BLACK ENGINEER OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS
ational sites with the goal of reducing driving accidents, injuries, and fatalities to zero. He also revitalized recruitment teams and developed university partnerships to promote both the district’s Building Great Engineers and Advancing Minorities Interests in Engineering programs. The district’s long partnership with Ten- nessee State University grew to include support for pre-college programs. Another enduring legacy was the doubling of the num- ber of employees volunteering to support overseas contingency operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. LTC Mitchell graduated from Prairie View A&M University
with a bachelor’s degree in Biology in 1982 and is also a graduate of the University of Texas with a master’s degree in Engineering.
Professional Achievement — Government
Stephanie P. Bush Goddard, Ph.D. Chief, Health Effects Branch, Division of Systems Analysis Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
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service to the people of the United States. First at the Norfolk Na- val Shipyard and now at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, she has provided vision and commitment to the development of future leaders. In June 2011, she was recognized with a Nuclear Regula- tory Commission Meritorious Service Award for distinction in service to the agency as a visionary branch chief, an outstanding contributor to the rule making and technical review process, and for her voluntary activities to promote NRC’s mission, vision and values. She collaborates with national and international experts in health physics at national laboratories, universities and other organizations. In these collaborations, she supports a series of international meetings between her staff and counterparts at world organizations that promote policies to improve the economic and social well-being of people.
During her 10 years of service at the NRC, Dr. Bush God- dard has fostered knowledge management programs to maintain and enhance the skills of her staff and of health physicists across the agency. She has been recognized for expertise in communicat- ing health risk. She has held memberships in professional and community organizations, including student chapters of the Na- tional Society of Black Engineers and the Health Physics Society (of which she was President) at the University of Michigan. She also has over 20 years of volunteer experience in the Boy Scouts of America, the Girl Scouts of America, and Each One, Teach One organizations. As volunteer champion at the NRC for Fort
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r. Stephanie P. Bush Goddard is a nuclear
Valley State University, she helps provide career opportunities for talented women and minorities and increase the diversity of NRC’s workforce. Dr. Bush Goddard received a bachelor’s degree in Mechani- cal Engineering in May 1991 from the University of Memphis, and a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Health Science from the University of Michigan in 1997 and 2000 respectively. Since 2002, she has taught an environmental risk management class at the University of Maryland, University College.
Professional Achievement — Industry
Cameron Brooks, Ph.D. Director, Government Healthcare Global Public Sector IBM Corporation
business and people skills, Dr, Cameron Brooks has
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made valuable contributions to improve the livelihoods of people. He was the Program Director and Executive Leader for the Blue Gene supercomputer from 2004-2007, leading a worldwide team to build and deliver one of the top computational platforms in the world. Blue Gene eventually won the Presidential Medal of Tech- nology in 2009. Later, as director of smarter water management from January 2008 to March 2011 in IBM’s Big Green Innova- tions, he played a key role in bringing the firm’s Smarter Planet agenda to life. Dr. Brooks has led global projects that integrate wireless sensing, data acquisition and storage, and deep analytic. In the Netherlands, where failure of their legendary system of dikes would leave more than 75 percent of the low-lying country under the sea, Dr. Brooks and his team deployed automated, hands-off systems of remote sensors, embedded in specially constructed structures, to allow use of data analytic to project the future fail- ure of a given dike. Brooks and his team also delivered results for clients in Ireland, with a coastal monitoring and management sys- tem; in Washington, D.C., with real-time asset management and analytic for the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority, and for a Cali- fornia-based water authority. Over the past three and half years, he has led a global team to create a water resources manage- ment business that has grown to become a critical part of IBM’s billion-dollar Smarter Planet/Smarter Cities portfolio. Brooks is also driving one of IBM’s important relationships with Safe Water Networks, a nonprofit that improves the health and livelihoods of people lacking access to safe water. He even designed a module for water education and convinced his extended team to translate it into local languages and use it in their own schools. Brooks is an entrepreneur within a large company, and has
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