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The Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Selection Committee has announced the 2020 BEYA winners for the Dave Barclay Affirmative Action, Career Achievement, Community Service, Education Leadership – K-12 Promotion of Education, Educational Leadership – College-Level Promotion of Education, Lifetime Achievement Award, Most Promising Engineer, Outstanding Technical Contribution, Professional Achievement, Research Leadership, Senior Technology Fellow, Student Leadership, Technical Sales and Marketing, and more.
Legacy awards include the Linda Gooden Legacy Award for Entrepreneurship, the Albert J. Edmonds Legacy Award in Federal IT, the Joe N. Ballard Legacy Award for Public Engineering Services, the Rodney C. Adkins Legacy Award for Business Transformation, the Dr. John Brooks Slaughter Legacy Award for Higher Education and Leadership, the Anthony R. James Legacy Award in the Utilities category, the William R. Wiley Award for Research, and the Walt W. Braithwaite Award for Aviation.
Awards will be presented at the BEYA STEM Conference, February 13-15, 2020 in Washington, DC.
The recipients of the 2020 Black Engineer of the Year Awards are:
BLACK ENGINEER OF THE YEAR AWARDS in 2020
BLACK ENGINEER OF THE YEAR LTG Bruce T. Crawford U.S. Army Chief Information Officer/G-6 United States Army
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT IN GOVERNMENT
Dr. Kandis Y. Boyd Deputy Director, Office of Weather and Air Quality National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Clayton Turner Deputy Center Director NASA Langley Research Center
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT IN INDUSTRY
Marcos Purty Plant Executive Director General Motors
Carolyn Nichols Director, Logistics - Sustainment Programs, V-22 Osprey The Boeing Company
COMMUNITY SERVICE IN GOVERNMENT
Stephanie Kelly Jordan Engineer Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic
COMMUNITY SERVICE IN INDUSTRY
Debra Curry Engineer IV - Systems Engineering Bell
Kamani Padayachee Business Process Analyst Boston Scientific Corporation
DAVE BARCLAY AWARD for AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Gwendolyn Doss Software Engineering Manager The Boeing Company
Major Thomas Bishop Project Engineer U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP– COLLEGE-LEVEL PROMOTION OF EDUCATION
Dr. Sylvia Thomas Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering University of South Florida
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP – CORPORATE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION
Dr. Dorian G. Newton Director, Technical Services Huntington Ingalls Industries, Technical Solutions Division
GEM OUTSTANDING YOUNG ALUMNUS/GEM STUDENT LEADERSHIP
Samuel Williams, Jr. Principal Mechanical Engineer Northrop Grumman
MOST PROMISING ENGINEER IN GOVERNMENT
Dr. Sean Spence International Strategy Consultant U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
LT Jaleesa Harrigan RX Propulsion Division Officer USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)
MOST PROMISING ENGINEER IN INDUSTRY
Dr. Monique Farrell Principal Materials Process Engineer Northrop Grumman
Dr. Mark McKelvin, Jr. Senior Engineering Specialist The Aerospace Corporation
MOST PROMISING SCIENTIST
Dr. Kimberly Steward Discovery Chemistry Fungicide Group Leader Corteva Agriscience
OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTION IN GOVERNMENT
Demica Ware Cybersecurity/Interoperability Technical Expert Department of Defense/United States Air Force
OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTION IN INDUSTRY
Dr. Nandi Leslie Engineering Fellow Raytheon Company
Christopher Reid Associate Technical Fellow The Boeing Company
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT IN GOVERNMENT
Sheana Walters General Engineer Missile Defense Agency
Phillip Baptiste Project Manager, Maritime Tactical Command and Control System Naval Information Warfare Center-Pacific
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT IN INDUSTRY
Lara Suarez Principal Cyber Operations Engineer The MITRE Corporation
Kelly Lierzer Associate Director of Project Engineering, Adaptive Military Exhaust Programs United Technologies Corporation - Pratt & Whitney
RESEARCH LEADERSHIP
Carl Fonville, P.E. Staff Development Engineer General Motors
SENIOR INVESTIGATOR
Dr. Francois Ntone Senior Technical Adviser Cummins Inc.
TECHNICAL SALES & MARKETING
Kennedy Pereira Technical Sales Director AT&T
LEGACY AWARDS
Michael Dawson Information Systems Supervisor General Dynamics Information Technology
Myron Fletcher Sr. Senior Flight Test Engineer The Boeing Company
Kevin Goncalves Engineer Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport
William Green Senior Technical Staff Member IBM Supply Chain Engineering
MAJ Albert LeCounte Major US Army Special Operations Command
Thomas Peeples Senior Technical Project Manager, Aviation The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Jesse Peoples, Jr. Chief Security Architect Leidos
Corey Randolph R&D Engineer Nissan Technical Center North America
Audrell Samuels Subcontract Administrator Sr. Lockheed Martin Corporation
Kierra Smith Senior Software Engineer Walmart Information Security Engineering
Nnennaya Udochu Analog Engineer Intel Corporation