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Engineering Resilience
The truest predictor of success across every imaginable spectrum is grit. Grit is versatile as a word, and as a characteristic. It can mean resilience, or it can mean physical roughness. Run your fingers over something with grit and you feel bumps. Run your life with grit and you soar higher with every obstacle you conquer. Engineers understand this dual meaning, and it forms the basis of their work and the core of their triumphs. What is science if not trying, failing, fixing, and succeeding? How can you become everything you are if you don’t learn from mistakes, take risks, and regroup after disappointments? Engineering resilience. The interpretations and possibilities of that phrase, that responsibility, that directive, are limitless.
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INTRODUCTION OF THE HBCU ENGINEERING DEANS
Dr. Zheng Deng
Interim Dean, College of Engineering, Technology & Physical Sciences, Alabama A&M University
Dr. Michelle Rambo-Rodden Berry
Associate Dean for Student Services and Affairs
Dr. Joyce Shirazi
Dean, School of Engineering and Technology, Hampton University
Dr. John M. Anderson
Dean, College of Engineering and Architecture, Howard University
Dr. Wilbur Walters
Dean, College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Jackson State University
Dr. Oscar Barton
Dean, School of Engineering, Morgan State University
Dr. Stephanie Luster-Teasley
Interim Dean, College of Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University
Dr. Michael Keeve
Dean, College of Science, Engineering & Technology, Norfolk State University
Dr. Pamela Obiomon
Dean, College of Engineering, Prairie View A&M University
Dr. Patrick Mensah
Associate Dean, College of Sciences and Engineering
Dr. Lin Li
Interim Dean, College of Engineering, Technology & Computer Science, Tennessee State University
Dr. Heshmat Aglan
Dean, College of Engineering, Tuskegee University
Dr. Devdas Shetty
Dean, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, University of the District of Columbia
Dr. Yuanwei Jin
Chair, Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences
Dr. Dawit Haile
Dean, School of Engineering, Science and Technology, Virginia State University
Rhom Erskine
Vice President, Lockheed Martin Global Diversity and Inclusion
OUTSTANDING METAVERSE CHIEF TECHNOLOGY
OFFICER AWARD
Ernest L. Smiley
Chief Data Scientist & CISO, Kingdom Capital
f PRESENTER: JUANITA LOGAN
Vice President, Global Corporate Development, World Wide Technology
DR. FREEMAN HRABOWSKI III LEGACY AWARD
David Canada
Director of Business Operations, The Boeing Company
f PRESENTER: DAVID CADE, Vice President – USGS Business Transformation, The Boeing Company
Veronica Adewodu
Director of Finance, Actalent
GENERAL JOHNNIE WILSON LEGACY AWARD
William Croghan
Senior Principal, Systems Engineer BAE Systems
f PRESENTER: GENERAL JOHNNIE WILSON (RET.)
BEYA Stars & Stripes Chairman Emeritus U.S. Army
CAPT. DONNIE COCHRAN LEGACY AWARD
Camille Daniel
D.Eng., Cybersecurity Executive Leader, Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory
f PRESENTER: DR. ZHENG DENG
Interim Dean, College of Engineering, Technology & Physical Sciences
Alabama A&M University
f PRESENTER: DR. DAWIT HAILE
Dean, School of Engineering, Science and Technology
Virginia State University
Sponsor Speaker
f PRESENTER: RON WILLIAMS
Senior Vice President, General Manager, Buildings and Infrastructure, Americas
LINDA GOODEN LEGACY AWARD
Linda Dorsey
Director, Cyber Security Engineering, Privacy and Resiliency Operations, GDIT
f PRESENTER: JYLINDA JOHNSON
Vice President and General Manager, GDIT
DR. JAMES W. MITCHELL LEGACY AWARD
Sponsor Speaker
RMD Vice President of Engineering, Raytheon Technologies
Jared Gavin
Specialist Software Engineer, L3Harris Technology
f PRESENTER: DR. MICHELLE RAMBO-RODDENBERRY
Associate Dean for Student Services and Affairs
f PRESENTER: DR. MICHAEL KEEVE
Dean, College of Science, Engineering & Technology
Norfolk State University
GERALD JOHNSON LEGACY AWARD
Dale Killins
Engineering Supervisor – Steering Mechatronics and ElectroHydraulic Systems, Ford Motor Company
f PRESENTER: GERALD JOHNSON
Executive Vice President, Global Manufacturing and Sustainability, General Motors
Dr. Ursula Christion
Divisional Vice President Research & Development, Hematology, Abbott
ANTHONY R. JAMES LEGACY AWARD
Larry Laws
Director of Distribution System Operations, Baltimore Gas & Electric
f PRESENTER: DR. OSCAR BARTON
Dean, School of Engineering, Morgan State University
f PRESENTER: DR. YUANWEI JIN
Chair of the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences University of Maryland Eastern Shore
ADMIRAL MICHELLE HOWARD LEGACY AWARD
Capt. Timothy C. Moore Jr.
Executive Assistant to the Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command, U.S. Navy
f PRESENTER: DR. LIN LI
Interim Dean, College of Engineering, Technology & Computer Science, Tennessee State University
f PRESENTER: DR. JOYCE SHIRAZI
Dean, School of Engineering and Technology, Hampton University
Tracie Ellis
HBCU Lead on the Inclusion and Diversity Team, Apple, Inc.
RODNEY ADKINS LEGACY AWARD
Huntley Myrie
Vice President, Strategy and Business Development – Commercial Programs, Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.
f PRESENTER: DR. JOHN M. ANDERSON
Dean, College of Engineering and Architecture, Howard University
f PRESENTER: DR. WILBUR WALTERS
Dean, College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Jackson State University
Camille Chang Gilmore
Vice President of Human Resources, Global Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, Boston Scientific
David Harrold
Vice President, General Manager, Electronic Systems, BAE Systems
STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARDS
WALT W. BRAITHWAITE LEGACY AWARD
George Ndayizeye
Structural Analysis Engineer, The Boeing Company
f PRESENTER: HOWARD MCKENZIE, Vice President and Chief Engineer Boeing Commercial Airplanes
DR. LYDIA W. THOMAS LEGACY AWARD
How-Kai (Helga)Tong
Cyber Systems Engineer Technical Specialist, Peraton Inc
f PRESENTER: DR. LYDIA THOMAS
Pres. & CEO (Retired), Noblis
DR. WILLIAM R. WILEY LEGACY AWARD
Tammye Turner
DC Director Global Service Technical Operations –
Immunoassay and Clinical Chemistry, Abbott
f PRESENTER: DAVID HARDING
Director Global Service Technical Operations, Abbott
RESEARCH LEADERSHIP AWARD
Melody C. Bell
Deputy Director, environmental Management Consolidated Business Center, U.S. Department of Energy
Bianica Pires Ph.D.
Lead Modeling & Simulation Engineer, The MITRE Corporation
f PRESENTER: STEPHANIE TURNER
Vice President of Inclusion, Diversity, and Social Innovation , The MITRE Corporation
MOST PROMISING SCIENTIST IN INDUSTRY AWARD
Houda Kerkoub
Senior Aviation Data Scientist, The MITRE Corporation
f PRESENTER: STEPHANIE TURNER
Vice President of Inclusion, Diversity, and Social Innovation , The MITRE Corporation
MOST PROMISING SCIENTIST IN GOVERNMENT AWARD
Jamesa Stokes
Ph.D., Aerospace Materials Research Engineer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
f PRESENTER: DR. PATRICK MENSAH
Associate Dean, College of Sciences and Engineering
f DR. STEPHANIE LUSTER-TEASLEY
Interim Dean, College of Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University
MOST PROMISING SCIENTIST IN GOVERNMENT AWARD
Lyndsey McMillon-Brown, Ph.D.
Research Electrical Engineer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
f DR. STEPHANIE LUSTER-TEASLEY
Interim Dean of the College of Engineering
North Carolina A&T State University
STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARD PEER-REVIEWED
Erron Williams
Undergraduate Student, Prairie View A&M University
f PRESENTER: DR. PAMELA OBIOMON
Dean, College of Engineering, Prairie View A&M University
DEANS’ AWARD
Larry O. Harris
PEO-C41/PMW-120, Assistance Program Manager (APM) –Test & Evaluation (T&E), Naval Information Warfare Center
– Pacific (NIWC-PAC)
f PRESENTER: DR. HESHMAT AGLAN
Dean, College of Engineering, Tuskegee University
f DR. DEVDAS SHETTY
Dean, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, University of the District of Columbia
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