BLACK ENGINEER OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS Engineer — Industry Most Promising
Onekki Christian Principal Systems Engineer Network Centric Systems Raytheon Company
systems engineer. Since she joined Raytheon as a new hire from Jackson State University in 2001, she has
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chalked up impressive accomplishments within her company and community. Through several Raytheon Six Sigma business man- agement efforts, she has saved the company $1 million. In 2010, her efforts in the modification of client systems architecture led to multi-million dollar funding and secured jobs for 30 engineers into June 2013. Recently, she was named anti-tamper lead for Raytheon’s Network Centric Systems business unit, with more than 13,700 employees. Additionally, she was recently promoted to Principal Engineer, another big achievement for someone to accomplish during the first ten years of their career. As a new en- gineer, Christian laid a strong foundation by seeking out mentor- ing and guidance from senior systems engineers who were subject matter experts in a variety of fields, including requirements management, cryptography, system integrity and system test. Christian’s initiative put her on the fast track, securing her a prized spot in Raytheon’s rotational Leadership Development Program. In addition to being the youngest participant, she was selected by her peers as a business lead for her team project. Her career continued to blossom when she was hand-picked to be part of a specialized team assembled to protect technology incorpo- rated into U.S. weapons and weapon systems. Anti-Tamper en- compasses the systems engineering activities intended to prevent and/or delay exploitation of critical technologies in U.S. weapon systems. These activities involve the entire life-cycle of systems acquisition, including research, design, development, implemen- tation, and testing of AT measures. As the anti-tamper expert for the Network Centric Systems unit, she leads activities to protect technologies in weapon systems from falling into enemy hands. These activities involve acquisition, research, design, develop- ment, testing, planning, as well as staffing and monitoring of cost and schedule for technical activities.
Since 2009, Christian has been president of the Central Florida chapter of RAYBEN (Raytheon’s Black Employees Network). Through the firm’s notable outreach program, Math- MovesU, she has partnered with local schools and sororities in a Black History Month poster and essay contest featuring outstand- ing African Americans in STEM fields. She conducts high school and college seminars for at-risk girls and mentors college students in Raytheon’s anti-tamper practitioner training program. She is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the
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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Christian earned her Master’s degree in Information Systems Management in 2010.
Contribution — Government Outstanding Technical
Jon C. Goldsby, Ph.D. Materials Research Engineer National Aeronautics and Space Administration
result in increased safety and complexity of flight vehicles, as well as reduced
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production cost. Quite early in his career, he made his mark in the development of test techniques for the measurement of ceramic materials used in components that make up gas turbine engines. The use of ceramic materials in aircraft engines has been slow because of their low fracture toughness, erosion and a lack of understanding as to when and how they fail under real conditions. Since 1991, Dr. Goldsby’s contributions have resulted in the development of a high-temperature silicon carbide fiber used in ceramic matrix composites (CMCs). More and more, CMCs are considered to be enabling technologies for advanced gas turbine engines to reduce fuel consumption and emissions while increas- ing performance. Dr. Goldsby has also developed techniques for measuring damping behavior at high temperatures. These techniques are critical for the development of CMC blades for gas turbine engines. Dr. Goldsby’s technique has been used to evalu- ate CMC turbo pumps for use in the space shuttle and by an oil and gas company for evaluation of damping of energy conversion ceramics at high temperatures. In 2011, he developed a process- ing technique for the fabrication of single crystal shape memory alloys without the carbon impurity that is typically present in con- ventional single crystal processes. The new process will enable improvements for shape memory alloys, a class of smart materials used in electrical, hydraulic, or pneumatic devices that control the flow of material or power. These new techniques are enabling the development of high performance smart fan blades, and vari- able area nozzles with significant fuel burn reduction for future aircraft. Dr. Goldsby’s research on fabrication of energy harvest- ing devices for powering health monitoring sensors in gas turbine engines will also enable new technologies for aircraft engines. He has also identified advanced materials for energy harvesting using waste heat from gas turbine engines. Dr. Goldsby has mentored students from Florida A&M University and the University of Illinois in developing processing techniques for gas chemical sensors, ceramic forming techniques as well as composite modeling. While teaching at Howard Uni- versity as a visiting assistant professor in the electrical engineer-
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on C. Goldsby, Ph.D leads efforts that will someday
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