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Rod Holland Rod Holland performs modeling, simulation, and controls system design at Spirae and
brings 22 years of experience in control systems and the power systems sector. He has designed and
commissioned controls systems for steam turbines, gas turbines, and reciprocating engines ranging from 100kW
backup systems to 800MW mainline steam systems. This experience has also included controls systems
development, simulation, and modeling for applications such as power plants, emergency systems, gas pipeline
pumping stations, refineries, railcar systems, and ship power systems. Rod Holland began his career with
Woodward Governor in 1985 as a field engineer, and has since held positions in test engineering, design
engineering, controls systems analysis, and as senior engineer. Throughout this time, he has served as the
chief engineer in the Woodward Middle East office in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and led engineering efforts at the
Woodward UK facility to retrofit National Power's fleet of gas turbines. For Lockheed Martin, he created
simulation models for the DDG (Destroyer) class warship propulsion and generation system as well as the
dynamic simulation of the prototype LCS (Littoral Combat Ship) including gas turbines, water jets, heading
control, and simulation of ship movements. Rod Holland has extensive modeling programming experience in
MatLab, MatLab/Simulink, MatLab code generation for embedded controls, and C-based neural network programming
for engine simulation. He also has tremendous experience in a wide variety of controls programming with C and
PLC programming including IEC-61131 and OPC server client implementation. He holds a BSEE, MSEE, and Ph.D.
in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University (CSU), specializing in control systems and signal
processing, and has enjoyed acting as visiting professor and adjunct professor at North Dakota State
University and CSU, respectively.
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