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ESD COMMITTEE SPOTLIGHT
Current YEC Members
Young Engineers Council
It’s true that all of ESD’s committees
were created to assist in the Society’s
vision: To foster the growth and development
of engineers and scientists for the future.
While many committees support and/or
maintain that vision, one committee—
the Young Engineers Council (YEC)—
has taken on ESD’s vision as its own.
Founded in 2005, the YEC has the
following goal: To serve the engineer
during the early stages of personal and
professional development.
To reach its goal, the YEC has four
key objectives:
1. Instill a sense of pride in young
professionals for themselves, their
profession, ESD and the community;
2. Provide each member with an
opportunity to participate in ESD;
3. Provide awareness of available
services and sponsored programs
through ESD; and
4. Provide opportunities for networking
with members to promote personal
and professional development.
In its inaugural year, the committee
has already been quite active. On
February 12, the YEC sponsored a social
event at a Detroit Pistons game. More
than two dozen young professionals
networked with colleagues while
enjoying the hospitality of the Lear
Corporation in its suite at the Palace
of Auburn Hills. Also in February, the
YEC hosted a job fair in the atrium of
the Southfield Town Center. Hoping to
attract new, or soon-to-be, engineering
college graduates, the YEC exceeded its
goal with more than 800 students and
45 companies participating. The job fair
also included seminars on job hunting,
resumes and interviewing techniques.
In May, the YEC sponsored a bowling
networking event where two dozen
lanes of a Farmington Hills bowling
alley were filled with young engineers
and professional mentors. Young engineers
also took part in a raffle where
winners got the chance to have lunch
with a business executive.
The YEC plans to implement its
objectives by hosting technical tours,
creating networking events through
technical seminars and invited guest
speakers, encouraging community
involvement by organizing volunteer
opportunities and other special events.
If you’d like to get involved with this or
any other ESD committee, please visit
our Web site at www.esd.org.
Richard J. Haller (Chair)
President & COO
Walbridge Aldinger Co.
Andres Clarens
Graduate Student
University of Michigan College of Engineering
Josh Decker
Virtual Manufacturing Engineer
Ford Motor Company
Dr. Andrew L. Gerhart
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Lawrence Technological University
Mazen J. Haddad
Project Coordinator/Field Engineer
Dürr Systems, Inc.
Jeremy Hargis
Systems Engineer—Foundation Brakes
Robert Bosch Corporation
Josh Heavner
Project Engineer
Walbridge Aldinger Co.
Christopher Izzi
Project Engineer
Walbridge Aldinger Co.
Dorian Kilgore
Body in White Exterior Lead
DaimlerChrysler
Ana Medina
Associate Engineer
DTE Energy
Dr. Gustavo Parra-Montesinos
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Michigan College of Engineering
Kirk Pesta, PE
Mechanical Engineer
HarleyEllis
John Raad
Project Engineer
General Motors Corporation
Kristen R. Rash
Manufacturing Development Engineer
Ford Motor Company
Robert M. Shrier
Staff Engineer
Golder Associates, Inc.
Evangelos P. Skoures
Electrical Engineer
Ford Motor Company
Britney Stieber
Senior Plant Engineer
General Motors Corporation
Keith R. Walter
Project Engineer, DTE Energy
PHOTO: From left, Leanna Schaer, Dürr
Systems, Inc.; Keith Walter, DTE Energy;
David Meynell, ESD President; Dorian Kilgore,
DaimlerChrysler; and Kristen Rash, Ford Motor
Company, belong to the ESD Young Engineers
Council and recently spent time at a Dürr Systems
facility in Auburn Hills seeing how robots
are used in today’s automotive paint systems.
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