Brian Smith Engineering Associates | Electrical Engineering and Consulting, Santa Barbara, CA

ABOUT

Experienced Electrical Engineering

Smith Engineering Associates is a full service electrical engineering/consulting firm located in Santa Barbara, California. Most of our work comes from Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo counties, but we have done projects throughout the State of California.

Brian S. Smith, P.E.
Principal Engineer

Project estimating, supervision, electrical engineering and lighting design, specification writing, site inspections, cost estimating, and AutoCAD drafting.

BACKGROUND

6 years of experience working for Square D Company prior to coming to work at John Buss & Associates. While with Square D Company, received invaluable factory training on circuit breakers, switchboards, high voltage equipment, motor control equipment, underfloor duct systems, transformers, and virtually every type of equipment used in power distribution systems. Worked at John Buss & Associates for 2 years as a project engineer. Became a partner in the firm in 1990 and the sole owner in January of 1991.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona (1983).

LICENSING

California Licensed Professional Engineer No. E013491.
Georgia Licensed Professional Engineer No. 025282
Ohio Licensed Professional Engineer No. E63190
Colorado Licensed Professional Engineer No. 32331
Texas Licensed Professional Engineer No. 82953
Arizona Licensed Professional Engineer No. 32195
NCEES Certified for Electrical Engineering, No. 15985

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

California Society of Professional Engineers, member #103037166
Illuminating Engineers Society (Secretary 1991-1993, Treasurer 1994-1998)
National Fire Protection Association, member #A-31452690000
International Association of Electrical Inspectors, member #00010536

Yanet Barrera CAD Drafter

Manual and AutoCAD drafting, word processing. ITT Technical Institute, Oxnard CA, A.S. Computer Drafting and Design, March 2005

EXPERTISE

LIGHTING DESIGN

Our firm has designed interior lighting systems for a wide variety of applications. These include offices, hotels, retail stores, restaurants, classrooms, laboratories, warehouses, hospitals, manufacturing facilities, residences, parking garages, and many others. Our firm also has considerable experience designing exterior lighting systems. These include parking lots, roadways, sports facilities, landscape lighting, and security floodlighting. Lighting design is performed using a variety of software modeling systems.

POWER ENGINEERING/DESIGN

Smith Engineering Associates has designed power distribution systems for a wide variety of applications. Our services often include: utility company coordination, high voltage distribution system design, metering/sub-distribution equipment design, sub-panel location and feeder design, and circuiting of all types of lighting, general purpose, and specialized loads. We also have considerable experience designing emergency/standby power systems and motor control systems.

TELEPHONE/COMMUNICATIONS

We will assist our clients in providing flexible and expandable telephone/data/intercom systems. Our work typically includes: coordination with telephone and cable TV companies, design of “conduit only” raceway systems, location of outlets, and coordination with system installers.

FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS

We have designed a wide range of fire alarm systems from the basic systems often required by fire departments to the elaborate systems used in hospitals or dormitories.

DRAWINGS

Our drawings are produced using AutoCAD software on IBM compatible workstations. A Hewlett-Packard plotter is used to put the digitized drawings on bond, vellum, or mylar with in sizes up to 30″x48″.