[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 15 (Thursday, January 24, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S584]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                TRIBUTE TO DR. EDMUND O. SCHWEITZER III

 Mr. CRAPO. Mr. President, along with my colleagues Senator 
James E. Risch, Representative Mike Simpson, and Representative Russ 
Fulcher, I congratulate Edmund O. Schweitzer III, Ph.D., on his 
induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
  The National Inventors Hall of Fame selected Dr. Schweitzer for this 
honor in recognition of him bringing ``the first microprocessor-based 
digital protective relay to market, revolutionizing the performance of 
electric power systems with computer-based protection and control 
equipment, and making a major impact in the electric power utility 
industry.'' Dr. Schweitzer has received many recognitions for his 
contributions to the development of digital protection and electric 
power systems worldwide. He is an Institute of Electrical and 
Electronics Engineers, IEEE, Fellow, who was honored with IEEE's Medal 
in Power Engineering in 2012. In 1982, he founded Schweitzer 
Engineering Laboratories, Inc., SEL, to develop and manufacture digital 
protective relays and related products and services.
  Characterizing Dr. Schweitzer as creative and inventive is an 
understatement. This month, he will receive his 200th patent pertaining 
to electric power system protection, metering, monitoring, and control. 
He turns his ideas into practical tools that meet the demands of our 
ever-changing and modernizing society. By protecting power grids, the 
technology he has developed and disseminated is helping to ensure that 
Americans and people around the world can access needed safe, more 
reliable, and more economical electric power to live and fuel growth.
  Congratulations, Dr. Schweitzer, on this recognition, and thank you 
for lending your talents, ideas and know-how to furthering our 
communities and Nation.

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