Robert B. (Bob) Hickey is a licensed professional engineer in five states and is President and Chief Executive of vanZelm, Heywood, and Shadford, Inc., a leading northeast U.S. mechanical and electrical consulting engineering firm based in West Hartford, CT. His 40 years of experience span the electric utility, contracting, and consulting engineering areas of the industry spectrum. He has taught electrical engineering technology as an adjunct faculty member over a two year period at Connecticut's Community Technical College system. He is the author of McGraw-Hill's Electrical Construction Databook.