Inaugural class to be honored for commitment and contributions on November 16
WARRENDALE, PA. (PRWEB) OCTOBER 24, 2019
SAE International announces its inaugural Contributor of the Year Class, recognizing those for their ongoing commitment and contributions to the organization and the entire mobility industry. From the Contributor of the Year Class, the organization will bestow a top honor—The SAE International Contributor of the Year Award—to one individual who stands out for peerless commitment to advancing the industry through SAE activities at an awards dinner on November 16, in Las Vegas.
“We are so grateful to the more than 60,000 individuals who help to move the mobility industry forward by tirelessly contributing their time, knowledge and passion to SAE International each year,” said Raman Venkatesh, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at SAE International. “To further honor those professionals from industry and academia who best support the efforts of SAE International, we launched this honor so that they receive the proper thanks and recognition they deserve.”
The members of the 2019 Contributor of the Year Class were nominated by SAE International staff based on their wide-ranging volunteer and engagement contributions across the organization.
The 2019 Contributor of the Year Class (listed below by state then alphabetically):
California
Dean Case, Motivo Engineering
Nhat Mai, Aerofit LLC
Connecticut
Ravi Rajamani, drR2 Consulting
Florida
Paul Kunder, Amera-Veritas Inc.
Daniel Selke, Mercedes-Benz USA LLC
Indiana
Jacque Bader, Rolls-Royce Corporation
Mark Paul, Rolls-Royce Corporation
Kansas
Robert Voros, Textron Aviation
Maryland
Suzanne Lightman, National Institute of Standards & Technology
Massachusetts
Joe Barkai, JBMC
Michigan
Amalia Batori, Bosch Corporation
Angela Barber, Mitsubishi Motors R&D of America Inc.
Lisa Boran, Ford Motor Company
Vern Caron, Caron Engineering Inc.
Maura Chmielowiec, General Motors
Alba Colon, Hendrick Motorsports
Robert Gruszczynski, Volkswagen of America (Retired)
Joseph Jaklic, Applications Engineering
John Johnson, Michigan Technological University
Adit Joshi, Ford Motor Company
Steven Karamihas, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Laura Klauser, General Motors
John Krzeszewski, Aptiv
Alan Pearson, Whitehorse Manufacturing Quality Consultants LLC
Ronald Rath, TECAT Performance Systems
Pranab Saha, Kolano and Saha Engineers Inc.
Mark Zachos, DG Technologies
Missouri
Brian Sova, Boeing
New York
Professor Martin Gordon, P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology
North Carolina
Jennifer LaFever, Roush & Yates Racing Engines LLC
Rhonda Walthall, Collins Aerospace
Ohio
Jeffrey Calcaterra, United States Air Force
Kinsey Olson Sovern, Goken America
Pennsylvania
Gary Brown, Carpenter Technology Corp
Tennessee
Robert Wagner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Texas
Lonnie Dong, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Floyd Fazi, Lockheed Martin Corp
Shadrach Nanney, Parker Hannifin Corp
Thomas Ryan, III, T. Ryan and Associates
Robert Steffen, Raytheon Precision Manufacturing
Virginia
Mehdi Ahmadian, Virginia Tech
Washington, D.C.
Robert Ireland, Airlines for America
Jennifer Morrison, Mazda Motor Corporation
Nadir Yilmaz, Howard University
Canada
Jason Kuo, Alberta Transportation
Jacques Leroux, Dow Chemical
Israel
Leonid Tartakovsky, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Italy
Dr. Simona Silvia Merola, Ph.D., Istituto Motori CNR
To learn more about volunteer programs and opportunities at SAE International, please visit:
https://www.sae.org/participate/volunteer.
About SAE International
SAE International is a global association committed to advancing mobility knowledge and solutions for the benefit of humanity. By engaging nearly 200,000 engineers, technical experts and volunteers, we connect and educate mobility professionals to enable safe, clean, and accessible mobility solutions. We act on two priorities: encouraging a lifetime of learning for mobility engineering professionals and setting the standards for industry engineering. We strive for a better world through the work of our philanthropic SAE Foundation, including programs award-winning programs like A World in Motion
and the Collegiate Design Series
. More at http://www.sae.org.
“We are so grateful to the more than 60,000 individuals who help to move the mobility industry forward by tirelessly contributing their time, knowledge and passion to SAE International each year.” - Raman Venkatesh, Ph.D., EVP and COO at SAE International.
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