2013 SME President Dennis Bray, PhD, FSME, wearing the Native American headdress presented to him by SME’s Oklahoma City Chapter 125. The presentation of a warbonnet is a compliment of the highest order, bestowed upon SME’s incoming presidents to remind them to always be brave in the face of adversity, strong during times of challenge and to embrace joy in its infinite shapes and forms.
2013 SME Officers and Directors
PRESIDENT Dennis S. Bray, PhD, FSME Contour Precision Group, LLC
PRESIDENT-ELECT Michael F. Molnar, FSME, CMfgE, PE National Institute of Standards and Technology
VICE PRESIDENT Wayne F. Frost, CMfgE John Deere Waterloo Works (retired)
SECRETARY/TREASURER Dean L. Bartles, PhD, FSME General Dynamics Corporation
Newly elected 2013 SME Board of Directors being sworn in by 2012 SME President LaRoux Gillespie (far left). From left to right: Edye S. Buchanan, CMfgT, Fives North American Combustion, Inc.; Thomas R. Kurfess, PhD, FSME, CMfgT, PE, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President; Joseph J. Beaman, ScD, University of Texas at Austin; Michael F. Molnar, FSME, CMfgE, PE, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Wayne F. Frost, CMfgE, John Deere Waterloo Works (retired); and Michael D. Packer, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.
DIRECTORS
Joseph J. Beaman, ScD University of Texas at Austin
Sandra L. Bouckley Eaton Corporation
Edye S. Buchanan, CMfgT Fives North American Combustion, Inc.
LaRoux K. Gillespie, Dr. Eng., FSME, CMfgE, PE Honeywell (retired)
Edward G. Halloran, LSME, CMfgE, PE HALCO Management Systems
Matthew L. Hilgendorf, CMfgT Caterpillar, Inc.
Elected and appointed
members of the 2013 SME Member Council (left to right): Vincent Howell, CMfgE, Corning Inc.; Dean Phillips, LINK Systems; Cary Rosenberg, CMfgE, Watts Water
Technologies, Inc.; Glenn Mattsson, Enphase Energy; Bonnie Knopf, Intrepid Plastics Manufacturing; Matthew Welle, Tegra Medical; Marie Laird, Luminex Molecular Diagnostics; Garret Hendrix, PE, Hendrix Engineering, Inc.; and Thomas Bridge, PhD, LSME, CMfgE, Western Illinois University. (Not pictured: Jeff Arnold, CMfgE, The Boeing Co. , and Brock Strunk, Epic Aircraft.)