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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Celebrate Engineering Banquet Exceeds All Expectations!
February 13, 2004 - The IEEE FWCS and
five other participating local engineering societies celebrated the prestigious
4th annual Celebrate Engineering Banquet, in honor of National
Engineers Week. Many society members, teachers and students were recognized
with awards for their achievements. 320 members and guests attended one
of the most outstanding engineering events ever held in the Tampa Bay
area, at the most eloquent A La Carte Pavilion in Tampa. Keynote Speaker Dr. Robin Murphy, USF Professor, provided
a dynamic and enlightening talk and live demonstration of the use of small
robots for search and rescue operations, with discussion and actual video
clips of use of these robots for the rescue mission during 9/11 in New
York. What a wonderful example of the contribution of engineering technology
to our society!
Dick Crippen, famous local sports broadcaster and current
spokesman for the Devil Rays Foundation, entertained us throughout the
evening as the Master of Ceremonies. Did you know that his son is an engineer!
Local musicians serenaded us with eloquent and soothing harp and flute
sonatas throughout the reception and dinner. Caricaturists were present
to draw and capture our worst possible features highlighted on paper!
Mr. Beall received his BSEE from Clemson University, Clemson,
South Carolina in 1953. He is currently an Engineering Consultant. He
retired from AT&T Teletype Corporation in 1984, as a Senior Engineer
in Plant Engineering, responsible for project management of electrical
power and control systems for new facilities for the manufacture of electronic
circuit boards, electrochemical facilities, electronic equipment manufacturing,
MOS IC fabrication facilities and a research center for new MOs IC fabrication
techniques. He also had Engineering Responsibility for all plant electrical
operation, maintenance and expansion at the 1,300,000 square foot Skokie
location. His many plant engineering assignments included electrical design
of the 600,000 sq. ft Little Rock plant. His career has been one of demonstrated
technical leadership whether at company, local, society or Institute level.
Robert W. Beckwith was presented the PES Florida West Coast Chapter Outstanding Engineer of the Year Award by Art Nordlinger, Chair of the Chapter. Mr. Beckwith was recognized for “50 years of Leadership and Innovation in the Electric Power Industry and Support of the Power Engineering Society Florida West Coast Chapter". He is founder and CEO of Beckwith Electric Company in Largo. Mr. Beckwith is credited with a number of inventions, innovations, and patents including Frequency Shift Keying, the development of secure voice-modulated sonar for ship-to-submarine underwater communications, spread-spectrum sonar, an Over-the-Horizon Radar with a 2,000-mile range, the first Polaris Digital Fire Control system, an early-transistorized Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition system, and the first transistorized synchronizer used for generators. # # # For more information: |
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