HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES 1999 Black Engineer of the Year Dean’s Award
GEN. JOHNNIE WILSON, (RET.) President & CEO, JWil LLC General Johnnie Wilson is a retired United States Army four star general who served as commanding general, U. S. Army Materiel Command. Gen. Wilson entered the army in August 1961 as an enlisted soldier, attaining the rank of staff sergeant before attending Officer Candidate School (OCS). On completion of OCS in 1967, he was com- missioned a second lieutenant in the Ordnance Corps. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the Univer- sity of Nebraska at Omaha. He also holds a Master of Science degree in logistics management from the Florida Institute of Technology. His mili- tary education includes completion of the Ordnance Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the Army Command and General Staff College, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. General Wilson commanded three times at the company level, followed by command of a supply and services company in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, and B Company 123rd Maintenance Battalion with the 1st Armored Division in Europe. He served at every level of command, including as the deputy commanding general of the army‚s largest and most diverse logistics unit. Based on his wide experience with leading soldiers, he was selected to command the Ordnance Center and School responsible for the training and professional development of thousands of soldiers, non commis- sioned officers and officers every year. Following this successful assign- ment, he took responsibility for resource and personnel management of a workforce with over 80,000 military and civilian members. General Wilson is a founding chair of the Black Engineer of the Year Awards Stars and Stripes Committee.
2007 Scientist of the Year
WOODROW WHITLOW, JR., PH.D. Associate Administrator for Mission Support, NASA Headquarters
Dr. Whitlow was the winner in the government catego- ry for the 1989 Black Engineer of the Year Awards. In 2007, he was presented with the Scientist of the Year award at the Minorities in Research Science Conference annual “Emerald Honors Gala,” held in Baltimore, Maryland. The Scientist of the Year award represents a recognition of merit, broad effect on people in many disciplines, and value to society as a whole. A rocket scientist and CEO of one of the largest federal information technology agencies, Dr. Whitlow’s ca- reer experience cuts across a variety of NASA programs. He has served as director of critical technologies in the Office of Aeronautics at NASA Headquarters, deputy director of the aeronautics program, chief of the Structures Division at NASA’s Langley Research Center, and director of research and technology at NASA Glenn, where he returned as center director in 2005. Under his leadership from September 2003 to December 2005, his workforce at NASA’s John F. Ken- nedy Space Center was the primary group responsible for preparing the Space Shuttle system for its return to flight. As NASA Glenn’s director of research and technology, the center won more awards than all the NASA centers combined. As NASA Glenn’s director of research and technology, the center won more awards than all the NASA centers combined. The first African American recipient of the Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, he joined the US space program in 1979 as a research scientist at Langley Research Center. He has written nearly 40 technical papers, most in the areas of unsteady transonic flow and aero elasticity.
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