2008 Women of Color Honorees
Technical Innovation
Jennifer Rosales, PE
Supervising Transportation Engineer &
Senior Professional Associate,
Parsons Brinckerhoff
BS–Civil Engineering, Oregon State University
In 2004, Jennifer Rosales won her company’s prestigious William Parsons Barclay Fellowship including eight
weeks of time compensation. She capped the year’s achievement by writing, Handbook for Livable Streets:
Setting Trends by Applying the Road Diet.
Rosales’ scholarly guide for elected officials, city planners, and community leaders, explains how to do a road diet, and it
comes complete with case studies. A road diet is a concept designed to reduce traffic lanes and use space efficiently, with alterna-
tives such as bike lanes, on-street parking, transit, and HOV lanes, depending on local priorities.
At Parsons Brinckerhoff, Rosales supervises multiple projects simultaneously, each with three to five-person teams. Projects
have included road diets and engineering in Washington, DC, Honolulu and Vancouver, as well as a project in Dubai, United
Arab Emirates.
Rosales, 36, was once on an undergraduate track prior to becoming a medical student. Her plans changed after she served an
internship with a transportation engineering and planning in Oregon. Rosales worked on “livable streets” and road building proj-
ects, and became hooked. Today, her near-term professional goals are: tackle more global projects and publish a third edition of
President’s Award President’s Award
Diana L. DeLaney Stephanie Hill
Chemical Engineer IV Vice President, Programs & Site Operations
Corning Inc. Lockheed Martin Electronics Systems
BS–Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
BS-Economics and Computer Science, University of Maryland
MS–Quality Management and Statistics, Loyola University
In more than 20 years at Lockheed Martin, Stephanie Hill
Diana DeLaney is a chemical and
has risen from an entry level software test engineer to vice
process engineer who sees her
president in the MS2 integrated defense technologies busi-
career field as having the ingredi-
ness line. She provides technical and strategic guidance
ents of a Sherlock Holmes mystery
on business efforts ranging from launching systems for the
— filled with intrigue and adventure.
military to commercial ship systems used in oil exploration to
chemical and biological test systems used in subways.
An internal consultant for operations
worldwide, she is dispatched for
Hill’s parents taught her to
periods ranging from two months to
always do her best. “As a
two years on missions to advance
student when I would score
solutions that keep the specialty
95, my father would ask
glass and ceramics innovator cutting
‘where are the other five
edge.
points?’ It became a constant
not to leave those five points
DeLaney says, “I am constantly changing assignments,
on the table,” says Hill, who
there’s always a new challenge.”
leaned toward accounting,
DeLaney, who has four Corning inventions protected as trade
but took a computer pro-
secrets, worked as an engineer at Amoco and Pfizer Pharma-
gramming course and never
ceuticals before joining Corning in 1992.
looked back.
Over the years, she says, she has learned that like Sherlock
To her peers, Hill, 43, is a
Holmes, engineers use their skills to solve mysteries. “We
dynamo: negotiating a multi-million dollar contract, serving
make things easier for people, come up with a set of steps
on a local civic board, or singing in the church choir. She also
to achieve an end,” she says, adding “but it doesn’t always
mentors engineers and others.
mean your work is going to be used — and that’s what’s re-
Another Lockheed priority is making sure everybody’s voice
ally important to know.”
is heard,” says Hill. The company lets workers know it hears
As the 2008 president of Corning’s Black Growth Council,
them through in-house publications, forums and a monthly
DeLaney is very active with diversity initiatives within Corning
online chat. This way, employees “can bring their ideas for-
and the surrounding community, including a newly formed
ward and get real time feedback,” Hill explains.
NSBE Jr. chapter in Elmira, NY. NSBE Jr. provides support
and guidance for aspiring young minority engineers.
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