BLACK ENGINEER OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS Educational Leadership
MORDECHAI LEVIN Executive Director, Masterflight Foundation Mordechai Levin has served in the Air Force Auxiliary
Civil Air Patrol for more than a decade. He has been active in the development of formal and informal aerospace and STEM programs for about as long. Since he was introduced to the Civil Air Patrol in 1998—through an opportunity to provide flight instruction and aerospace education labs at Chicago’s Midway Airport—he has shared the thrill and enchantment of flight with diverse students. One of his first went on to become the Air Force Academy’s 2003 vice president and an F-16 fighter pilot assigned to the 13th Fighter Squadron at Misawa Air Base in Japan. In 2006, Mr. Levin, together with a team of leaders in education and social change, launched Masterflight Foundation. Their goal is to recruit next generation pilots, astronauts, engineers, teachers and scientists. As chair of the Civil Air Patrol Diversity committee, Mr. Levin leads a team of diversity champions to achieve, within this decade, a mem- bership, as well as leadership, that will include 23,000 K-12 cadets and that will be a proportional representation of the entire U.S. population in gender, race and ethnicity. As chair of the Black Engineer of the Year Alumni K-20 Com- mittee, Mr. Levin is leveraging Black Engineer of the Year Awards to increase the throughput of STEM professionals from pre-school through university. In 2008, he received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Barry M. Goldwater Educator of the Year award for his commitment to increasing access to aerospace education and careers.
Educational Leadership
MARCOS STEPHENS Manager, Training Programs, Northrop Grumman Corporation
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Marcos Stephens is responsible for the training, education and professional development of more than 2,000 employees in the ground systems business unit (GSBU) of the Northrop Grumman Information Systems sector. His successful manage- ment of the GSBU program led to its expansion to support another division’s training activities, which includes 4,500 employees in 23 states and six overseas locations. To help foster retention and recruitment, he incorporated learning opportu- nities from weekly lunch and learn sessions to engineering, architecture, and framework courses catering to a geographi- cally dispersed population. One of his major accomplishments is the set-up of an on-site computer science systems engineer- ing graduate degree program with University of Denver. The program provides all GSBU engineers opportunities to study and research new technologies while applying their learning to real world engineering challenges. Building on this success, he led the establishment of another graduate program with Stevens Institute of Technology. Systems engineering is one of the busi- ness unit’s core capabilities and these educational and research programs are vital to growth and success. Mr. Stephens has also made a significant impact in the community with his support of the Aurora Public School District STEM program, among other P-20 education-industry efforts. He has taught a college prep course on engineering disciplines to 11-12th grade students, led physics and engineering hands-on activities, plus flight simula- tions and demonstrations. As team mentor/coach, he participated in the 2010 Conference on Education & Industry Partnerships and Cyber Patriot Initiative, a national high school cyber secu- rity competition sponsored by Northrop Grumman.
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