2010 Black Engineer of the Year Winners

Black Engineer of the Year
2010 Black Engineer of The Year Award Winners

Black Engineer of the Year
John Harris, II
Vice President, Contracts and Supply Chain
Raytheon Company

Career Achievement - Government
Lt. General (Select) Larry Spencer
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Budget
U.S. Air Force

Henry Jones, Ph.D.
Senior Hydrologist
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Career Achievement - Industry
Velma Deleveaux, Ph.D.
Senior Associate
Booz Allen Hamilton

Charles Henry
Vice President -Information Technology
Verizon Communications

Community Service
Maria Thorpe
Head, Avionics Systems Integration Branch
Naval Air Systems Command

Corporate Promotion of Education
George Parker, Ph.D.
Lead Engineer/Senior Chemist, Materials
Characterization, E & M Materials Characterization &
Safety
The Boeing Company

Dave Barclay Affirmative Action
William Lawrence
Senior Diversity Program Manager
IBM Corporation

Diversity Leadership - Government
Davede Alexander
Director, Strategic Outreach
United States Naval Academy

Diversity Leadership - Industry
William Albright, Jr.
Director, Quality of Work Life & Benefits
The MITRE Corporation

Entrepreneur Leadership
June Smith
President and Founder
Immediate System Resources, Inc.

GEM Outstanding Young Alumnus
Terita Norton
Project Engineer
The Aerospace Corporation

K-12 Promotion of Education
Denise Christopher
Software Engineering Manager
Northrop Grumman Corporation

Lifetime Achievement
William Ward
General
U.S. Army

Most Promising Engineer or Scientist - Government
Shakti Davis, Ph.D.
Member Technical Staff
MIT Lincoln Laboratories

Jeremy Laster
Structural Engineer
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Most Promising Engineer or Scientist - Industry
Kareem Muhammad
Thermal Systems Engineer, Thermal Design Analysis
The Boeing Company

Outstanding Technical Contribution - Government
Bilal Bomani, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
NASA Glenn Research Center

Outstanding Technical Contribution - Industry
Nicholas Fuller, Ph.D.
Manager, Photovoltaics, Electrochemical, and Thin Film
Processing
IBM Corporation

Pioneer Award
Keith Black, MD
Director
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

President's Award for IT Leadership
David Montgomery
Vice President
Cardinal Health

Pamela Blow-Mitchell
Vice President of Mission Success
Lockheed Martin Corporation

Professional Achievement - Government
Steffanie Easter, SES
Assistant Commander for Acquisition
Naval Air Systems Command

Sharon Smoot
Assistant Deputy Commander
Naval Sea Systems Command

Professional Achievement - Industry
Lloyd Howell, Jr.
Senior Vice President
Booz Allen Hamilton

Alfred W. Zollar
General Manager, Tivoli Software
IBM Corporation

Supplier Diversity
Gloria Pualani
Director, Socio-Economic Business Programs
Northrop Grumman Corporation

The Chairman's Award
Karen Daniel
Chief Financial Officer
Black & Veatch Corporation

The Deans' Award
Norman Fortenberry, Ph.D.
Director, Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on
Engineering Education
The National Academies

Special Recognition Awards

Adrienne Ephrem
Electronics Engineer- Project Engineer
Air Force Research Laboratory

Angela Thomas
Vice President
Cardinal Health

James Ogundele
Director
Corning Incorporated

Brandon Gadson
Senior Engineer- Systems
General Dynamics

Stanley Rogers
Senior Command Strategic Planner & Senior Research
Scientist/Engineer
HQ Air Force Materiel Command & Air Force Research Laboratory

Ijeoma Nnebe, Ph.D.
Research Staff Member-Polymer-Based Materials
Characterization and Development
IBM Corporation

Richard Smith
Director, Common Products Subcontract Management
Lockheed Martin Corporation

Elsie Yvonne Davis
Range Operations Division Head
Naval Air Systems Command

William Jones, Ph.D.
Senior Staff Scientist
Northrop Grumman Corporation

Johney Green, Ph.D.
Division Director
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Charles Worrell, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist
The MITRE Corporation

Micheal Johnson
Director, Office of New Reactors
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Paul Ampadu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Rochester