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BLACK ENGINEER OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS


Over the past three years, he has taken TI’s C2000 business from average performance to one of the fastest growing and profitable product lines, growing from $75 million in revenue to $200 million. He has doubled the customer base and tripled the number of products available to customers. Ogboenyiya is currently leading a team of more than 100 people in disciplines ranging from engineering to silicon design to program manage- ment. His teams are based in Texas, India, Australia and China. Ogboenyiya joined TI as a co-op student in 2000 and was


offered a full-time position in 2002 after graduating with a dual degree from Georgia Tech in electrical engineering and in math- ematics from Morehouse College. After taking on various roles of increasing responsibility within TI, he was promoted general manager in 2009. Some of his past accomplishments include driving the definition of TI’s micro controllers for automotive cluster systems.


As a result, the unit is in production today and products are used in popular vehicles such as Ford F150, Ford Mustang and Land Rover automobiles. Ogboenyiya is an inspiration for aspir- ing engineers and provides significant mentoring to individuals both inside and outside of TI.


Albert E. Sweets, Jr. Principle


Innovative STEM Solutions, LLC A


n award-winning entre- preneur, engineer, edu-


cator, consultant and former Navy operations specialist and instructor, Maryland native Albert E. Sweets also has a long history of com- munity service. Sweets first began actively giving back


to his community through his participation in Baltimore’s Boy Scouts Troop 282. He became the first in his troop to achieve membership in the prestigious Order of the Arrow, the national honor society of the Boy Scouts of America. Sweets went on to enlist in the U.S. Navy in 1984, eventually switching over to the Naval Reserves, in which he remained until 2005. Alongside his dedicated military career, Sweets earned a


bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Morgan State University in 1994. In 1999 he achieved his master’s in project management from George Washington University. As a student and professional, Sweets has gone out of his way to mentor and assist his peers. Sweets is currently the CEO of the nationally recognized, minority-owned Innovative STEM Solutions LLC (iSTEMS), an organization that seeks to build sustainable relation- ships between academia, government and private corporations. Going along with Sweets’ longtime community service ini- tiatives, one of the primary goals of iSTEMS is to bring opportu- nities to urban children and adults, as well as excite them about the prospect of working in STEM programs. In 2012 he went global and helped to organize a STEM conference in Addis Aba- ba, Ethiopia. For the past two years Sweets has also sponsored the Ruth Golberg Design Camp, a summer communication and technology program for middle and high school students held at Arizona State University and his alma mater, Morgan State Uni-


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versity. He also supports several extracurricular programs in the Baltimore area, and has been a mentor for K-12 school systems in Maryland, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.


Olton Swanson, PE, PMP Deputy District Engineer and Chief, Planning, Programs and Project Management Division U.S. Army Corps of Engineers


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s the Deputy District Engineer for Programs and Project Management since 2006, Olton Swanson is the senior civilian in the Se- attle District, United States Army Corps of Engineers. A part of the Corps for almost 30 years, Swanson mentors more than 1,000 fellow civilian employees and has presided over the An- nual SAME Design Excellence Com- petition for the past seven years. Swanson’s


path to engineering excellence started at an early age. After showing he had an aptitude for math and science in elementary school, he eventu-


ally tested into one of the first advanced math classes at his high school. He was also one of only nine freshman students from his high school to be inducted into the National Honor Society. As the 15th of his parent’s 18 children, Swanson was also busy at home. Despite his family struggling to make ends meet on their farm in Southern New Jersey, Swanson held on to his dream of attending college and worked every summer starting at age 12. He achieved his goal in 1982, graduating from the University of Washington in Seattle with a Bachelor of Science in Ceramic Engineering.


Swanson remained in Seattle after graduation, obtaining a professional engineering license (industrial) in the state of Wash- ington and joining the district’s Army Corps of Engineers in March 1983. Through various positions and projects he has built his reputation and helped to make improvements on all levels of planning, design and construction for the area’s military and civilian engineering programs. Swanson has achieved numerous awards; including the Seattle District Commander’s Award and six Chief of Engineer’s Coins for Excellence. Today Swanson continues to pursue excellence in other areas of his profession. For the past three years, he has been the chairperson for the Engineering Advisory Board for Seattle’s Evergreen Technical, Engineering and Communications High School.


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