SAMPE NORTH AMERICA ANNOUNCES 2022 YOUNG PROFESSIONAL EMERGING LEADERSHIP AWARD FINALISTS
Tuesday, May 31, 2022, DIAMOND BAR, CA – The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) North America presented the Young Professional Emerging Leadership Award (YPELA) finalists and named the 2022 Young Professional of the Year Award winners during SAMPE's annual spring conference in Charlotte. The 2022 Young Professional of Year award was granted to two honorees, Mark Kaufman, Lead Design Engineer at The Boeing Company, and Kenan Song, PhD, Assistant Professor at Arizona State University.
2022 Young Professional of the Year Award recipients Mark Kaufman (left image) and Kenan Song (right photo) with SAMPE North America President, Jerome Berg and incoming 2022-2023 North America President, Scott Stephenson.
The award recognizes the achievements of young professionals who have graduated from university and are under the age of 35 by sending application finalists to the SAMPE North America annual technical conference and exhibition to network with peers and industry professionals while increasing their understanding of the materials and process community.
This year’s Finalists and Young Professional of the Year award winners were recognized onstage during the SAMPE Awards Breakfast held in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 26, 2022.
The 2022 YPELA finalists are:
- Philip R. Barnett, PhD, National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate, Air Force Research Laboratory, SC-Carolinas Chapter
- Yourri-Samuel Dessureault, PhD, Manufacturing R&D Engineer, Virgin Galactic, FAMU-FSU Chapter
- Muthu Ram Prabhu Elenchezhian, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Purdue University-Composites Manufacturing & Simulation Center, U-Texas-Arlington Chapter
- Oliver Hulme, Design Engineer/Program Manager, HyPerComp Engineering Inc., UT-Utah Chapter
- Jeffrey Hutton, Senior Research Scientist, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, CA-High Desert Chapter
- Mark Kaufman, Lead Design Engineer, The Boeing Company, SC-Carolinas Chapter
- Vidya Kishore, PhD, R&D Associate Staff Member, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Student Member-at-Large
- Brian Lisco, Structural Analyst / Materials & Processes Engineer, Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., TX-SOTEX Chapter
- Kenan Song, PhD, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, AZ-Grand Canyon Chapter
- Rebekah Sweat, PhD, Assistant Professor, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, SC-Carolinas Chapter
- Pritesh Yeole, PhD, Researcher, University of Tennessee Knoxville, SC-Carolinas Chapter
Left to right: Jerome Berg, Pritesh Yeole, Oliver Hulme (back), Brian Lisco, Muthu Ram Prabhu Elenchezhian, Yourri-Samuel Dessureault, Jeffrey Hutton, Rebekah Sweat, Mark Kaufman (back), Scott Stephenson, accepting the award for Vidya Kishore was Vlastimil Kunc, and accepting the award for Philip Barnett was Hannah Maeser.
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