Howard W Penrose, Ph.D., CMRP, CEM, CMVP is president of the Veteran Owned Small Business, MotorDoc® LLC, the 2022-25 chair standards development American Clean Power (wind, solar, storage), past chair SMRP (2018), past chair Chicago Section IEEE (97-99), IEEE standards committee(s) active member since 1993, USA representative for CIGRE machine standards (A1 Electric Machines 2024-2028), NEMA rail electrification standards committee (2024+), and past Senior Research Engineer University of Chicago Energy Resources Center (1997-1999). He is a 5-time recipient of the UAW-GM People Make Quality Happen Award (04-09), leading researcher ESA/MCSA applications (1996+), design team GM hybrid Tahoe and Volt (2008-2010), John Deere 644 and 944 hybrid Construction Tractors (2010-2015), LVAD heart Pump, flywheel generators, high temp/low atmosphere electric machine design, and US Navy electric machine repair/rewind journeyman (NEC 4619/4621 - 1986). He served the SMRP (2015-2019, founder) and ACP (2020+) government affairs team for workforce, smart grid, cybersecurity, and infrastructure, amongst numerous other energy/environment/ workforce programs. He is a Certified Reliability and Maintenance Professional (SMRP, 2004+), a Certified Energy Manager (AEE - 2023), Certified Measurement and Verification Professional (AEE - 2024), life member MENSA, member vibration institute, PhD Industrial/General Engineering (Kennedy-Western University), and certified data science and machine learning Stanford University, University of Michigan, AWS and IBM.