Motor Basics

W. Roger Wood is a semiretired engineer who worked for 35 years in the pulp and paper industry. Roger was born on a farm in rural Maine and attended high school in Belfast, Maine. After high school, Roger attended the University of Maine and graduated with a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering. After college, he went to work in a large Paper Mill in Maine as a project engineer. His career in pulp and paper included most of his years in the maintenance organization working as a Maintenance Planner. Maintenance Manager, and Manager of Engineering, Maintenance, and Utilities. After retiring from the pulp and paper industry, he has been working on a part time basis as a technical writer, Adjunct instructor at a small engineering college, and an instructor for a nationwide training company teaching classes on operations and maintenance of various types of mechanical equipment. Roger's expertise is in the area of rotating equipment such as pumps, motors, mechanical drives, hydraulics and other equipment used in industrial and commercial facilities. He has worked on projects developing training materials targeting employees in pulp and paper and oil and gas industry. He has also done work as a lubrication specialist for a supplier to the pulp and paper industry in Maine. Roger is married with two daughters and four grandchildren. He and his wife are gardeners that have extensive gardens on there property in Orland, Maine. They are also antique buffs and run a seasonal antique business from a shop adjacent to there home. Roger is active in his local town and where he serves as President of the Orland Historical Society, Treasurer of the Rising Sun #71 Masonic Lodge in Orland, member of the planning board in Orland, and volunteers as a tour guide at the Cole Land Transportation Museum in Bangor, Maine.