The 2019 Awards Banquet was held at Lake Union Café in Seattle, WA on June 6th. We had a special keynote speaker, Todd Barber, from the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in California. He kept the interest of our ~50 attendees for close to an hour and a half with his fascinating presentation about half a dozen Mars rovers JPL sent into space over the past 20 years, with many funny anecdotes and lessons-learnt for our younger engineers.
As a bonus Todd also played the piano before and after his keynote lecture!
After the keynote lecture we thanked the council members whose terms ended this year:
- Jen Treese as the past chair
- Tom Martig as chair
- Monal Shah as secretary
- Brent Pomeroy as advisory council member
- Ethan Brewer as advisory council member
- Stan Ferguson as advisory council member
And we welcomed 4 newly-elected council officers:
- Matthieu Masquelet as vice-chair-elect
- Abhi Krishnan as secretary-elect
- Jen Treese as treasurer-elect
- Simon Shuham as advisory council member
Finally, we recognized our 3 award winners (link to main page article):
- Greg Chandra as the Young Engineer of the Year
- Tim Hinerman as the STEM Advocate of the Year
- Olaf Weckner as the Industry Engineer of the Year