Howard W. Penrose, PhD, CMRP, CEM®

Howard W. Penrose, PhD, CMRP, CEM® is president of MotorDoc® LLC, a veteran-owned small business. He was a U.S. Navy electric machine repair/rewind journeyman (NEC 4619/4621) and is the 2022-2025 chair of standards development at American Clean Power. Penrose is the past chair of the Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP); past chair of Chicago Section IEEE; an active member of IEEE standards committee(s); and past Senior Research Engineer at the University of Chicago Energy Resources Center. He is a five-time recipient of the UAW-GM People Make Quality Happen Award, a leading researcher of ESA/MCSA applications, and has worked with diverse design teams, including the GM hybrid Tahoe and Volt, John Deere 644 and 944 hybrid construction tractors, LVAD heart pump, flywheel generators, and high temperature/low atmosphere electric machines. He serves on the SMRP government affairs team for workforce, smart grid, cybersecurity, and infrastructure, among numerous other energy/environment/ workforce programs. Penrose received his PhD in industrial-general engineering and is certified in data science and machine learning from Kansas Western University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, IBM, and AWS.