Pratt & Whitney
Pratt & Whitney Inducts New Fellows
EAST HARTFORD, Conn., March 18, 2022 – Pratt & Whitney inducted new Fellows, appointed Senior Fellows and Senior Fellow Discipline Leads, and recognized them for their achievements as leaders in their areas of specialty on March 17 in a ceremony held at The Bushnell in Hartford.
Established in 1995, the Pratt & Whitney Fellows Program grows the technical leadership needed to continue the engine maker’s legacy of innovation. Fellows advance the technical excellence needed for Pratt & Whitney products, processes and people. Selection of new Fellows follows a rigorous review of the individual’s contributions to Pratt & Whitney, the field of engineering and the aviation industry.
“Our Fellows are aerospace industry experts and valuable contributors and decision makers in their respective fields,” said Geoff Hunt, senior vice president of Engineering, when he addressed the Fellows during the ceremony. “This group continues the legacy of excellence and leadership built since Pratt & Whitney was founded nearly 100 years ago and continues to redefine what innovation means today.”
During the ceremony each inductee was recognized by their vice president and senior fellow discipline lead. The evening also featured Nicholas Donofrio, who retired as executive vice president of Innovation and Technology at IBM, as the keynote speaker. Donofrio, fellow and fellow emeritus at IBM, spoke on innovation in the 21st century.
Appointed to Senior Fellow Discipline Lead was Scott Hjelm for Structures and Mike McCune was appointed to Senior Fellow for Transmission Design.
Newly inducted fellows are:
- Joshua Adams, Fellow in Advanced Controls
- Dr. Sean Bradshaw, Engineering Fellow for Sustainable Propulsion
- Iuliana Cernatescu, Materials Characterization and Applications Fellow
- Amy Cochis, Quality Systems Fellow
- Paul Denney, first Manufacturing Non-Conventional Machining Fellow
- Gerard Denton, Program Quality Fellow
- Ryan Forgue, Ground Test Validation Fellow
- Andrew Gagnon, Fellow in Systems Engineering, focused on Requirements
- Cameron Hendricks, Engineering Model Based System Engineering Fellow
- Garrett Kernozicky, Engineering Fellow for Repair Technologies
- Claire Lippolis, Project Engineering Fellow
- Vasisht Venkatesh, Fellow in the Materials and Processes Discipline
- Elizabeth Vinson, Fellow in Rotating Structures
- Brian Wylie, Engineering Quality Fellow
Additionally, as part of Canada’s Engineers Month activities, the following Fellows were announced by Frédéric Lefebvre, executive director – Externals, Controls & Nacelles and P&WC Executive Sponsor for the Fellows program:
- José Albero, Fellow in Program Management
- Nicolas Boisvert, Fellow in Development Engineering Test, Instrumentation and Validation Process Management
- Waldemar Daź, Fellow in Conventional Machining and Tooling
- Christopher J. Karis, Fellow in Software Design & Control Software Verification
- Xiaoliu Lu, Fellow in Secondary Air Systems
- David McAskill, Fellow in Project Management
- Amir Taheri, Fellow in Control Systems Requirement Management
- Zbigniew Wencel, Fellow in Heat Treatment, Joining and Welding
- Jian-Ming (Jimmy) Zhou, Fellow in Aero-Thermal Fluids – Combustion Aerodynamics.
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