SAMPE Journal - November/December 2020 - 2

FROM THE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

SAMPE's Award Committees Have Been Busy
Recognizing Winners
DR. SCOTT W. BECKWITH, FSAMPE

scott@sampe.org | swbeckwith@aol.com

Awards for notable achievements, whether involving scientific breakthroughs or personal/team achievements, are particularly
important to SAMPE membership, and seem even more important now, when our members haven't been able to enjoy the in-person interactions of industry events. Both SAMPE North America and SAMPE Global have Award Committees that are tasked with
developing awards that recognize significant contributions to our society's mission and goals. Such an award, developed by the
North America Award Committee, is the new "Chapter of the Year Award (COTY)."
This inaugural award invited SAMPE's North

the highest with five 1st place votes and three 2nd place

America chapters to submit an entry covering activ-

votes from the 10 eligible voters on the Awards Com-

ities they held and support over the past year; to sup-

mittee. Utah presented several unique aspects that

port their chapter membership, and SAMPE's overall

the committee noted:

mission regarding education, development and community support in critical areas, both technological
and educational. The awards committee consisted
of ten SAMPE Members that read all submittals and
then independently voted using a previously agreed
upon rubric covering a dozen critical evaluation ar-

A. Utah provides support over a very wide geographical area to 7 university chapters (as far away
as Montana).
B. Provides support to a high school district that
instructs teachers how to teach composites via

eas. By the mid-June deadline, SAMPE HQ had seven

"hands-on" training activities.

chapters vying for the $2500 financial award: Balti-

C. Works with industry, manufacturing institutions

more-Washington, Los Angeles, Midwest, New Jersey,

(thru UAMMI), & Utah Government of Economic

Seattle, South Texas, and, Utah. All the submittals

Development.

responded to the award criteria and guidelines by
providing unique ideas, activity summaries, and discussion of new member and chapter events. It should
be noted that all of the submittals were very good,
and also quite unique in the areas they covered in re-

D. Other entities such as Hill AFB, Utah Engineering Council, Aerospace Pathways Education Program, Utah Inland Port Authority all supported by
SAMPE Utah.
E. Holds numerous chapter events, including the

sponding to the various criteria.
COTY was established to provide recognition and

Wasatch Front Materials Expo (WFME) that usually

a small monetary award to a single chapter winner.

hosts around 70 Exhibitors, and 400 to 500 attend-

The overall winner for the inaugural Chapter of the

ees annually and a student pre-conference bridge

Year Award went to the Utah Chapter. They scored

building contest.

SAMPE Utah UEC Winners

(L-R) Jordan Oldroyd (Fresh Engineering Face), Dr. Dan Adams (Academic Engineer of Year Nominee), George Hansen (Engineer of Year
Winner).

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