Honors & Awards Banquet

ACESS has sponsored Annual Honors and Awards Banquets since 1948 to bring together member societies of ACESS, to recognize outstanding technical talent and to strengthen ties among the members of ACESS, the academic world and distinguished leaders of local industry. The Honors and Awards Banquet provides a joint forum to recognize outstanding science and mathematics students, to present sponsored scholarships and awards, to recognize the Distinguished Service and ACESS Award recipients. The banquet concludes with a speaker who presents the state of science and technology in his or her field of experience.

 

The 22nd Annual Honors and Awards Banquet of ACESS was held on November 5, 2009 at Guy's Party Center.

 

THE DISTINGUISHED AWARD OF COUNCIL

The 2009 recipient of the award is Mr Clark Reed, Chief Technologist, Lockheed Martin Corporation. Reed is responsible for overseeing the business unit's advanced Technology development activities, including protection of intellectual property and patent activities and advancement development of company-funded research and development programs.
Mr Reed graduated from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio with bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, and has earned a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Akron, Ohio along with completing course work towards Ph.D. in the same field.. He maintains a close relationship with both universities serving on the Industrial Advisory Board for the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at The Ohio State University and the College of the College of Engineering Alumni Board and the Women in engineering Advisory Board at The University of Akron.
In addition to serving on the ACESS Advisory Council , Mr Reed has served as a volunteer at Akron Area MATHCOUNTS competitions, as judge for Science Fairs at local schools, and has spoken at various local schools regarding careers in science, math and engineering. He is also a member of the Lockheed's Community Outreach Committee and has served as Lockheed's coordinator for the Summit County United Way campaign.

 

THE HONORARY BANQUET CHAIRMAN
 Mr Stedman joined Exxon Chemical ((subsequently ExxonMobil Chemical) in 1992 in the United    Kingdom as a graduate in Chemical Engineering and French. Mr Stedman worked in the UK for 5 years, followed by 5 years in Brussels, 3 ½ years in Houston, back to Brussels for 2 years and then to Akron in 2008. Mr Stedman has worked in several business units within ExxonMobil, including manufacturing, business analysis, product management, sales and marketing. Currently, he is the Global Sales Manager for the Specialty Elastomers Business

 

 

 

 

Banquet Speaker

 

SHEILA King presented a talk on "The Future of Robotics and Automated Systems"
Sheila King is currently a Senior Project Engineer in Firmware Development for the Netlinx Product Development Group at Rockwell Automation. In her talk she pointed out that robots represent the cutting edge of science in medicine, environment, space, and automation. Automation is the application of robots to create, handle, or shape products. For automation, the advances are not so much in what robots do, but how we can make them do it. How do we optimize exceptional machines? How do we make robots do simple activities quickly, safely and accurately? She reviews the automation of motion; the components, the tools, and the results. You may be surprised about the object that is moved- in some cases it is bottles to be filled with drinks, in some cases it is people on roller coasters, and in some cases it is a rocket on a list-off platform.
She says that a career  in science or engineering is a career in life long learning because as the technology changes, you must be able to apply it. So, first and foremost in college: learn to love to learn! Since you will be working in your career for a long time, make sure it is interesting, challenging, and rewarding. But she also advises to take classes that are outside your obvious areas of interest. College is a great opportunity to experience a lot of different things, so keep an open mind, but, not so open that your brains fall out.

The 61^st Annual Banquet was held on November 6, 2008.

 

 

 

BANQUET SPEAKER
MR ERIC "CyToG" BEAVERS ""

Honorary Banquet Chair,
Robert W Handlos, Vice President, Product Development
Bridgestone Firestone
Distinguished Award of Council
Dr Nick Triantafillopoulos, Director, Akron Technology Center
OMNOVA Solutions Inc
Recognition of
Best Science/Math Students in Summit County

Honorary Banquet Chair

The Board of Directors of ACESS requests an outstanding individual to be the honorary chair of the annual Honors and Awards Banquet which is held on the first Thursday in November.
This individual is requested to assist ACESS in the following activities:
1. Act as the sponsor for ACESS fund raising by authorizing solicitation letters to be sent under the sponsor's signature.
2. Attend the annual banquet.
3. Contribute to offset dinner expenses for the students and teachers to be honored. This is a voluntary contribution and in the past up to $4000 has been contributed by our generous sponsors.
4. Encourage members of his/her organization to attend the banquet.
5. Utilize his/her influence to request another individual to be the banquet chair for the following year.