Dr. Shirley Jackson, First Woman to be Named Black Engineer of the Year in Award's Fifteen Year History.

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Black Engineer of the Year
Shirley Ann Jackson,Ph.D., President
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Affirmative Action
Lynne C. Bracker, Ph.D., Air-to-Air & Land Combat Systems Engineering Department, Raytheon Missile Systems Company

Career Achievement in Government
Donald J. Campbell, Center Director
NASA Glenn Research Center

Career Achievement in Industry
Donald E. Goodwin, Vice President - Scientific Laboratories/Proving Grounds
DaimlerChrysler Corporation

Career Achievement in Industry
Clifton J. Charlow, Senior Manager - Engineering Programs
Raytheon Company

Community Service
Vonda B. Rhodes, Spiral 2.5 Release Manager
Lockheed Martin Management and Data Systems

Community Service
Clinton J. Brown, Regional Area Manager - Facilities
General Motors Corporation

Corporate Promotion of Education
Torrence Robinson, DSP University Program Manager
Texas Instruments, Inc.

GEM Student Leadership
Amin R. Holmes, Masters Student
Georgia Institute of Technology/The MITRE Corporation

Most Promising Engineer or Scientist in Industry
Tonya M. Cunningham, Embedded Software Engineer
The Boeing Company

Outstanding Technical Contribution in Government
Vernol Battiste, Research Psychologist
NASA Ames Research Center

Outstanding Technical Contribution in Industry
Alfred O. Awani, Director
The Boeing Company

Professional Achievement in Government
Jesse B. Kingg, Operations Officer
United States Navy

Professional Achievement in Industry
Anthony L. Thornton, Ph.D., Senior Manager of Strategy Deployment
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company

Student Leadership
Clifton S. Martin, Undergraduate Student
Morgan State University

Technical Sales and Marketing
Joseph D. McGhee, Executive Vice President
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Technical Sales and Marketing
Stephany J. Head, Ph.D., Director of Strategic Planning
EDS

Lifetime Achievement Award 
Dr. Frederick S. Humphries, President
Florida A&M University



Deans' Breakfast
Award Category Winners

Most Promising Engineer or Scientist in Government
Danyetta G. Fleming, Project Manager
U.S. Army CECOM

Promotion of Higher Education
Horace K. Moo-Young, Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Lehigh University


Special Recognition Honorees
Each year, the competition for Black Engineer of the Year Awards intensifies, as more and more accomplished professionals vie for recognition of their achievements. All are worthy of national acknowledgment, but none are more deserving of our honors that this group of Special Recognition honorees. Through their technical education, continuous dedication to their careers and companies, and commitment to giving back to their communities, these achievers demonstrate the tremendous growth of African-American success in technology.

Leona Green, Worldwide ASP Customer Relationship Management Manager
Texas Instruments, Inc.

Darrell L. Davis, Laboratory Director
The Drug Enforcement Administration

Gregory L. Johnson, Power Technology Analyst
US Air Force

Andre Thornton, Operations Engineer II 
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company

Jo Ann W. Charleston, Chief, Office of Education Programs
NASA Glenn Research Center

John O. Ford, Manager, Intelligence Electronic Warfare Systems
TRW Systems & Information Technology Group

Norris C. Mitchell, Supervisor
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center

Nigel A. Ziyad, Computer Engineer
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Anthony N. Okafor, P.E., Bridge Engineer
Texas Department of Transportation