been named one of America's Dream Employers by Forbes. 

SEL Recognized as a Dream Employer

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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories is the 14th largest 100 percent employee-owned company in America according to the 2024 Employee Ownership 100 ranking just released by the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO).

SEL Ranks 14th Largest 100 Percent Employee-Owned Company in America

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SEL awarded for its work to improve healthcare transparency.

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Honored for Improving Healthcare Price Transparency

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SEL Chief Business and Financial Officer Elected Chair of Employee Ownership Commission

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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Accelerates Hiring

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Thales has joined forces with SEL, a global leader in power system protection, automation and control solutions, to protect the next generation of their technologies.

Thales and SEL Unite to Safeguard UK's Energy Future with Landmark Smart Grid Laboratory

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Releases 2024 Index of Freedom

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The IT World Today and the Enemies of Complexity and Opacity

Rutgers study finds that multinational ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan)-owned companies appear to derive competitive advantages in international markets from being employee-owned. 

Rutgers Study Shows the Effects of Employee Ownership Can Transcend Borders

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SEL promotes five long-time employees to VP positions

SEL Promotes Five Employees to Vice President

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SEL awards $5,000 scholarships to 14 outstanding students working to earn degrees in engineering

SEL Scholarship Program Awards 14 Scholarships for 2024–2025 Academic Year

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SEL has introduced the SEL-TWFL Dual Traveling-Wave Fault Locator and 12-Channel MHz Recorder, a standalone device that provides accurate fault locating, line monitoring and high-resolution event recording.

Introducing the SEL-TWFL Dual Traveling-Wave Fault Locator and 12-Channel MHz Recorder

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Tom Foley is “one of the finest citizens our state ever produced” and a “quintessential American patriot.” Those are just a few words Gen. James Mattis, another fine citizen our state produced, used to describe the legendary former speaker of the House last week in Spokane while receiving the first-ever Thomas S. Foley Award for Distinguished Public Service.

Edmund and Beatriz Schweitzer: Mattis an Excellent Choice for First Foley Award

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SEL Chief Sales & Customer Service Officer David Costello will retire after 28 years with the company.

David Costello Retires From Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories

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SEL has introduced the SEL-787L Line Current Differential Relay, which delivers economical, fast, secure and dependable line current differential protection for distribution and industrial applications.

Introducing the SEL-787L Line Current Differential Relay

SEL CFO appointed by Governor Jay Inslee to serve on the Washington Employee Ownership Commission.

SEL Chief Business and Financial Officer Appointed to Washington Employee Ownership Commission

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SEL recently introduced several enhancements to Fault Location, Isolation, and Service Restoration (FLISR) on the SEL Blueframe application platform.

New to FLISR—Automatic Configuration Using GIS Data

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SEL Senior Director of Health and Wellbeing Michele Beehler testifies before Congress at a U. S. House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions hearing in Washington DC. 

SEL Healthcare Leader Testifies at Congressional Hearing

In December, the House passed legislation (H.R. 5378) that includes provisions bolstering legal requirements that health-care providers and insurers disclose information about health-care costs. Similar bipartisan legislation (S. 3548) has been introduced in the Senate, but no action has yet been taken.

Employers Push Against Insurers Blocking Access to Health Data

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SEL engineers visit Potlatch Elementary to teach kids grades 1-6 how to code.

An Hour of Code—and Then Some

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SEL President Ed Schweitzer Testifies Before Congressional Committee

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SEL Vice President of Research & Development Normann Fischer has been named part of the 2024 Class of IEEE Fellows. 

Normann Fischer Elevated to IEEE Fellow

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SEL has expanded its networking portfolio with the new SEL-2731 Ethernet Switch.

New Ethernet Switch Expands on Predecessor Capabilities

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SEL wins Idaho Business Review 2023 Top Project of the Year award

SEL Receives 2023 Top Project of the Year Award for PCB Factory

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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, a global leader in products and solutions that protect and control electric power systems, is the 15th largest 100 percent employee-owned company in the United States, according to the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO). 

SEL Ranks 15th on List of Largest Employee-Owned Companies in America

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Dr. Ed Schweitzer's keynote address at 2023 WPRC

The Early Days of WPRC

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Join us for a webinar on October 25, 2023, to learn about the benefits of GIS integration, two new Blueframe apps that enable GIS functionality, and more. 

Webinar: The Next Evolution in FLISR Simplicity—Automatic Configuration With GIS Data

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SEL Names New Chief Technology Officer

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Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer, III, founder, president and chief technology officer of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, delivered a keynote at the WSU Power Professorship Program 50th Anniversary Celebration on September 15, 2023, in Pullman.

Dr. Ed Schweitzer Delivers Keynote at WSU Power Professorship Program 50th Anniversary Celebration

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One Energy Enterprises all digital substation incorporates the Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories TiDL system, as well as Hitachi Energy’s 30 MVA transformer and high-voltage circuit breakers.

One Energy Enterprises’ Digital Substation in Findlay, Ohio, Energized and Operational

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SEL and SDG&E recently released an article and video describing how they collaborated to develop and implement a software tool that enhances real-time grid operations.

Software Advances Grid Operations at SDG&E

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On October 4, 2023, join us for a webinar about our next-generation solution for automated data collection: the Data Management and Automation (DMA) application suite on the SEL Blueframe application platform.

Webinar: Streamline Data Collection and Fleet Management With DMA on Blueframe

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Edmund O. Schweitzer III, president and chief technology officer of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, opposes the recent directive from Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson preventing Puget Sound Energy (PSE) from disclosing the reason for the new utility rate increase on customers’ bills.

SEL President Opposes Concealment of Cap-and-Trade Tax for Utility Customers

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Join us for a live webinar on September 6, 2023, to learn about the advanced DFR and substation monitoring solutions that SEL offers. We’ll also share recent DFR innovations, including continuous oscillography streaming and recording, simplified configuration, advanced asset monitoring and digital signal processing capabilities, and more.  

Webinar: Innovating DFR Solutions—Continuous Oscillography, Asset Monitoring, and More

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With one of its key components—printed circuit boards—in short supply, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories chose the proactive solution: it would begin making them itself. 

A Homegrown Solution: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Makes Printed Circuit Boards

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Join us in this live webinar on July 26, 2023, to learn about high-impedance bus differential protection solutions and the benefits of the SEL-787Z High-Impedance Differential Relay and SEL-HZM High-Impedance Module. This two-box solution offers a full suite of communications protocols to support integration into an existing network as well as operational and mounting flexibility for applications replacing existing devices.

Webinar: Introducing the SEL-787Z High-Impedance Differential Relay—Features and Settings

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SEL Names New VP of Marketing

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SEL unveils printed circuit board factory in Moscow

SEL Unveils New Printed Circuit Board Factory

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Solving Line Protection Challenges with Transient-based Relays


Solving Line Protection Challenges with Transient-Based Relays

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Solving Line Protection Challenges With Transient-Based Relays

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Edmund Schweitzer’s microprocessor-based device made power grids safer and more reliable

The Relay That Changed the Power Industry

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Direct-replacement assemblies (DRAs) are complete, preassembled retrofit kits. Join us in this live webinar on June 14, 2023, for an overview of DRAs and the benefits they offer for protection retrofit projects at any scale, including how they save time, save money, and simplify relay installation.

Webinar: The Fastest and Easiest Way to Modernize Legacy Relays

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SEL recently released a 3U form factor for the versatile and rugged SEL-3350 computing platform.

SEL-3350 3U joins the SEL automation family

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EMS Now highlights the SEL decision to build its own PCB operation, the opportunities this new capability provides, and the lessons learned so far.

EMS Now: Interview With Jessi Hall and John Hendrickson on Vertical Integration of PCB Fabrication

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Join us in this live webinar on May 10, 2023, to learn how the SEL Real-Time Automation Controller (RTAC) platform and its Grid Connect library are applied to provide the visualization, local control, and protocol conversion needed to manage DERs.

Webinar: Managing DERs With RTAC Grid Connect

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New wildfire mitigation solution cuts power to broken electric lines before they hit the ground

New Wildfire Mitigation Solution Cuts Power to Broken Electric Lines Before They Hit the Ground

Dr. Ed Schweitzer talks about free enterprise and growth at local luncheon

Dr. Ed Schweitzer Talks About Free Enterprise and Growth at Local Chamber Meeting

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SEL Senior Director of Vertical Integration Jessi Hall was named a 2023 Women MAKE Awards

SEL Senior Director of Vertical Integration Honored by National Association of Manufacturers

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SEL will officially begin fabricating printed circuit boards in its new, state-of-the-art facility in Moscow, Idaho, next week.

Production Begins at the $100M SEL Printed Circuit Board Facility

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SEL recently expanded its operational technology (OT) software-defined networking (SDN) switch portfolio with the introduction of the SEL-2741, a premium OT SDN Ethernet switch.

New OT SDN Switch Increases Speed, Port Count

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The SEL-2664S Stator Ground Protection Relay is a robust option for generator stator ground protection. The relay uses neutral-overvoltage-based protection and multisine frequency injection to protect 100 percent of the stator winding, even when the generator is at a standstill.

Secure and Reliable Stator Ground Protection, 100 Percent of the Time

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Process bus communications systems must maintain high availability for analog-to-digital data streams and control signals from protective relays. A webinar on February 22, 2023, will discuss recent innovations in IEC 61850-compliant digital secondary system devices that allow increased availability and reliability in process bus applications.

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