Attendance at this event is restricted to undergraduate students enrolled in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department. 

John Budd is a principal engineer at Pepco Holdings an Exelon company. Prior to his time at Exelon, he worked at PSE&G and Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey as an electrical engineer in fields of power engineering and embedded system design. John studied his undergraduate at the New Jersey Institute of Technology where he obtained his Bachelors of Science Electrical Engineering degree with specialization in control and power systems with a minor in applied mathematics. His master’s degree in electrical engineering was obtained at Drexel university in 2016 with specialization in electrical power systems. John has worked in the electrical utility industry for over a decade planning transmission and distribution capital projects to expand and upgrade the electrical grid across several states. Additionally he has experience deploying fault location, isolation, and service restoration (FLISR) distribution automation systems at the PHI Exelon utilities, conservation voltage reduction programs, and substation, transmission and distribution relay control systems. During his career in the electrical utility industry he has been in several roles including transmission planning, distribution planning, system protection and control, distribution automation engineering, interconnection engineering and most recently has taken up a role in the PHI distributed energy resources (DER) engineering group as the interconnection standard’s engineer. In his current role, in addition to developing and ensuring compliance of Pepco Holding’s interconnection standards, he develops and provides trainings for engineers, performs distributed energy resource interconnection analysis, lead efforts at Exelon around interconnection process development, supports state regulatory interconnection working groups to increase DER penetration and advises R&D largely with national laboratories like the electrical research power institute for DER grid integration.

This spring semester in 2025 John plans on taking an adjunct teaching role at the university of Delaware to teach an electrical power system course for both undergraduate and graduate students. This course will cover the fundamentals of power system analysis and will be split into four parts: electrical modeling of power system equipment, the power flow problem, system fault analysis and an introduction to power system protection and control. This course establishes the fundamental power engineering analysis concepts that will build student’s engineering intuition, judgement, teach students the underlying theory of power system software capabilities widely used in industry and provide the foundation for student’s to pursue a career in the growing electrical power industry in technical consulting, contractor engineering, the utility, renewables, and much more!

Please come out for a great discussion and lunch!

• 12:30 - Lunch is served
• 12:45 - Speaker