The scope of the Power & Energy Society embraces research, development, planning, design, construction, maintenance, installation and operation of equipment, structures, materials and power systems for the safe, sustainable, economic and reliable conversion, generation, transmission, distribution, storage and usage of electric energy, including its measurement and control. The PES Chapters provide an outstanding opportunity to learn, network and tap into the wealth of knowledge available in the Power & Energy
Society, as well as offer a great opportunity to increase member engagement. The Chapters’ strategy is:  

• Better promotion of our profession through PES - to be visible in communities outside engineering, attract more students to engineering, and more engineers to power engineering
• Better recognition of deserving PES professionals - review current processes to reach out to all levels of power/energy engineers when selecting our awards, improve the visibility of the awards system, make them more prestigious and better recognized
• Promote our profession locally by promoting PES experts from the local universities and industry
• Improve our communication with the members
• Recognize long term PES members

 One of the duties of the Vice President for Chapters is to promote PES chapters’ activities in order to provide a good service to the members and attract potential members. The greatest work that we can undertake, as the most experienced PES volunteers, is to MENTOR and mould the new PES leaders. With a renewed focus signaling a new era for the power industry, it is time to pass the flame onto the next generation of leaders who, with our invaluable guidance and mentorship, will be able to provide leadership and contribute with new ideas to improve our activities. We have a significant number of energetic, yet inexperienced younger members that need to be engaged in PES and in IEEE, and offered an opportunity that will challenge them.

Biography:
Meliha B. Selak  is a Specialist Engineer with BC Hydro & Power Authority, Protection & Control Planning Department.  As an electrical engineering graduate of Sarajevo University, she joined Energoinvest Corporation in Sarajevo in 1975. Prior to joining BC Hydro in 2000, she worked in the Power System Group at the University of British Columbia.
Her technical activities include power system protection and control applications, power system analysis, evaluations and interconnection studies, as well as development of protection guidelines. Meliha has written numerous technical reports and papers. She is also a paper reviewer and technical committee member of a few international conferences.
She is a registered professional engineer in the Province of British Columbia. Meliha is a distinguished lecturer of IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP).