Doug Taylor

Douglas Taylor received his BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Idaho in 2007 and 2009, respectively. He joined Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) in 2009 and worked as a protection engineer and a research engineer in the Research and Development division. In 2019, Doug joined the system protection group at Avista Utilities and served as principal protection engineer. Doug rejoined SEL in 2024 and is currently a principal engineer. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Washington, is a member of IEEE, and was formerly a member of the Western Protective Relay Conference (WPRC) planning committee. Doug was selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) 24th Annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Doug’s main interests are power system protection and power system analysis. He holds 4 patents and has coauthored over 20 technical papers in power system protection.​