MONROEVILLE, Pa., July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Kathryn Jackson has been
appointed to the position of vice president, Strategy, Research and
Technology at Westinghouse Electric Company. Dr. Jackson was previously the
executive vice president of River System Operations and Environment at
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), where she has served since 1998.
"Dr. Jackson's extensive work in the energy industry, coupled with her
hands-on experience in technology strategy, will prove very beneficial to
Westinghouse as we continue to develop innovative products and services for
our customers," said Dr. Regis Matzie, senior vice president and chief
technology officer at Westinghouse.
Corporate research and technology development was among her major
responsibilities during her tenure at TVA. As the unit's leader, Dr.
Jackson managed the development and infusion of new technologies to improve
performance power generation, transmission and distribution systems. She
also negotiated multimillion-dollar contracts -- in service, R&D and
engineering -- with various government agencies and corporations.
Dr. Jackson's TVA career began in 1991 when she was hired as project
engineer, Nuclear Power, in the Generating Group. Two years later she was
named vice president, Technology Advancements. Among her accomplishments in
that role: developing and implementing a methodology to identify research
and technology development projects that aligned with TVA's long-term
corporate strategy and its customers' priorities. In 1994, she was named
senior vice president of TVA's Resource Group, and later became its
executive vice president.
Dr. Jackson began her professional career in 1980 at Westinghouse
Electric Corp.'s Nuclear Technology Division, where she served four years
as a marketing project engineer and design engineer. She then went to
Alcoa, working as a technology forecaster at the company's Corporate
Research and Development Center.
Prior to joining TVA, Dr. Jackson spent two years as a postdoctoral
fellow at the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, D.C., where
she was responsible for evaluating national regulations and policies that
are at the intersection of engineering, technology and society.
She earned a bachelor's degree in Physics from Grove City College
(1979), and also holds a master's in Industrial Engineering Management from
the University of Pittsburgh (1983) and master's and doctorate degrees in
Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University (1987 and
1990).
Dr. Jackson's industry-related activities also include service on the
board of directors of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), as well
as its Governance & Nominating and Executive committees.
Headquartered in Monroeville, PA, Westinghouse offers a wide range of
nuclear plant products and services to utilities around the world,
including fuel, spent fuel management, service and maintenance,
instrumentation and control, and advanced nuclear plant designs.
Westinghouse supplied the world's first commercial nuclear power plant in
1957 and has designed the world's largest installed base of operating
nuclear power plants.
SOURCE Westinghouse Electric Company
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