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2007 UB Business Partners Day
National Grid CEO Steve Holliday
Dean Harvey Stenger presenting UB Engineering’s Vital Partner award to Joseph Wagovich on behalf of Lockheed Martin
NYS Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples and UB President John Simpson
UB Engineering and UB held another successful UB Business Partners Day in downtown Buffalo to celebrate the successful and productive relationships among industry, government and the School and University.
The Engineering Alumni Association began the awards portion of the program with their presentation of the Engineer of the Year award to Norman McCombs, BS EngSci ’68.
UB Engineering honored Lockheed Martin with the Vital Partner Award in recognition of its longtime support of the School. Lockheed Martin’s multiple partnerships exemplify the benefits gained by faculty, students, research, and corporate partners when industry and academia work together.
Among the partnerships between Lockheed Martin and UB Engineering are the federal systems contracts for the U.S. Postal System at UB’s Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition and supply chain management research conducted by Lockheed Martin with UB’s Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Lockheed Martin has also supported UB Engineering with generous philanthropic dollars, actively recruits our graduates, and attends Tau Beta Pi’s annual Honors Employment Dinner. In addition, company executives have long been generous volunteers with the School. Joseph Wagovich accepted the award on behalf of Lockheed Martin. Also attending from Lockheed Martin were UB Engineering alums David Howe, BS ME ’03, BS AE ’03, and Kimberly Davis, BS EE ’04, both of whom are employed at Lockheed Martin’s Owego site.
The University gave its Igniting Ideas award to Crystal Peoples, New York State Assemblywoman. UB President John Simpson remarked, “Crystal Peoples has worked hard to improve the economic, environmental, cultural, academic and health conditions for her constituency. We are especially appreciative of Assemblywoman People’s support of UB’s plans to grow and her understanding of our positive impact in Buffalo Niagara, especially within Buffalo’s urban core.”
This year’s featured speaker was Steve Holliday, CEO of National Grid. Holliday discussed energy delivery and global climate change. One of the world’s largest utilities, National Grid has committed to delivering a 60 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions for all its processes, operations and offices in the United Kingdom and the US by 2050.
For more information about the event, please see http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/events/iuday/index.htm.