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| Chinese Engineers to Honor Three Indian Americans | | By RICHARD SPRINGER | | | indiawest.com | February 12, 2009 02:51:00 PM |
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Three Indian American engineers and scientists will receive “Asian American of the Year” awards Feb. 21 from the Chinese Institute of Engineers USA, a prominent engineering society in North America.
Among 15 Asian Americans being honored are: Ray Harishankar, chief technical officer at IBM Global Business Services; Jayant “Jay” D. Patel, a technical fellow at Boeing; and Satish Reddy, executive director of process engineering at Fluor Corp. in Southern California.
 The engineers and scientists are being honored for outstanding contributions to industries and for their entrepreneurial spirit and leadership acumen.
Roger Tsien, the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and a professor at the University of California, San Diego, will receive the “Distinguished Science and Technology” award. Dr. Jeong Kim, president of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, will be given a “Distinguished Lifetime Achievement” award.
“Our organization is proud to honor these distinguished individuals whose knowledge, leadership, and efforts have made a positive impact in our communities and throughout the world,” said Dr. An-Yu Kuo, president of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of CIE/USA.
Local CIE board member Cesar Ho told India-West that the national organization, founded in 1917, now has six chapters nationwide. The annual dinner, part of a two-day program of seminars and other events in celebration of National Engineers Week, typically draws between 200 and 300 people, he said.
Many of the nominees were nominated by their employers. This year the U.S. Navy nominated five individuals, with only one selected. The Navy will send a delegation of more than 20 people, including two rear admirals, to the dinner, Ho said.
Harishankar, an IBM Fellow – the highest technical position at IBM – joined the company as a consulting IT architect in 1999. He was named executive in charge of IBM’s Architecture and Technology Center of Excellence in 2000, where he headed a team of over 200 software architects.
Appointed to the IBM Academy of Technology in 2003, Harishankar helped establish IBM global business solutions centers in India and China.
A former chief architect at American Online, principal software engineering at CompuServe and software developer at HCL India, he has an M.S. in computer science from Ohio State University and an M.S. in physics from Madras University.
Reddy, who joined Fluor in 1988 as a senior process engineer, is an expert in removal of carbon dioxide from gaseous streams in various de-carbonization processes. His team is working on a project to retrofit a carbon dioxide capture and compression facility to reduce emissions.
He holds three patents in the area of carbon dioxide capture and purification and another three in syngas processing. Five other patents are pending.
In the mid-1990’s, Reddy was a process director leading a project to manufacture Olestra, a non-fat cooking oil made by Proctor and Gamble. In 2002, he managed Fluor’s carbon dioxide capture technology.
Reddy has a B.S. in chemical engineering from University of Madras and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from University of Bath, U.K.
Patel is a technical fellow at Boeing in the field of composites, plastics and elastomeric technologies. A fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineering International and the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering, he holds 31 patents, with four pending.
Patel’s awards include the Forrest McFarland award, the Boeing Corporate Excellence Engineer award and the Marvin Whitlock award.
He authored the Boeing non-metallic corporate design handbook and has mentored or trained engineers and mechanics from Boeing, other airlines and the company’s suppliers
Patel has an M.S. from the University of Baroda and did post-graduate research at Drexel University.
The CIE awards banquet will be held at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, Calif. For tickets, call An-Yu Kuo, (408) 679-1783. |
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