Professor Emeritus
Electrical and Computer Engineering, High Voltage Lab
Campus Address:
205 Dreese Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
Phone: (614) 292-7410
Fax: (614) 292-7596
E-mail: sebo.1@osu.edu
Web: http://www.ece.osu.edu/~sebo/
Stephen A. Sebo received the M.S.E.E. degree from the
He was a Laboratory and Test Engineer of the Budapest Electric Company
between 1957 and 1961. He was a faculty member of the
His main areas of interest are Electric Power Systems, High Voltage Engineering, and Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC).
He is the 1981 recipient of Edison Electric Institute's Power Educator Award. He received the 1982 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Power Engineering Society with Ross Caldecott. He was the American Electric Power Professor at OSU between 1982 and 2003. He was the Neal A. Smith Professor at OSU between 1995 and 2003. He was named Technical Person of the Year by Columbus Technical Council in 1994.
Many projects of Professor Sebo's research have been conducted in the fields of Electric Power Systems, High Voltage Engineering, and EMC. The principal topics were the ground return current distribution along power lines considering the end effects, interference caused by power lines and cables, the study of power line corona effects, voltages induced by high voltage power lines, environmental effects of electric power transmission systems, electromagnetic fields of AC and HVDC transmission stations, RF noise caused by HVDC converter station operation, RF impedance measurements on large station equipment, hybrid (AC and DC) transmission line corona effects, magnetic field shielding, fog chamber development, high voltage insulator performance, overvoltages, small gap performance, live-line maintenance tests, partial discharges, and various EMC projects.
His major research accomplishments were the pioneering of the scale modeling techniques of high voltage AC and HVDC transmission stations in order to determine the three-dimensional distribution of their electric and magnetic fields, and the transient magnetic field distribution measurements related to an airplane fuselage hit by a lightning-type surge current.
Electric power systems, high voltage engineering, overvoltages in electrical engineering, noise/interference/safety in electrical engineering, engineering economics, reliability engineering, energy conversion.
Dr. Sebo has authored or co-authored many technical publications: close to 50 refereed papers, over 150 conference papers, close to 40 technical reports, over 10 class and short course notes, several panel papers, and two book chapters.
He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1992. He is active in the IEEE Power Engineering Society, and the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society.
Professor Sebo was the Public Member of the Power Siting Board of the State
of
Reading, swimming, and with his wife, Eva: gardening, cooking, folk art, classical music, and travel -- and working in the High Voltage Lab.
Bonus
OSU High Voltage Lab calendars (can be printed and framed):
2009 Calendar