Hall of Fame

2020Hall of Fame

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY

REAR ADMIRAL HUAN T. NGUYEN

Rear Admiral Huan T. Nguyen graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1981 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He also holds master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University, engineering from Purdue University and information technology from Carnegie Mellon University. Nguyen was born in Hue, Vietnam. During the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War, Nguyen’s parents and siblings were killed by Viet Cong Communist guerillas in their family home outside of Saigon. Nguyen’s uncle took him in, and in 1975 Colonel Edward Veiluva and his wife Dorothy sponsored their family to come to the United States as political refugees. Nguyen was inspired to serve his adopted country by the sailors and Marines who helped thousands of Vietnamese refugees and received a direct commission in the Reserve Engineering Duty Officer program in 1993.

While serving active duty in the military, Nguyen’s operational tours included multiple waterfront maintenance assignments, including being the testing officer on the USS Kitty Hawk. He served as executive officer and chief engineer for the Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (CREW) field office in Iraq, and was instrumental in the stand-up of Joint CREW Composite Squadron One.

Some of his staff assignments include being the director of military programs at Naval Sea System Command (NAVSEA); being the Engineering Duty Officer community manager and most recently, served as deputy chief information officer for NAVSEA. Reserve assignments included command of five units within NAVSEA, the U.S. Pacific Fleet and the Office of Naval Research.

Nguyen has also worked in industry where he has obtained several patents in automotive electronics. In August of 1994, Nguyen began work as a staff electrical engineer for General Motors (GM) where he eventually managed a team of over 30 engineers in the design and integration of the Powertrain Control Module to all GM platforms. In 2006, he became the senior vice president of Bank of America, where he established the strategic framework and governance for Bank of America computing on cybersecurity. In 2009, he began working with Exelis, Inc. as a senior technical advisor and director of business development where he managed a multi-million-dollar portfolio of independent research projects on ground electronic warfare countermeasures.

Nguyen is the first Vietnamese-American to be promoted to the rank of rear admiral. He has received a Legion of Merit and a Bronze Star Medal for his work in the Middle East. He has received the Meritorious Service Medal and the Navy Commendation Medal. He has also had the honor of serving on teams that have been awarded the Joint Meritorious Unit Award, the Navy Unit Commendation and the Navy Meritorious Commendation.

STEPHEN W. SEARCY

Stephen W. Searcy began his education in Missouri, graduating from the University of Missouri with bachelor’s degrees in agricultural mechanization and agricultural engineering and a master’s degree in agricultural mechanization. He received his doctoral degree in agricultural engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1980. While at OSU, his research focused on the applications of microprocessors, which led to the development of a microprocessorcontrolled metering device for pre-germinated seeds that were carried in a highly viscous fluid. This work led Searcy to an assistant professor position at Texas A&M, where he also served as a senior professor and head of the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering until his recent retirement, and is now a professor emeritus.

Searcy has been a longtime member of the American Society of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering (ASABE), where he served as director of their information and electronic technologies (IET) division for two years. From 1998-2000, Searcy lead the IET-354 Computers committee, and was a member of several other technical committees including Power and Machinery (PM)54 Precision Agriculture, PM-58 Agricultural Equipment Automation and IET-07 Forward Planning and Structure. He has also served on the Board of Directors, as treasurer, and in 2016 was elected president.

Searcy is an internationally recognized leader in research on intelligent machine systems for agriculture, and has been a pioneer in the rapidly evolving field of precision agriculture. Recently, he has applied his expertise to the emerging opportunities in bioenergy. Searcy’s prominence in this area of research led to him being selected to serve on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee.

Searcy has also been a major contributor to undergraduate and graduate education. He has procured about $250,000 in resources for the teaching program at Texas A&M and has mentored graduate and undergraduate students, coordinated academic programs, advised student clubs, and done a host of other things to support students and advance engineering education.

Under Searcy’s leadership, the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M has been consistently ranked as a top-5 program for Biological/Agricultural Engineering programs by U.S. News & World Report. He has received many honors and awards throughout his career, including the Distinguished Service Award in Engineering from the University of Missouri’s College of Engineering, the IET Division Chair Distinguished Service Award from ASABE, where he has also been awarded multiple Superior Paper Awards, multiple Blue Ribbon Awards in Educational Aids and was elected the rank of Fellow.

PREVIOUS HALL OF FAME RECIPIENTS

1954 Laurence L. Dresser 1955 Gerald W. McCullough 1956 Richard K. Lane 1957 Thomas M. Lumly Jr. 1958 Guy H. James 1959 Francis J. Wilson 1960 Morrison B. Cunningham 1961 Lloyd E. Elkins 1962 Don McBride 1963 B. Harris Bateman 1964 William W. Caudill 1965 Myron A. Wright 1966 Edwin G. Malzahn 1967 Eugene L. Miller 1968 David G. Murray 1969 Melvin A. Ellsworth 1970 Veldo H. Brewer 1971 Ralph M. Ball 1972 Richard O. Newman 1973 David B. Benham 1974 Carl G. Herrington 1975 James J. Kelly 1975 Gus L. Maciula 1976 Donald E. Adams 1976 James C. Phelps 1976 Fred H. Ramseur Jr. 1977 John S. Zink 1978 Sidney E. Scisson 1979 John L. Hatheway 1979 Eason H. Leonard 1979 Nicholas B. Mavris 1980 John B. Jones Jr. 1981 William J. Collins Jr. 1982 Floyd M. Bartlett 1982 Holmes H. McClure 1983 Bill N. Lacy 1983 George H. Lawrence 1984 Edward C. Joullian III 1984 Glenn E. Penisten 1985 Frank A. McPherson 1986 James E. Barnes 1986 Martin E. Fate Jr. 1987 Raymond A. Porter 1987 James D. Cobb 1988 Choong-Shik Cho 1988 Robert M. Penn 1989 Wilfred P. Schmoe 1989 Neal A. McCaleb 1991 Jim E. Shamas 1991 J. Tinsley Oden 1991 David J. Tippeconnic 1992 W. Wayne Allen 1992 Robert M. Lawrence 1992 Wolter J. Fabrycky 1993 Jack P. Holman 1993 Keith E. Bailey 1993 Kenneth J. Richards 1994 Kerry S. Havner 1994 Donald R. Lehman 1995 Ted E. Davis 1995 D. Ray Booker 1995 Charles L. Hardt 1996 R. Gerald Bennett 1996 Marvin M. Johnson 1996 Jerry D. Homes 1997 H. E. Cobb Jr. 1997 J. N. Reddy 1997 Donald L. Wickens

MARK SUTTON

Mark Sutton graduated from Oklahoma State University with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1980 and began his career with Mid America Pipeline Company where he worked until 1982. Shortly after, he joined GPA Midstream, then called the Gas Processors Association, as director of technical services and worked his way up through the association where, in 2013, he was elected president and CEO. The GPA Midstream Association is comprised of more than 80 operating companies in the midstream industry. The association’s research and technical efforts include setting and adopting standards for natural gas liquids; developing simple and reproducible test methods to define the industry’s raw materials and products; managing a cooperative research program that is used worldwide; and being a go-to resource for a multitude of technical reports and publications.

Under Sutton’s leadership, GPA Midstream established an office of federal affairs in Washington, D.C., and has grown to be an international organization with associations in Europe, Venezuela, Canada and the Middle East.

Sutton also served as the leader of GPA’s sister organization, GPSA Midstream Suppliers Association (GPSA). GPSA has grown to an organization of over 400 companies engaged in meeting the supply and demand service needs of the midstream gas industry. The cooperative producer-supplier relationship demonstrated by GPA Midstream and GPSA allows for the GPA Midstream Association to conduct numerous research and technical evaluation programs through the cooperation and direction of GPA Midstream and GPSA member companies. Additionally, GPSA assists the GPA Midstream Association Research Program and contributes to the future of the industry by providing funds for undergraduate engineering scholarships, as well as professorships at colleges with natural gas programs, contributing more than $1 million to the future of the industry to date.

During Sutton’s tenure with GPA Midstream Association and GPSA, a combined team managed the editing and redeployment of each of the five revisions of the GPSA Engineering Data Book in order to provide the industry with the most up-to-date technical information. The GPSA Engineering Data Book is recognized as a valuable resource around the world and more than 50,000 copies of the book have been distributed through these team efforts.

Sutton has received the Award of Merit from the American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM) for serving as secretary of the ASTM D-2, Subcommittee H, a committee responsible for liquified petroleum (LP)-Gas. He has served on the board and as president of the Tulsa, Okla., Petroleum Club.

Sutton retired from the GPA Midstream Association and GPSA in 2019, having served both associations for nearly 37 years. Since retirement, he has been appointed by GPA Midstream to serve as a public member of the Propane Education and Research Council (PERC), a group he has been involved with since its inception.

Sutton and his wife Patty live off of lake Fort Gibson where he enjoys taking his family and friends boating and, since retirement, has plans to improve his fishing skills.

Sutton reflects on his time at OSU, “my time in Stillwater was one of the best times I have ever had and my advice to students would be to study hard but also make sure you enjoy your time at OSU to the fullest.”

The College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology at Oklahoma State University congratulates Mark Sutton on his induction into the college’s Hall of Fame.

1998 Ronald D. Wickens 1998 John E. Hershey 1999 Ronald L. Calsing 1999 John C. Mihm 1999 Heinz W. Schmitt 2000 Jim W. Bruza 2000 Sherman E. Smith 2000 Thomas W. Wallace 2000 Charles O. Heller 2001 B. N. Murali 2001 Duane Wilson 2001 Robert Braswell 2002 Donald W. Vanlandingham 2002 Frank W. Chitwood 2002 H. Edward Roberts 2003 Jim B. Surjaatmadja 2003 James R. Holland Jr. 2003 Kent E. Patterson 2004 J. D. “Denny” Carreker Jr. 2004 Steven D. Hofener 2004 David Kyle 2004 Eddie M. Jones 2004 Neal E. Jones 2005 James Brooks Cummins 2005 Gordon E. Eubanks Jr. 2005 Behrokh Khoshnevis 2006 Sanjiv Sidhu 2006 James L. Vining 2006 Jack B. ReVelle 2006 Gary A. Pope 2007 Rand Elliott 2007 Michael Damore 2007 Leslie Priebe 2008 Ronald L. Hoffman 2008 Donald D. Humphreys 2008 Samir A. Lawrence 2008 Ronnie Morgan 2009 Charles Kridler 2009 Meemong Lee 2009 A. Joe Mitchell Jr. 2009 Sridhar Mitta 2009 Richard Weidner 2010 Ray O. Johnson 2010 Jerry Banks

THOMAS W. BRITTON JR.

Thomas W. Britton Jr. graduated from Oklahoma State University with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1966 and completed his master’s degree in industrial engineering and management in 1968. Britton led the acquisition of and directed multi-million-dollar global projects to formulate enterprise strategy, develop information technology plans, optimize resource management and design and implement integrated business processes to improve enterprise resource planning and execution.

Britton served as a lead partner in the national, world class, manufacturing practice, Arthur Young & Company, and was the practice leader for the West Region Energy Consulting Practice. He was also the managing partner of the Orange County Office Consulting Practice for eight years. He led multidiscipline consulting service teams for clients including Florida Power and Light, Gray Line Tours, LA Gear (now Sketchers), the California Division of Highways, the Alexandria Egypt Sanitation Treatment Department and Northrop Grumman’s Aircraft Division.

After 20 years at Arthur Young & Company, Britton spent the next 15 years as a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers during which time he served in many different client leadership and internal organizational roles for the firm.

He led the multi-industry West Region Products Consulting Practice, serving high technology, consumer products and retail clients including Allergan, Nike, Levi, Warner Brothers, PetSmart and Disney. During this time, he served on America’s and the Global Products Industry Leadership Council. The scope of services ranged from strategic business planning, operational re-engineering and change management, to implementation of enterprise resource planning systems.

Following this, he was appointed the global chairman of the high technology consulting practice. The $750 million full-service practice provided business altering consulting support to clients such as IBM, Intel, Motorola, Hitachi, Panasonic, Toshiba, Nokia, Siemens, Dell, Compaq, Samsung, Western Digital, Hewlett Packard and Microsoft.

At the time of his retirement in 2003, he was the chief operating officer for the West Region Consulting Business, comprising of over 1,500 professional consultants.

Throughout his career, Britton was involved in numerous philanthropic, government and professional organizations. He was a member of the OSU Alumni Association Leadership Council, was president of the Orange County OSU Alumni Association chapter, was trustee for the Los Angeles Special Olympics, and was trustee of the Orange County Arts Council.

He has received many honors including being listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the West and Who’s Who in Industry. In 2016, he was inducted into the inaugural class of the OSU Cowboy Academy of Industrial Engineering and Management in recognition of his distinguished career. Additionally, Britton was recognized as the 2018 Outstanding Alumni for OSU’s College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology’s School of Industrial Engineering and Management.

2010 Juan Carlos Calderon 2011 Jeffrey Fisher 2011 Lakshmaiah Ponnala 2011 Enos Stover 2011 Paul Liao 2012 Wilson Shoffner 2012 Calvin Vogt 2012 Jerry Winchester 2012 Cassie Mitchell 2013 Kenneth E. Case 2013 Harvey B. Manbeck 2013 Rixio Medina 2013 Robert Schaefer 2013 Rick Webb 2014 Debbie Adams 2014 Alan Brunacini 2014 Harold Courson 2014 Decker Dawson 2014 Johann Demmel 2014 Jeff Hume 2014 David Timberlake 2014 Janet Weiss 2015 Jack Corgan 2015 Shrikant Joshi 2015 Ed Stokes 2015 Rao Surampalli 2016 Mark Brewer 2016 Ann Oglesby 2017 Legand Burge Jr. 2017 Jack Goertz 2017 John Klopp 2017 Gary Ridley 2017 Eric Woodroof 2018 Ali Fazel 2018 Brian C. Price 2018 Edward L. Shreve 2019 Jim Hasenbeck 2019 Rick Muncrief 2019 Charles Reimer 2019 Lyndon Taylor 2020 Mark Sutton 2020 Tom Britton 2020 Huan Nguyen 2020 Steve Searcy