February 16, 2013 - February 22, 2013, The Afro-American B1 Honorees at this year’s event included: Black Engineer of the Year Freeman Hrabowski, III UMBC President Career Achievement-Government G. Derrick Hinton Principal Deputy Director, Test Resource Management Center Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Department of Defense Career Achievement-Industry Alicia Boler-Davis Vice President, Global Quality and U.S. Customer Experience General Motors Robert L. Curbeam, Jr. Vice President, Mission Assurance, Quality & Raytheon Six Sigma Raytheon Company Community Service Rhonda Thomas General Engineer Federal Aviation Administration Diversity Leadership-Government Barbara Miller, Ed.D., LCSW Director, Office of Diversity & Equal Opportunity NASA Ames Research Center Diversity Leadership-Industry Patricia L. Lewis Vice President, Human Resources Information Systems and Global Solutions Lockheed Martin Corporation J. Anthony Wingate Manager, Subsystems and Components Quality Engineering Sandia National Laboratories Lifetime Achievement General Dennis L. Via Commanding General U.S. Army Materiel Command United States Army Most Promising Engineer-Government Tonya Bazemore Architect U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Moses Nii Kpakpo Mingle Chief of Electronic Warfare Systems Ground Branch Communications Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center U.S. Army Most Promising Engineer-Industry Richard A. Johnson Engineering Systems Operator The Boeing Company Terrell D. Neal, Ph.D. Senior Electrical Engineer II Raytheon Company Outstanding Technical Contribution– Industry Jama A. Mohamed Senior Principal Systems Engineer Raytheon Company Donnell Walton, Ph.D. Manager World-Wide Applications Engineering Gorilla Glass Corning Incorporated Pioneer Award Shan Cooper Vice President & General Manager Lockheed Martin Corporation Cynthia M. Shelton Vice President General Dynamics Lauren C. States Vice President, Chief Technology Officer IBM Corporate Strategy IBM Corporation President’s Award Theodore Colbert, III Vice President, Information Technology Infrastructure The Boeing Company Marachel L. Knight, PE, PMP Vice President, Program Management AT&T Services Inc. Professional Achievement-Government Omarr Tobias Operations Officer, 2nd Naval Construction Regiment Civil Engineer Corps U.S. Navy Professional Achievement-Industry Roy Foreman Electrical Engineer Manager Northrop Grumman Corporation Samer A. Saleh Director, Planning and Services, Operations Strategy Abbott Diagnostics Promotion of Education Bobby L. Wilson, Ph.D. L. Lloyd Woods Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Shell Oil Endowed Chaired Professor of Environmental Toxicology Texas Southern University Student Leadership – Graduate level Je’aime (Jamie) Powell Grid Manager/Graduate Researcher/Network Analyst Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and Research Student Leadership-Undergraduate Nahom Tewolde FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Technical Sales and Marketing Eric L. Anderson Director, Integrated Business Planning The Boeing Company Keith L. Coleman Structural Design Engineer CH2M HILL Visionary Award Philip D. Benson, Jr. PE, PMP Vice President Water Business Group CH2M HILL Larry Williams Director, Interior Engineering Systems and Components Chrysler Group LLC A collection of the nation’s brightest professional and student minds in science, technology, engineering and mathematics gathered at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. Feb. 7 for the annual Black Engineer of the Year Award (BEYA) STEM Conference. The event, which drew nearly 10,000 participants, recognizes the past and present contributions of Blacks in STEM fields. Photos by Rob Roberts Byron Green, head of Manufacturing Engineering at the Chrysler Group Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Gen.(Ret.) William “Kip” Ward and his wife, Joyce Community Service award winner Rhonda Thomas, general engineer of the Federal Aviation Administration J. Anthony Wingate of Sandia National Laboratories and J. Stephen Rottler, Ph.D Gen. (Ret.) Johnnie Wilson Generals Dennis Via, Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command and Lloyd Austin III, Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Patricia Lewis, Vice president of Human Resources, Lockheed Martin Charlene Austin(center) and Brig. Gen.(Ret.) Belinda Pinckney(right) with guest BEYA attendees A stirring selection entertains the guests Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III chats with participants.