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Opening Remarks, Welcome, etc.
The Welcome: Good evening ladies and gentlemen; engineers and guests:
My name is …..Elizabeth Zureick, General Chair for NEW SD 2006,
representing the National Lead Society for this year –
Society of Women Engineers
I will be the MC this evening.
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First a little History about National Engineers Week:
This is the 55th Anniversary of National Engineers Week
National Engineers Week was founded in 1951 by the National Society
of Professional Engineers - NSPE to increase public awareness and
appreciation of the engineering profession. The Theme for Eweek this
Year is “Engineers Make a World of Difference”.
Engineers Week is always celebrated during the week of George
Washington's birthday. George Washington - Our nation's first
president was a military engineer and a land surveyor.
Today, Engineers Week is a formal coalition of more than 75
engineering, professional and technical societies, and more than 50
corporations and government agencies. The program is dedicated to
ensuring a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by
increasing understanding of and interest in engineering and technology
careers among young students and by promoting pre-college literacy in
math and science. Engineers Week also raises public understanding
and appreciation of engineers' contributions to society. National Cochairs for 2006 are the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and
Northrop Grumman Corporation.
In San Diego, the role of chair for the E-week banquet usually falls to a
representative of the national society that co-chairs e-week. As part of
its work for e-week, SWE has developed the program Connecting
Educators to Engineering – This program targets middle school
teachers, guidance counselors and school administrators with a
coordinated effort to interact directly with engineers. The program
includes training webcasts for volunteers, sponsoring electronic forums
offering educator-to-educator and educator-to-engineer dialogue, and
providing educational materials designed to build engineering concepts
into existing curricula. “Connecting Day” was held Wednesday,
February 22. Although developed as part of e-week activities, the
program will continue as an ongoing effort to assist educators in
encouraging middle school student to consider engineering as a career.
Details on this program are available through the Eweek web site.
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San Diego City Proclamation for National Engineers Week
I, JERRY SANDERS, the Thirty-fourth Mayor of the City of San Diego, do hereby
proclaim February 19-25, 2006, to be "NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK" in recognition
of the contributions of engineers and wishing them continued support in their efforts to
improve our world.
San Diego Country Proclamation for National Engineers
LET IT BE PROCLAIMED by Chairman Bill Horn, and all members of the San Diego
County Board of Supervisors on this Fourth week of February 2006 that they commend
the members of San Diego County Engineering Council in recognition of the
contributions of engineers throughout the county for their outstanding service, leadership
and commitment to area residents and businesses and do hereby declare February 19-25,
2006, to be "NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK" throughout the San Diego County
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I want to take this opportunity, while you finish your desert and beverage to
Recognize those who have made this NEW San Diego 2005 possible:
As I recognize each group please wave your hands, shout, hoot and holler:
Thank You Hosts and Sponsors
A very special thank you to Our Event Host for allowing us to use this
exceptional facility:
The University of San Diego Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice
And
University of San Diego, Dept. of Engineering, School of Business
Administration
Our Company Sponsors:
Hamilton Sundstrand Power Systems
Rick Engineering
Solar Turbines
URS Corporation
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NEW Banquet Patrons – Engineering Societies: [San Diego Sections or
Chapters]: [Give initials, followed by the full name]
American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics – AIAA
American Society of Civil Engineers – ASCE
American Society of Heating and Refrigeration Engineers – ASHRAE
American Society of Mechanical Engineers – ASME
American Society of Quality Engineers – ASQ
Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Engineers – AFCEA
California Society of Professional Engineers – CSPE
Construction Specification Institute – CSI
Consulting Engineers and Land Surveyors – CELSOC
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – IEEE
Institute of Industrial Engineers – IIE
International Council on Systems Engineers – INCOSE
Project Management Institute – PMI
Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineers – SAMPE
Society of Automotive Engineers – SAE
Society of Logistics Engineers – SOLE
Society of Manufacturing Engineers – SME
Society of Value Engineers – SAVE
Society of Women Engineers – SWE
Structural Engineers Association of California – SEA
The Materials Information Society- ASM
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Please Recognize and thank this year’s NEW SD Planning Committee – have
them stand up and clap:
Tom Kanneman
CSPE
Ken Discenza
CSPE
Akasha Kaur
Khalsa
Gerald Gerace
Phillip Young
Mark Webb
Jason Lemons
Warren Johnson
Jim Peterson
Peter Livingston
Kim Niles
SME
NEW SD Coord; USD Banquet Chair; Banquet Program;
Awards;
Finance Chair/Treas; Banquet Co-Chair; MATHCOUNTS;
Database
Gen Co-Chair; NEW SD Secretary; Web Pg
IEEE
ASME
ASCE
ASCE/YMF
AIAA
INCOSE
CSPE
ASQ
Awards Chair; Communications Chair
Society Rep; 2005 Gen. Chair
Society Rep; Proclamations
Mall Exhibit
Planning; Society Rep
Planning; Society Rep; Display Coord
MATHCOUNTS SD Chair
Society Rep; Web Pg; MATHCOUNTS
And finally we also recognize: The Engineers of Tomorrow here with us tonight:
(sponsored by various societies & industry):
Where are the Engineering majors from the local universities (SDSU, USD,
UCSD) and local colleges: Please stand and be recognized Let’s recognize these future engineers of tomorrow (Clap) – let’s hear it
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Further introductions.
I am pleased to introduce the Awards Committee Chairman, Dr. Gerald Gerace
to announce this year's awards.
National Engineers Week San Diego 2006
San Diego County Engineering Council – SDCEC Award Presentations:
Outstanding Engineer Award:
Leigh Merola – Raytheon
Leigh Merola is a Systems Engineering Manager for Raytheon,
Integrated Defense Systems in San Diego, CA. Leigh’s responsibilities
include combat system engineering development, implementing open
architectures, and managing program performance, schedules and
budgets on Systems of Systems programs for our U.S. Navy. She is
chairman of the engineering change control board ensuring proper
implementation of upgrades, modifications, and fixes to various systems
maintained and developed by Raytheon.
Within her 15 years
experience, Leigh also served in our Air Force in the communications,
computer, and satellite domain. Currently a Major in the AF Reserves,
Leigh acts as a liaison for students entering our Military Academies or
obtaining Reserve Officer Training Corps Scholarships for use at other
Colleges. Leigh graduated with a Systems Engineering Management
Masters degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA.
She also holds a Masters degree in Software Engineering from Southern
Methodist University, Dallas, TX (1998), and has a Bachelor of Science
degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy, CO (1991). The San Diego
engineering community recognizes Leigh Merola’s outstanding
contributions to engineering projects in San Diego County.
Outstanding Engineering Educator Award:
Charles Tu, Ph.D.
In 1999, as chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
Department, Professor Tu initiated the annual EUREKA (ECE’s
Undergraduate REsearch Konference & Assembly) event to enhance
undergraduate education. The goals of EUREKA are to provide a
professional setting for upper-division undergraduate students to
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practice writing and oral communication skills, and to provide an
opportunity for lower-division undergraduate students to see what they
can achieve in two or three years. Past EUREKA events have hosted
15-18 project presentations, and around 80 attended each event. In
2006 he plans to expand the 7th EUREKA to all disciplines in
engineering, Engineering Undergraduate REsearch Konference &
Assembly, and make it part of the national Engineering Week
celebration. As a co-director of TIES (Teams in Engineering Service),
Professor Tu revamped the curriculum of a course, Engineering 100,
Fundamentals of Team Engineering, where he coached students on
various aspects of working in teams, communication skills, project
management, and ethics.
The San Diego engineering community
recognizes Dr. Tu’s outstanding contributions to engineering education
and research in San Diego County.
Outstanding Engineering Project Award:
Dave Raglan
When it opened to the public on July 10, 2005, the Mission Valley East
(MVE) trolley line extension (i.e. the Green Line) closed a critical 5.9mile gap between the Blue and Orange trolley lines. First envisioned by
the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) more than 25 years ago, the
$506 million project provides San Diegans with increased mobility
within the busy Interstate 8 corridor. As one of four new stops being
built along the MVE extension, the San Diego State University (SDSU)
underground trolley station is already garnering local, state, and
national attention as a gem in the region’s transportation system. The
SDSU facility holds the distinction of featuring the first subterranean
trolley station and tunnel in San Diego. The other new stops along the
MVE extension are Grantville Station; Alvarado Hospital Medical
Center Station; and 70th Street Station. Each station has a selection of
site-specific public art. In addition, transit-oriented developments
(TODs) are planned along the route to co-locate residential and
commercial projects around Trolley stations. The MVE extension and
the new state-of-the-art trolleys are expected to generate more than
11,000 new Trolley trips a day, and enhance transportation capacity
and mobility within the busy Interstate 8 corridor. The project is also
projected to attract over 2.5 million new annual transit riders in the
region as a result of improved transit connectivity. The project includes
almost six miles of double track along with the overhead cantenary
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system that will power the cars, and signaling and communications
systems. There are eight bridges with a total length of more than two
miles, four stations, a tunnel more than three quarters of a mile long, a
220-foot signature bridge over a major arterial, and extension of an I-8
bridge over the new rail line. Approximately 60 percent of the new line
is constructed at grade or atop a one-mile-long triple cell box culvert.
Much of the at-grade section is cut into steep slopes above I-8 and this
work requires four miles of retaining walls. Firms involved in the
project include URS Corporation; Parsons; Berryman & Henigar;
Aguirre Surveying; Lawhart Engineers; Berggren & Associates; Katz &
Associates, Inc.; KTU+A; Lloyd Lindley, ASLA; Simon Wong
Engineering; and Washington Group. The San Diego engineering
community recognizes Mission Valley East Light Rail Extension as an
outstanding technical achievement.
Outstanding Engineering Service Award:
David Bernardin
David Bernardin was the Vice Chair, Technical Program for a
successful IEEE EMC/Safety Symposium in San Diego “EMC/Safety
Fest”. He was also the Program Chairman for a very successful IEEE
EMC one-day colloquium and exhibition titled “The Fundamentals of
EMC” with Doctor Clayton Paul. He also planned and executed a very
successful IEEE Awards Banquet with guest speaker Mr. Sergei
Sikorsky. David is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has been a valued
member of the IEEE for the past 31 years, serving in numerous
volunteer positions including Chair San Diego IEEE EMC Society, and
IEEE San Diego Section Chair. David is an (ATMB) Advanced
Toastmaster Bronze and has been a member of Toastmasters since
October of 1999. David is currently the President of CYMER
Toastmasters club San Diego. David is a Natural Vision Educator and
founder of “Eyesight Naturally” and is a member of Vision Educators.
The San Diego engineering community recognizes David Bernardin’s
years of selfless outstanding service to others.
Heather Kane
Heather Kane has been the chair of the Society of Women Engineers
San Diego County Chapter Speakers Bureau for several years. As chair,
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she receives requests from schools and other organizations for members
to speak at their schools or meetings. She contacts various members to
meet those requests. Heather has spoken at SWE student section
meetings. The Women's Initiative Network of the Raytheon site in San
Diego is one of a number of employee resource groups open to all
employees at the site. The group supports the vision of promoting and
facilitating tools and opportunities for female employees to enhance
their professional and personal skills, knowledge and abilities for
success. Heather was one of several women at the site who championed
the start-up of this group two years ago and has been very supportive of
the group’s activities, in particular the group’s support of the Raytheon
MS Walk team of which Heather is the team captain. Heather has been
the team captain for Raytheon's MS Walk for the last two years.
Largely through her efforts, the Raytheon team has exceeded their
fund-raising goal each year of their participation, including last year’s
goal of $10,000. The San Diego engineering community recognizes
Heather Kane’s years of selfless outstanding service to others.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------When the award presentations are concluded, ask for final round of applause for
the Award recipients.
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I have one Announcement
Tomorrow February 26th
We have a Discovering Engineering Mall Exhibit at Grossmont Center in La
Mesa
The exhibit Opens at 10:00 AM until 3:00 PM
It is a great way for the public to discover engineering through display and
contact with engineers.
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I am honored to announce our distinguished Keynote Speaker is Dr. David
Hayhurst, Dean of the College of Engineering at San Diego State
Dr. David T. Hayhurst began his term as the sixth Dean of the College
of Engineering in August 2002. He holds a Ph.D. and a bachelor's
degree in Chemical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute
and a master's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Prior to his position at SDSU, Hayhurst had
been Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of South
Alabama in Mobile, Alabama since January 1992. And before his
position at the University of South Alabama, Hayhurst served as chair
of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Cleveland State
University.
Dr. Hayhurst will speak on efforts, both nationally and locally, to make
engineering more fun and appealing so that the current crisis of
declining engineering enrollment can be reversed.
Please welcome Dr. Hayhurst
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We have a few minutes if there are any questions of the speaker.
At the end:
Thank you all for joining us for this great evening.
We wish you a safe journey home.
Please plan to join us again next year at National Engineers Week San Diego 2007.