Saul Goldberg   1/2003

Saul Goldberg has been in the Electrical Engineering Department at Cal Poly since 1970. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. In addition, he held a joint appointment in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach.

He served as Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department for a 3-year term from 1992 - 1995. Dr. Goldberg is very active professionally and has conducted research in the area of electric power systems. He has published more than 40 papers in various technical journals and has presented many of them at national and international conferences. Topics have included electric system distribution reliability, component failure rates, power system simulation and electromagnetic fields. He published a book titled Power Frequency Magnetic Fields and Public Health, CRC Press, 1995. He recently completed a textbook titled Power Conversion Using the Virtual Power Laboratory, VPLab. The book was written cooperatively with William F. Horton and Tom A. Agayoff.

During the past 30 years he has been very active as a consultant in the field of Electric Power Engineering and for the past 20 years he has been a partner in Power Systems Consultants - a consulting company specializing in Electric Power Engineering. The company has been in business since 1981 and has had major contracts with Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, California Public Utility Commission, San Diego Gas and Electric and the United States Department of Justice. Whenever possible Power Systems Consultants has employed Cal Poly faculty and students. This gives our students and faculty the opportunity to work on real-world projects and gain valuable practical experience using state of the art techniques.

Dr. Goldberg has over 15 years of administrative experience as Director of the Cal Poly Electric Power Institute that he co-founded with Bill Horton in 1972. During those years he spent a great deal of time representing Cal Poly to various industries and was instrumental in raising money for various programs at Cal Poly. During his tenure as Director, the Institute sponsored monthly technical seminars and more than 20 workshops and short courses. The Institute was formed to strengthen the Electric Power Program at Cal Poly and provide an interface between the University and Industry.

Dr. Goldberg retired from full-time teaching on January 1, 2000 and no longer teaches courses at Cal Poly. .