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Golden Torch Honorees Award Recipients golDEN torCH lEgaCy awarD Pat loCkE President Life Plan Services LLC and Seeds of Humanity Foundation Inc. JoSEPH irwiN millEr (Awarded Posthumously) Former President and Chairman Cummins Inc. Earl SHiPP Vice President and Site Director of Texas Operations The Dow Chemical Company CorPoratE CommuNity SErviCE kEy liNk tECHNologiES Flossmoor, Ill. govErNmENt DivErSity lEaDErSHiP SPaCE aND Naval warFarE SyStEmS CommaND CorPoratE EDuCatioN PartNErSHiP PaCiFiC gaS aND ElECtriC ComPaNy San Francisco, Calif. DiStiNguiSHED ENgiNEEr oF tHE yEar CamEroN DryDEN Business Area Manager Systems and Service Northrop Grumman Adaptive Optics Associates graDuatE StuDENt oF tHE yEar CHiNyErE mBaCHu Chemical Engineering Ph.D. Candidate Tennessee Technological University Dr. JaNiCE a. lumPkiN EDuCator oF tHE yEar United States Military Academy – West Point, Department of Mathematical Sciences liFEtimE aCHiEvEmENt iN aCaDEmia JamES m. roSSEr, PH.D. President California State University, Los Angeles www.nsbe.org Meet NSBE’s highest honorees, our Golden Torch Award winners! The NSBE Golden Torch Awards, now in their 16th year, recognize organizations and individuals who exemplify our Society’s ideals of academic excellence, professional success and commitment to strengthening the black community. The gala awards ceremony, the climax of NSBE’s 39th Annual Convention, will take place on Saturday, March 30, 2013, at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Ind. The ceremony is designed to motivate young attendees to great accomplishments in engineering. It also serves another worthy cause: since their inception, the NSBE Golden Torch Awards have provided approximately $7 million in scholarships to talented high school seniors. liFEtimE aCHiEvEmENt iN govErNmENt ray i. FiElDS Deputy Major Program Manager, PEO IWS, Advanced Technology Directorate – Naval Sea Systems Command PioNEEr oF tHE yEar toNi k. BrowN Senior Manager, Assembly and Integration Technology Boeing Research and Technology Engineering, Operations, and Technology The Boeing Company liFEtimE aCHiEvEmENt iN iNDuStry JoSEPH B. aNDErSoN Chief Executive Officer and Chairman TAG Holdings, LLC PrE-CollEgE iNitiativE DirECtor oF tHE yEar SyBil y. BrowN, PH.D. Teacher and Advisor Northland High School Columbus, Ohio PrE-CollEgE iNitiativE Program oF tHE yEar martiNSvillE aND HENry CouNty NSBE Jr. CHaPtEr Martinsville, Va. PrE-CollEgE iNitiativE StuDENt oF tHE yEar (malE) DariuS SimiNgtoN Martinsville and Henry County NSBE Jr. Chapter Martinsville, Va. PrE-CollEgE iNitiativE StuDENt oF tHE yEar (FEmalE) Joi StEvENS San Antonio City Wide NSBE Jr. Chapter San Antonio, Texas outStaNDiNg womaN iN tECHNology JamESHa Park Systems Engineer and System Safety Engineer Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems nsbe magazine • winter 2013 • 37 http://www.nsbe.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of NSBE - Winter 2013

NSBE - Winter 2013
Contents
Graduation! Pump Up the Party
Clean Up Your Digital Brand
Reelected
ITW’s Dr. Alexander Anim- Mensah
Steven Henderson of Life Technologies
Patricia Edmonds of NAVAIR
Franklin E. Leaven Jr. of GE Transportation
General Mills: Winning through Diversity
Eye of the Tiger
39TH ANNUAL CONVENTION PREVIEW
Golden Torch Honorees
The Professional’s Perspective
Trailblazers
Professional Development Conference Recap
CE Cover CODE2040: Grooming Business Leaders in Silicon Valley
Uhuru: Freedom
‘To Increase the Number…’
NSBE Calendar
NCEES Employer Profile
Advertisers Index

NSBE - Winter 2013