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Follow on Google News | 30th BEYA STEM Conference To Attract Over 8,000 STEM Leaders, Students, Employers, ProfessionalsPhiladelphia to host the largest gathering of individuals committed to increasing the percentage of people from historically under-represented communities in the technology workforce.
By: Career Communications Group As the conference reaches its significant 30-year milestone, events and presentations aim to address the inequities of diversity in technology and science as a means for increasing awareness, improving attitudes, and expanding opportunities for the current and future workforce. Today, the United States graduates fewer engineers when compared to countries like China and India, at 70,000, 600,000, and 350,000 respectively. If continued, this trend will diminish our global power. Combine this with the fact that minority students are more than twice as likely to switch to other majors as are white and Asian students. In fact in 2006, just 5.2 percent of the engineering degrees awarded to U.S. citizens went to African Americans. This event-packed three-day event unites more than 8,000 industry entrants and professionals including college representatives and leaders embodying the upper echelon in STEM. Also included on the agenda is the Black Engineer of the Year awards ceremony recognizing the industry’s most notable achievements and accomplishments in 2015. Award recognition continues to be a powerful avenue for employers looking to acknowledge and applaud the achievements of minorities in STEM disciplines within their organizations. The recipients of the 2016 Black Engineer of the Year Awards are: Black Engineer of the Year Christopher Jones Corporate Vice President & President, Technical Services Northrop Grumman Corporation Lifetime Achievement John Tracy Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President, Engineering, Operations & Technology The Boeing Company Thomas P. Bostick Command/Chief of Engineers Headquarter U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Community Service – Government Ken Holley Recruiting Specialist Sandia National Laboratories Afrachanna Butler Research Physical Scientist US Army Engineer Research and Development Center Community Service – Industry Monique Smith Mission Excellence Engineer Northrop Grumman Aerospace Sector Community Service – Industry Charlie Dean Senior Multi-Disciplined Engineer Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems Dave Barclay Affirmative Action Charles Williams Senior Small Business Specialist NASA Johnson Space Center Most Promising Engineer – Government Renee Reynolds Engineering Manager, SEA 21 Fleet Technical Naval Sea Systems Command Delante Moore Operations Research Analyst United States Army Most Promising Engineer - Industry Larry Laws Manager System Analysis and Support BGE, an Exelon Company Most Promising Engineer – Industry Jerome Forbes Senior Systems Engineer II Raytheon Outstanding Technical Contribution – Government Ernest Yelder Lead Cybersecurity Analyst NAVSEA Outstanding Technical Contribution – Industry Shawanna Phillips Executive Director of Technology and Service Management AT&T President's Award Kim McCalla Assistant Vice President Morgan State University Professional Achievement – Government Angela Holmes Program Manager, Global Deployment Program Office Missile Defense Agency Professional Achievement – Government Kelcey Shaw Battalion Executive Officer U.S. Army Corps of Engineer, 249th Engineer Battalion Professional Achievement – Industry Jeffrey Chavis Assistant Group Supervisor Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab Professional Achievement – Industry Edwardo Gillison Multi-Function Engineering of Science, Senior Manager Lockheed Martin Corporation Technical Sales and Marketing Bob Goode Field Sales Support System Engineering Senior Staff Lockheed Martin Corporation Anbessie Yitbarek Regional Sales Director, NE Asia, Commercial Aviation Services The Boeing Company College-Level Promotion of Education Yacob Astatke Interim Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies Morgan State University Richard Tapia University Professor, Maxfield -Oshman Chair in Engineering Rice University Student Leadership Malachi Nichols Student University of Arkansas Special Recognition Tuba Aktaran-Kalayci Director Advanced Analytics, Big Data AT&T Thierry Starr Aviation Planner CH2M Hill Kristal Fears Global Manufacturing Product Responsible Manufacturing Engineering- Fiat Chrysler Automobiles John James, III Systems Engineer Senior Staff General Dynamics- Mission Systems Tonesha Smith Embedded Software Engineer Senior Lockheed Martin Corporation Tamara Crawford Advanced Technical Leadership Program Senior Lockheed Martin Corporation Erica McClain Ground Test- Acting DTGH Technical Lead Missile Defense Agency Derrick Cheston Chief, Systems Engineering & Architecture Division NASA Conrad James Principal Research Scientist Sandia National Laboratories Allen Compito General Manager, Electronics and Sensors Division The Aerospace Corporation David Cade Vice President, Contracting and Risk Management The Boeing Company Mark Braxton Construction Project Manager United States Coast Guard Yuanwei Jin Associate Professor University of Maryland Eastern Shore Andre Evans Midshipman First Class United States Naval Academy End
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