The ultimate engineering reward: Industry recognition

By Doug Kinneard oeing employees and retirees are not only recognized by their colleagues as experts in their fields, but by in- Bdustry peers around the globe. Many are honored by national and international associations and organizations for their outstanding technical work, for their contributions to the community, and for their efforts to mentor and educate stu- dents and young engineers. Here’s a list of some of the lead- ing culturally diverse organizations and the employ- ees they recognized in 2006:

Frederick “Yaw” Davis, engineering manager for Phantom Works Engineering & Information Technology’s Integrated Electronics Subsystems Technology team in Huntington Beach, Calif., received the Pioneer of the Year Award from the National Society of Black Engineers. P h oto b y Jack Byers

Asian American Engineer of the Year Rudy deLeon – Top 100 Most Important Hispanics in Technology Dennis Muilenburg – Fellow Dev Banerjee – AAEOY Engineer of the Year, St. Louis Rigoberto Perez – HENAAC Role Model (of the week, March 13) Vladimir Titov – Fellow Susan Ying – AAEOY Engineer of the Year, Northwest Art Rosales – Top 100 Most Important Hispanics in Technology Jay Yoshinaga – AAEOY Engineer of the Year, Southwest Philip de St Aubin – Top 100 Most Important Hispanics in SAE-Society of Automotive Engineers, International Technology Kirby Keller – Power Systems Conference Oral Award American Helicopter Society John Tracy – HENAAC Engineer of the Year, Executive Excellence Robert Spitzer – International Medal of Honor Leo Dadone – Gruppo Agusta Award John Tracy – Top 100 Most Important Hispanics in Technology Peter Hartman – Gruppo Agusta Award Yvonne Vargas – Luminary Award SHPE-Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Robert Narducci – Gruppo Agusta Award Carlos Galvan – Most Promising Engineer Award Andrew Peterson – Gruppo Agusta Award Industrial Research Institute David Swain (retired) – Medal of Technology Award SME-Society of Manufacturing Engineers American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Carolyn Corvi – Eli Whitney Productivity Award Edward Gerry – Pioneer Award Institute of Industrial Engineers – Honorary Fellow Rick Bennett – Innovation Award Society of Experimental Test Pilots Phillippe Spalart – Fluid Dynamics Award Hong Chen – Innovation Award Rudy Haug – Awarded the position of Fellow John Tracy – Fellow Dale Flinn – Innovation Award Norm Howell – Iven C. Kincheloe Award Robert Van Allen – Pioneer Award Diane Godfrey – Innovation Award Steven Guyot – Innovation Award Society of Women Engineers ASEI-American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Rich Hawn – Innovation Award Frances Ferris – SWE Fellow Kumar Bhatia – Engineering Excellence Award Dino MacRis – Innovation Award Susan Moore – SWE Fellow Dinesh Keskar – Outstanding Achievement Award David Miller – Innovation Award Steven Souza – Innovation Award Standards of Engineering Society BEYA-Black Engineer of the Year Yolanda Strickland – Innovation Award Laura Hitchcock – Leo B. Moore Medal David Blanding – Career Achievement Award Cindy Williamson – Innovation Award James Bell – Listed Among the Top 100 Blacks in Technology Women of Color in Technology Norma Clayton – Listed Among the Top 100 Blacks in Technology International Council for the Aeronautical Sciences Elaine Banks – Technology All Star Jim Wigfall – Listed Among the Top 100 Blacks in Technology Robert Liebeck – ICAS Award for Innovation in Aeronautics Daneisha Brazzle – Rising Star Elaine Clemens – Technology All Star Government Electronics and Information Technology National Society of Black Engineers Cecille Herrera – Rising Star Association Frederick “Yaw” Davis – NSBE Pioneer of the Year Nia Jetter – Rising Star Larry Bauer – Technical Fellow, Configuration Management Anne Kao – Research Leadership Award Karen Chandler – Associate Technical Fellow, Configuration Organization of Chinese Americans Eileen Loh – Rising Star Management Charlotte Lin – Asian Corporate Achievement Award Carolyn Nichols – Career Achievement Award Dan McCurry – Technical Fellow, Configuration Management Rachel Tuilesu – Rising Star Jim Vandyke – Associate Technical Fellow, Data Management Royal Aeronautical Society Christelle Watkins – Technology All Star Paco Escarti – Fellow Barbara Wilson – Professional Achievement Award Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Jim Jamieson – Fellow Shanying Zeng – Technology All Star Conference Ron Johnson – Fellow Michael Cave – Top 100 Most Important Hispanics in Technology Jim Morris – Fellow Roberto Duffy – Top 100 Most Important Hispanics in Technology

50 Chief Technology Officer Bob Krieger: Boeing inventors are among aerospace pioneers

By Doug Kinneard oday’s Boeing inventors rank among those “who have taken us from Stephen Poteet System, Method and Computer- low-flying biplanes to powerful rockets,” said Bob Krieger, Boeing chief William Ferng Program Product for Structured Data Andrew Booker Capture technology officer and president of Phantom Works, when he presented James Milstead T Methods for Fabricating Special Invention Awards to honorees in St. Louis. They were among 107 Boe- Electromagnetic Meta-Materials Renee Pankrast (Scott Greene, David ing employees honored at three separate ceremonies across the United States Minas Tanielian Hester recognized at Midwest event) for their 33 inventions in 2006. Formed Structural Assembly and Probabilistic Risk Evaluation of “You join those who have transported astronauts to the moon and landing Associated Preform and Method Debris Impact Capability and Toler- Garry Booker ance, PREDICT vehicles to the outer reaches of space,” said Krieger. “And you are among those Ian Fialho who have moved us from the operation of individual aircraft to a vast network Luis Leon David Foutch Winston Wang of integrated systems that will connect and protect people around the world.” Gregory Ramsey Reflector Deployment Error Jim Morris, vice president of Engineering and Manufacturing at Boeing Daniel Sanders Estimation Commercial Airplanes, and Nan Bouchard, vice president of Integrated De- Jeff Will Richard Fowell Arunkumar Nayak fense Systems’ Engineering and Mission Assurance, were also keynote speak- Phased Array Antenna Choke Plate ers at events in Seattle and Long Beach, Calif., respectively. Apparatus and Method Hanching Wang Stanley Ferguson Phase Recovery Filtering Techniques “In the spirit of Bill Boeing, our inventors think through what is said to be for SCP Throughput Shortage impossible – and instead they find a way to succeed,” says Intellectual Prop- David Rasmussen Michael Taylor Richard Chiang erty Management Vice President Rob Gullette, who sponsors the awards. Airline Traffic Modeling and Molding Process and Apparatus Allocation System for Producing Unified Composite Roger Parker Structures Midwest Region Steven Franzen Seal Fitting – Fluid Carrying Richard Lonsdale Roger Burgess Apparatus Coleman Standish William Kehner Method for Restoring Software Robert Schreiber Surge Pressure Reducing Hose Patrick Thrash Method and Apparatus for Automati- Applications on Desktop Computers Mark VanHorne Assembly Alexander Velicki cally Collecting Terrain Source Data Dustin Coe for Display during Flight Simulation Method for Coordinated Command Manifold Mounting – Load Carrying Jeffery Flenoy System, Method and Computer Program Product for Signal Robert Lechner and Control of Autonomous Vehicles Apparatus, Infinitely Adjustable Eric Brehm Processing of Array Data William Bond Shrouded Valve Body – Conducting Kirk Wong Landing Gear High Performance Richard Nielsen Shock Strut (HPSS) Valve Roderick Leitch Apparatus, Shutoff Valve Assembly Michael Reese Jackie McNeese Jr. Sandra Nielsen Akif Bolukbasi Shrouded Body – Fluid-Conducting Superplastic Forming of Titanium Modular Inter-modal Platform (MIP) Eric Muehle Apparatus, Flow Meter Assembly Assemblies Sustaining a Fleet of Configuration- Anibal Garcia James Riddle Thomas Connelly Controlled Assets Aerial Refueling System Thomas Reiner Wireless CASS Interface Device Kent Dunstan Alan Bacon Shrouded Fluid-Conducting Myles Rohrlick Electromagnetic Railgun Projectile William Williams III Robert Beggs Apparatus John Simmons James Cook Peter Comley Kim Bonin James Carns James Wells Randall Marion Randolf Bradley Theron Cutler Larry Hefti William Rootz Terence Burke Mark Shelly Near-Hermetic Packaging of Gallium- Steven Wegener Arsenide Semiconductor Devices and Barry Fox Mass on Model Electromagnetic Railgun Projectile Manufacturing Method Therefor Peter Gould Bruce Shimel Douglas Elder Fong Shi Dean Hooks Scott Stevenson Stephen King Standoff Land Attack-Expanded Fastener Installation Apparatus and System, Method and Computer- Janet Oakes Response Device Computer Associated Method Program Product for Structured Data Aaron Eggemeyer Daniel Hippe Christian Stoughton Capture James Leonard Jenny Thompson Scott Greene Single Fiber Links for Full Duplex Robert Menzel Robert White David Hester Aircraft Data Network Chandler Wilson Richard Meyer Tuong Truong (James Milstead, Renee Pankrast System and Method for Detecting a Gaze Tracking, Eye-Tracking recognized at Southwest event, for Integrated System-of-Systems Leak in a Hydraulic Fluid System Assembly and an Associated Method this same invention, which appears Modeling Environment and Related of Calibration Allan Beiderman in the list twice for this reason.) Methods John Aughey Patrick Rexing Don O’Connell Carl Vorst System Anechoic Test Chamber and Northwest Region Phillip Denby Computational Air Data System Using Method of Determining a Loss Char- Ali Bahrami acteristic of a Material Specimen Angle-of-Attack and Angle-of- Technology/Invention: Method, Leland Hemming Sideslip Apparatus and Computer Program Southwest Region Kevin Wise Charles Leonard Products for Information Retrieval Systems and Methods for Production Tanker In-flight Refueling and Document Classification Utilizing Phased-Array Antenna Architecture Planning by Visualizing Products Capability (multiple inventions and a Multidimensional Subspace Having Digitally-Controlled Central- and Resources in a Manufacturing inventors): Inventor(s) ized Beam Forming Process Truss Mounted, Directional Loading, Anne Kao William Davis Joseph Anelle Fluid Carrying Apparatus Redundant Jason Wu Robert Hladek Carl Bouffiou Robert Cranfill

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