{"id":4209,"date":"2019-02-27T21:43:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T03:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaaea.org\/il\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2019-02-27T21:43:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T03:43:10","slug":"2019-the-washington-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaaea.org\/il\/2019-the-washington-award\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 The Washington Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

AAAEA IL participated in the Chicagoland Engineering Week ending Feb 22nd<\/sup> with AAAEA famous annual Essay\/Poster Contest.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 2019 WASHINGTON\nAWARDEE | MARGARET HAMILTON<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 Margaret H. Hamilton is CEO of Hamilton\nTechnologies. She graduated in 1958 from Earlham in mathematics and philosophy.\nPreparing for graduate school, she joined MIT, developing software for\npredicting weather on the LGP-30; and for SAGE\u2019s air defense system on the\nAN\/FSQ-7. Upon hearing MIT needed people to \u201csend man to the moon\u201d,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

she joined NASA\/MIT\u2019s project to build Apollo on-board\nflight software, starting with unmanned missions. For the manned missions, she\nled the team that developed the on-board flight software for the command and\nlunar modules. She was the Director of the Software Engineering Division at\nMIT\u2019s Instrumentation Laboratory. Hamilton developed software to detect and\nrecover from errors in realtime; including the priority displays interface routines\nbased on her man-in-the-loop-concepts that gave the software the ability to\ncommunicate asynchronously in realtime with the astronauts \u2013 the software and\nastronauts running in parallel \u2013 within a distributed system-of-systems environment.\nWith this as a backdrop, the priority displays warned the astronauts in an\nemergency by interrupting<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the astronauts\u2019 normal mission displays and replacing them\nwith priority alarm displays \u2013 as was the case during the Apollo 11 landing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamilton is the person who came up with the idea of naming the discipline, \u201csoftware engineering\u201d, as a way of giving it legitimacy. She led an empirical study of Apollo and later efforts, resulting in her systems theory of control. From its axioms, the universal systems language was derived together with its automation and preventative paradigm. Hamilton received the NASA Exceptional Space Act Award (2003) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama (2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AAAEA judges selected 3 wining students to award during the prestigious\nWashington Award dinner on Feb 22nd<\/sup>. The Essay\/Poster Contest was\nsponsored by AAAEA-IL and was open to all students in the 3rd through 8th\ngrades in the Chicagoland area schools. Students submitted an essay and a\nposter about an engineer that they admire or have made an impact on their life.\nThe essays explained who the engineer was and why the student admired this\nengineer. The poster depicted some aspect of the engineer and the engineer\u2019s\naccomplishment. The purpose of the contest is meant to stimulate students to\nconsider careers in engineering by fostering interest in engineering through\nresearch, essay writing, creating a poster and interacting with engineers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below\nwere the judges and the winners for the 2019 contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-<\/em><\/strong>Week<\/em><\/strong> Coordinator:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jamal Grainawi, PE, SE; WSP, AAAEA-IL Trustee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay\/Poster Judge:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jamal Grainawi, PE, SE; WSP, AAAEA-IL Trustee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hussam Alkhatib, PE ; WSP, AAAEA-IL Vice President<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winners:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n 5th & 6th Grade<\/strong><\/strong>\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Dean Hammad\n <\/td>\n 6th Grade\n <\/td>\n Palos South\n Elementary School\n <\/td>\n Topic: Douglas\n Engelbart<\/strong>\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n  \n <\/td>\n  \n <\/td>\n  \n <\/td>\n  \n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Naya Kudssi\n <\/td>\n 5th Grade\n <\/td>\n Westview Hills\n Middle School\n <\/td>\n Topic: Larry\n Page<\/strong>\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n 7th & 8th Grade<\/strong><\/strong>\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Naomi Hammad\n <\/td>\n 8th Grade\n <\/td>\n Palos South\n Middle School\n <\/td>\n Topic: Steve Sasson<\/strong><\/strong>\n <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

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In addition to the judges and the students the dinner was attended by the association president Mr. Amro Kudssi.<\/strong> The new chair of the Women Engineers Mrs. Rund Daod<\/strong> and her husband Mr. Ahmad Saadeh<\/strong>. Here are pictures from the event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See all event pictures and more at AAAEA Flickr <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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