Awards for the Huntsville IEEE Section National Engineers Week Awards Banquet held on February 20, 2010
Congratulations to all of our 2010 National Engineers Week award winners. Once again we received wonderful nominations from our volunteers, student members and local IEEE members; and once again, we gather to honor the very cream of the crop. Those that we honor today are recognized by their peers as truly outstanding individuals. On behalf of the IEEE Huntsville Section, please allow me to express our gratitude for your leadership and your commitment to excellence.
Sincerely,
Ron Ogan, Awards Chair – IEEE Huntsville Section
Courtney Spivey, Chair – IEEE Huntsville Section
Student of the Year – AAMU IEEE Student Branch
Brandon Lewis is a junior in Electrical Engineering at Alabama A&M. He served five years in the U.S Army as a sniper. His assignments include serving in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He co-oped at International Paper for one year and saved the company over $70,000 by programming touch screens for PLC’s. He enjoys building his own electric guitar pedals and enjoys building robots in his spare time. Brandon wants to work in the development of robotic prosthetics for injured soldiers. He is currently the Vice President of A&M’s IEEE Student Branch.
Student of the Year – UAH IEEE Student Branch
Renée is an IEEE Student Member and active with the UAH Student Branch, senior in Electrical Engineering who is excited to graduate in May 2010. She has been very involved with several organizations at UAH – Society of Women Engineers, National Society of Leadership and Success, Engineering Student Council. She is member of the UAH Hardware team and assisted in building all of the practice and competition fields for the Hardware competition. She also has been able to compete with the Hardware team at SoutheastCon 2009 and again this year in 2010.
Outstanding Service
Buddy Bishop, PhD, IEEE Senior Member
Senior Technical Consultant, Systems Studies and Simulation, Inc. (2002-Present): Provides technical advice in the areas of missile system engineering with primary emphasis on missile system integration activities, design and development on missile seekers and sensors, system level counter-countermeasures, and technical liaison with the threat community.
B. S. Electrical Engineering, Auburn University
M. S. Electrical Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville
M. S. Administrative Science (Public Policy), University of Alabama in Huntsville
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Outstanding Engineer – Joint Award
Allen Stults, IEEE Member
Allen has been the lead AMRDEC researcher on explosive pulsed power. Explosive pulsed power is the conversion of the chemical energy of high explosives into electrical energy. This enables the development of ultra compact pulsed power sources for munitions.
He graduated from West Point in 1979 with a BS in Applied Sciences and Engineering (Nuclear Engineering) and was commissioned into the Ordnance Corps. He obtained a MBA from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1987.He obtained a MS from UAH in 1998. He has worked the past 5 years at AMRDEC developing pulsed power and High Power Microwave sources
Larry Altgilbers, PhD, IEEE Senior Member
US Army Space & Missile Defense Command Research Engineer and leading developer and with his independent collaborator, Allen Stults in the field of RF munitions. This small, but very interesting field basically replaces the explosive fill of a bomb, shell, or cartridge with a high-power RF single-pulse generator.
B.S. Physics, Northeast Missouri University
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama at Huntsville
Ph.D. Semiconductor Physics Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania
Outstanding Educator Award
Charles Corsetti, PhD, Professor UA-Huntsville
IEEE member for 40 years
Assistant Chair and a Lecturer in the Electrical and Computer UAH Engineering Department Dr. Corsetti served as a commissioned officer in the Air Force for 24 years in the Development Engineering career field.
Bachelor, Electrical Engineering Degree (EE) at Manhattan College.
M.S. and Ph.D. in EE the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
