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IN THE NEWSCischkeHakim Pease Doran PhillionPitcherSue Cischke, FESD, Vice President, Environmental and SafetyEngineering, Ford Motor Company, was selected as a Womanof Distinction by Girl Scouts of the Huron Valley Council.The Women of Distinction Award is given annually to womenwho exemplify excellence in their professional and/or theircommunity service work by giving their time and experienceto enrich the lives of others. Ms. Cischke was the recipient ofthe Horace H. Rackham Award for Outstanding Achievementin 1997 and has been an ESD Fellow since 2002. Throughouther career, she has been a strong advocate for women workingin historically male positions by breaking down gender barriersand helping other women along the trail she has paved.George N. Hakim, PE, an ESD member since 1980, has beennamed director of Facilities Administration for the MichiganDepartment of Management and Budget. Mr. Hakim’s newposition will be to lead an extensive facilities operation thatprovides building operations, design, construction, securityand real estate services for state government and relatedservices for public institutions. Mr. Hakim earned a bachelor’sdegree in civil engineering from the University of Detroit andcontinued post-graduate study at Wayne State University.NextEnergy, along with the United States Army Tank-Automotive and Armament Command’s NationalAutomotive Center and several Michigan alternativeenergy technology industry partners, are developing anAdvanced Mobile Microgrid Power System that will allow thedeployment of mobile power of up to 1.5 megawatts, anywherein the world in 48 hours or less. The system has projecteduses in the wake of a natural disaster, in the aftermath of ahomeland security incident and to support military operations.Turner Construction announced the following new hires:Jerry Moses, as Senior Project Manager; Mel Pease, asSuperintendent; Matt Bort, as Superintendent; DwightHooks, as lead estimator; and Eric Fairbanks, as SafetyCoordinator. Turner Construction is the leading generalbuilder in the United States and has completed more than$4 Billion worth of work in the state of Michigan.Altair Engineering, Inc. donated computer-aided engineeringsoftware to Western Michigan University estimated to beworth $1.5 million over the next five years. The program, AltairHyperWorks, is a suite of tools used by most of the world’sleading manufacturers, especially in the automotive industry.Altair Engineering is a leading global provider of technology andservices that strengthen client innovation and decision making.Thomas Doran, PE, was elected to the Board of Directors asVice President/Partner, for Hubbell, Roth & Clark (HRC),Inc. Mr. Doran will strengthen and expand HRC’s industrialand municipal offerings. HRC provides consulting engineeringand architectural services to municipal, industrial and privateclients throughout southeastern Michigan.DeMaria Building Company announced the following newhires: Todd Ackermann, as Project Superintendent; AnthonyPedrosi, as Project Engineer; and Carolyn Phillion, as ProjectBookkeeper. DeMaria also announced that they promoted JeffPitcher to Project Engineer and that they obtained the contractfor the renovation of City Hall for the City of Inskter.CTI & Associates is developing a bioreactor at a St. ClairCounty landfill that will speed up the decomposition oforganic garbage by injecting it with septic-tank waste. CTI’ssystem can be used to retrofit current lined landfills or buildinto new ones, thereby offering communities alternativesto dumping the sludge at wastewater treatment plants or onfarm fields, the two approved methods in Michigan. CTI is aconsulting firm that specializes in land development, landfilldesign and environmental engineering.The Bosch Group celebrated its 100th anniversary in theUnited States on August 31, 2006. What began with a salesoffice for magneto ignition devices in New York City inSeptember 1906 is now the Bosch Group’s largest marketoutside Germany. Bosch has also acquired both Mann &Hummel and Telex Communications Holdings since thebeginning of the year in an effort to achieve greater marketposition in the United States.www.esd.org | The Engineering Society of Detroit |