Brad Bauer is an Army veteran, electrical engineer, and a national leader in the field of electrical safety. Brad currently serves as an electrical engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), specializing in power systems, systems grounding, hazardous energy control, and safety standards development. He has represented USACE as the St. Paul District’s Arc Flash Coordinator and as the Arc Flash Subject Matter Expert for the entirety of USACE’s Electrical Engineering Community of Practice. Prior to his role at USACE, Brad worked as a Research Engineer at Qrona Technologies.  Here, Brad’s focus was on designing in-situ ultrahigh vacuum magnetron sputtering technology for integration into Molecular Beam Epitaxy systems. Additionally, Brad served for six years in the US Army where he specialized in helicopter avionics and electrical systems repair. Brad is a licensed professional engineer and holds a MS in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.