City of Philadelphia - File #: 160086

• File #: 160086
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 1/28/2016
• In control: CITY COUNCIL
• Final action: 1/28/2016
• Title: Honoring, recognizing and celebrating the 30th Black Engineers of the Year Awards STEM Conference.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Green, Councilmember Gym, Councilmember Domb, Councilmember Jones, Councilmember Johnson, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Taubenberger, Councilmember Parker, Councilmember Quiñones Sánchez, Council President Clarke, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Henon, Councilmember Oh, Councilmember Bass

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
1/28/2016	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar	Pass
1/28/2016	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED

Title
Honoring, recognizing and celebrating the 30th Black Engineers of the Year Awards STEM Conference.

Body
WHEREAS, Hosted by US Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine, The Council of HBCU Engineering Deans, and Lockheed Martin Corporation, the 30th Annual Black Engineers of the Year Awards ("BEYA") Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics ("STEM") Conference will take place on February 18-20, 2016 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and

WHEREAS, Conference events and presentations aim to address the inequities of diversity in technology and science as a means for increasing awareness, improving attitudes and expanding opportunities for the current and future workforce; and

WHEREAS, African American students are more than twice as likely to switch to other majors as are white and Asian American students; in 2006, just 5.2 percent of the engineering degrees awarded to U.S. citizens went to African Americans; and

WHEREAS, This event-packed three-day event unites more than 8,000 industry entrants and professionals including college representatives and leaders embodying the upper echelon in STEM for an agenda that will include training and networking opportunities, seminars and workshops and the conference's popular career fair, which provides access to leading employers; and

WHEREAS, The winner of the 2016 BEYA Black Engineer of the Year Award is Christopher Jones, Corporate Vice President and President of Northrop Grumman's Technical Services sector. Mr. Jones has provided his technical expertise and business acumen there since 2004, after leading flight testing, research and analysis innovative rotorcraft technologies at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, among other assignments; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Jones previously demonstrated scholastic excellence, earning a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology followed by master's degrees in aerospace eng...