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Happy holidays!

The 33rd Black Engineer of the Year Awards gala, presented by Career Communications Group (CCG), will take place at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park in Washington D.C.  The ceremony will be held on February 9.

During the gala ceremony,  Anthony “Tony” Mitchell, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, will receive top honors as Black Engineer of the Year for his outstanding accomplishments in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

Other award categories recognize exceptional careers in government and industry, and actions that have energized both corporations and communities alike.

BEYA’s signature award events include the Modern-Day Technology Leaders Lunch, Stars & Stripes Dinner, HBCU Engineering Deans’ Breakfast, and the BEYA Gala.

2019 marks the 33rd anniversary of the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Global Competitiveness Conference.

BLACK ENGINEER OF THE YEAR

Anthony Mitchell
Executive Vice President
Booz Allen Hamilton

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT – GOVERNMENT

Walter Price
Scramjet Propulsion Technical Area Lead
Air Force Research Laboratory

Jason Kelly
Commander, Transatlantic Afghanistan District, USACE
U.S. Army, Army Corps of Engineers

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT – INDUSTRY

Leo Brooks
Vice President, Government Operations Boeing Defense, Space & Security
The Boeing Company

COMMUNITY SERVICE – GOVERNMENT

Fransua Thomas
Materials Research Engineer
NASA Glenn Research Center

COMMUNITY SERVICE – INDUSTRY

James Northern
Senior Project Leader
The Aerospace Corporation

Jennifer Turner
Manager
IBM

DAVE BARCLAY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

Akeem Iman-Jones
Human Resources Director, Boeing South Carolina
The Boeing Company

Vernecia Johnson
Director of Human Resource
Lockheed Martin Corporation

EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP – COLLEGE-LEVEL PROMOTION OF EDUCATION

Ronald Johnson
Professor/Fellow
Georgia Institute of Technology

EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP – CORPORATE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION

Viktorija Telbis
Director of Clinical Education
Boston Scientific Corporation

GEM OUTSTANDING YOUNG ALUMNUS/GEM STUDENT LEADERSHIP

Camarie Clark
Officer Trainee
U.S. Coast Guard

MOST PROMISING ENGINEER – GOVERNMENT

Wendy Okolo
Aerospace Research Engineer
NASA-Ames Research Center

Thomas West
Geotechnical Engineer
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

MOST PROMISING ENGINEER – INDUSTRY

Kimberly Cross
Manager, Systems Survivability Engineering
Northrop Grumman Corporation

Tiera Fletcher
Structural Design Engineer Space Launch System
The Boeing Company

MOST PROMISING SCIENTIST

Vimbai Chikwana
Associate Research Scientist
Dow AgroSciences

OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTION – GOVERNMENT

Alex Richards
Director, Test Policy & Controls
Missile Defense Agency

OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTION – INDUSTRY

Raenaurd Turpin
Senior Manager Strategic System Architectures
The Boeing Company

Adrian Williams
Raytheon Company

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT – GOVERNMENT

Krystle McClain
Installation Environmental Program Director
Naval Facilities Engineering Command

Royce James
Associate Professor
U.S. Coast Guard Academy

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT – INDUSTRY

Arik Brown
Consulting System Architect
Northrop Grumman Corporation

Cedric Fletcher
Senior Engineering Manager
Raytheon Company

RESEARCH LEADERSHIP

Warren Davis
Principal Member of Technical Staff, R&D S&E Computer Science
Sandia National Laboratories

SENIOR TECHNOLOGY FELLOW

Clifford Macklin
Engineering Fellow/Cyber Security Subject Matter Expert
Raytheon Company

STUDENT LEADERSHIP – GRADUATE

Crystal Green
Ph.D. Candidate, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences
University of Michigan

TECHNICAL SALES AND MARKETING

Gerald Gaskins
Vice President, Capture Executive
Leidos

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