Abstract :
The Power Systems Protection (PSP) Committee of the Industry Applications Society (IAS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) is a relatively young committee of IEEE, which was formally elevated to committee status on January 1, 1977 from its former status as a subcommittee of the Industrial and Commercial Power Systems (I&CPS) Committee. The identifiable roots of this committee, however, date back almost fifty years, and its existence as an identifiable entity to February, 1961, when it was established as a subcommittee of the I&CPS Committee, at that time an American Institute of Electrical Engineers´ (AIEE) committee. Any history of the PSP Committee that fails to trace its evolution from its earliest roots to its present status would not be complete.
