John Albert Kay is a retired Canadian

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. Kay was an electrical engineering student at

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. He worked for

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beginning in 1988, and retired as a principal engineer in 2021. Kay received the 2007 Meritorious Service Award of the IEEE Pulp and Paper Industry Committee. He was named a

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

(IEEE) in 2012 "for his contributions to

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resistant medium voltage control and protection technologies". He was a recipient of the 2015 James Farrington Award of the

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for his work on vibration monitoring. Rockwell Automation gave him their Odo J. Struger Award in 2020, and in 2021 he received the George Burwash Langford Award of the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians. Conestoga College lists him as an alumnus of distinction.

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