Howard W. Penrose, Ph.D., CMRP, CEM, CMVP, is president of MotorDoc® LLC, a Veteran-Owned Small Business. He chairs standards at American Clean Power (2022-25), previously led SMRP (2018), and has been active with IEEE since 1993. He represents the USA for CIGRE machine standards (2024-28) and serves on NEMA rail electrification standards (2024+). A former Senior Research Engineer at the University of Chicago, he’s a 5-time UAW-GM Quality Award winner. His work spans GM and John Deere hybrids, Navy machine repair, and high-temperature motors. He holds certifications in reliability, energy, M&V, and data science from Kennedy-Western, Stanford, Michigan, AWS, and IBM.