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college career, so that I can realize my dream of a profes- sional career in green manufacturing. I want to express my deepest and humblest gratitude to the members of SME for supporting the SME Education Foundation. Thank you for taking your time to support this scholarship and for allow- ing me to be your 2014 SME Education Foundation Family Scholarship recipient.
Outstanding Contributors and Partners Recognized by SME Education Foundation
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t a recent SME awards ceremony in Detroit, the SME Education Foundation honored longtime SME member, John Ruegg, LSME, CMfgE, with a special proclamation “Proclaiming and recognizing John Ruegg’s outstanding efforts and leadership, and expressing our appreciation for his contributions, time and talent to ensure the successful fulfi llment of the Foundation’s scholarship program.” For over 20 years, Ruegg has continually provided out- standing contributions of his time, talent and resources to the SME Education Foundation. He’s served on the Scholarship Review Committee, utilizing his talents to review hundreds of scholarship applications each year. Ruegg always willingly accepts the requests to take on additional applications for review as needed. He’s also participated annually in the face- to-face interviews of the SME Education Foundation Family Scholarship fi nalists to help ensure that the best and the brightest are rewarded for their efforts. In addition, Ruegg’s provided important and critical improvement suggestions that
have contributed to streamlining and enhancing the scholar- ship application and review process. The Foundation also recognized its 2015 SME Education Foundation Outstanding Corporate and Individual Partners that have given fi nancially, as well as provided their time and talent to further its efforts. The SME Education Foundation’s 2015 Outstanding Corporate Partner is Ford Motor
Co. and the Ford Motor Company Fund for its more than 20 years of support with cumulative charitable donations in excess of $1 million. Ford also supports the SME Education Foundation by its representation on the Foundation’s Board of Directors. Kelly Burr, executive director of the Shop Rat Foundation, was named as its 2015 Outstanding Individual Partner. Burr joined the Michigan-based Shop Rat Foundation in 2011 and is cur- rently its executive director. Her responsibilities include oversight of the organization’s education programs, fundraising and ex- pansion plans. The Shop Rat Foundation has been an SME Education Foundation partner since 2008. Its Jackson Area Career Center was awarded a 2012 Partnership Response In Manufacturing Education (PRIME) designation.
2015 SME Offi cers and Directors
PRESIDENT Wayne F. Frost, CMfgE John Deere Waterloo Works (retired)
PRESIDENT-ELECT Dean L. Bartles, PhD, FSME
Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute UI Labs
VICE PRESIDENT Sandra L. Bouckley GKN Driveline Americas
TREASURER
Thomas R. Kurfess, PhD, FSME, CMfgT, PE Georgia Institute of Technology
SECRETARY
Mark L. Michalski MKS Instruments
Greg M. Morris GE Aviation
Robert R. Nesbitt, CMfgE AbbVie
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CEO Jeffrey M. Krause
Contact SME
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Dianne Chong, PhD, FSME The Boeing Company (retired)
Matt L. Hilgendorf, CMfgT Caterpillar, Inc.
Michael F. Molnar, FSME, CMfgE, PE National Institute of Standards and Technology
Ralph L. Resnick, FSME
National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining
America Makes – National Additive Manufacturing Institute
Susan M. Smyth, PhD, FSME General Motors Corporation
DIRECTORS Edye S. Buchanan, CMfgT Fives North American Combustion Inc.
Michael D. Packer, FSME Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
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