Dr. Robert A. Hanna is a registered professional engineer in the provinces of Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, and a designated consulting engineer.   He is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (FIEE), UK, and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC).   He is President of IEEE Canada and IEEE Director (Region 7) for 2006 - 2007.

In the past 34 years, Dr. Hanna has been actively engaged in all aspects of electrical design work, complex power quality investigations, UPS/Emergency generator installations and Adjustable Speed Drives (ASDs) applications covering over 60 installations for over 50 clients. The work conducted in these areas has resulted in 90 technical company reports, 35 technical papers including 20 IEEE transaction/conference papers. He is frequently retained as a senior consultant to provide unique technical expertise on complex, non-conventional, multimillion dollars projects for large industrial customers and consulting firms.

RPM Engineering Ltd. is a privately owned Canadian corporation that provides specialized consulting services in Application of Adjustable Speed Drives, Power Quality Investigation, Emergency backup power and electrical equipment failure analysis. Dr. Robert A. Hanna is president of RPM Engineering that was incorporated in June 1992. RPM Engineering has successfully completed over 50 projects throughout North America covering Petro-Chemical, Mining, Pulp & Paper and Nuclear industries as well as commercial and Federal Government installations. In some cases, RPM Engineering was retained as a single source to carry out complex investigation into unique problems or recommending and implementing solutions to first of its kind applications. RPM Engineering was retained as an expert witness in some litigation cases.

RPM Engineering has conducted field start up and commissioning of several installations including carrying out field measurements using advance power quality on-line monitors.

RPM Engineering has a selection of advance power quality instrumentation. These units have been used in various industry sectors, nuclear plants and critical data processing centres to conduct power quality investigations. The on-line monitoring unit measures three-phase voltage and current, harmonics, line transients, inrush current, load profile and many other electrical parameters.