EMERALD HONORS WINNERS Educational Leadership Hudson V. Jackson,
Ph.D., PE. Dipl-Ing Associate Professor Department of Civil Engineering U.S. Coast Guard Academy
has focused much of his life on education. An experienced geotechnical engineer, Jack- son’s position as an associate professor at the Coast Guard Academy allows him to help lead others to successful careers in the engineering field. Although many of his projects have been based in New Jersey and New York are (primarily for
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the transportation industry), Jackson has international origins. He comes from Sierra Leone, West Africa, where he earned a bachelor of engineering from Fourah Bay College at the University of Sierra Leone in 1986. It was here that he began his teaching career, instructing undergraduate students in surveying, civil engineering materials, material and structures and build- ing technology from 1986 to 1989. Jackson eventually moved at Germany to earn an engineer’s degree (similar to a master’s) from the Technology University of Darmstadt. While there he worked as an engineer at the Mann and Bernhardt Engineering firm, but returned to Sierra Leone after graduation to lecture at Fourah Bay College. Jackson immi- grated to the United States and went on to receive his Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from Rutgers University in 2003, after earning a master’s at the same institution in 2000. At Rutgers he continued his teaching experience, conducting undergradu- ate courses and grading student material in soil mechanics and foundation engineering.
He also worked as a learning assistant at Rutgers’ Kre- ger Learning Resource Center, where he provided educational assistance to individual students by evaluating their study and learning skills. Jackson then worked as a project manager at Stantec Consulting Services in New Jersey from 2002 to 2007, after which he moved to Connecticut to teach at the Coast Guard Academy. He has been commended for his involvement in the academy’s portable robotics competition, as well as his outreach efforts to students from diverse backgrounds.
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Educational Leadership
Kenneth Tolson America21 Partner Chief Economic Inclusion Advisor HBCU Innovation and Commercialization
enneth Tolson has been an information technol- ogy management consultant for two decades. Recently, he was appointed by Presi- dent Obama to serve on the Board of Advisors for the White House Historically Black College and Univer- sity (HBCU) Initiative and he chaired the initiative’s Science, Technology, Engi- neering and Math (STEM) Innovation and Technology Committee. Tolson’s work has appeared in publications
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like the Boulė Journal for Sigma Pi Phi, and his groundbreaking paper on “HBCUs and Technology Transfer” is recognized as a guide to transform the HBCUs and build STEM opportunities. Tolson is a graduate of Morehouse College and an accomplished global technology visionary.
Among his many accomplishments is total transformation of a petrochemical company business unit in Saudi Arabia. During infrastructure build up, he managed offices in Dubai and Abu Dhabi for the consulting team comprised of Cisco, Avaya and Microsoft of the Middle East. He led engineering teams in Eastern Europe for the ministry of state in Romania focusing on IT strat- egy to get the nation admitted into the European Union (EU). Tolson also presented a number of briefs to the EU technol- ogy committee on the digital divide in Europe. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he oversaw the statewide design of Maryland’s judiciary system that interfaced with the homeland security justice network. He was co-founder of the Emerging Technology Consor- tium, which merged with Technology Based Development for the 21st Century during Obama’s first presidential campaign. Tbed21 is now the America 21 Project, a non-partisan research and edu- cational institute whose mission is to promote public policies to advance innovation and economic productivity in America. Tolson is the co-author of the Emerging Technology Act of 2007, which became the first law in a District of Columbia City Charter to address innovation. One of only five Washingtonians appointed by Obama to a national bipartisan commission, Tolson is chief economic inclusion advisor for the America 21 project where he advises on technology transfer policy for HBCUs and Hispanic- serving institutions. He recently co-authored the District of Colum- bia Competitiveness Act of 2010, which aligned the district with Obama’s education initiatives specifically focusing on STEM. A retired Marine, he is the grandson of Dr. Melvin B Tolson who was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the “Great Debat- ers” movie produced by Oprah Winfrey, and the son of Dr. Wiley W. Tolson, first African-American biochemist to work in the Army’s Walter Reed Medical Center.
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