Keynote Speakers John N. Yochelson, president, Council on Competitiveness (left),
and Gary T. DiCamillo, chair and CEO, Polaroid Corporation (right), presented

"The New Challenge to America's Prosperity: Findings from the Innovation Index"
and
"The Findings of the Council on Competitiveness' Innovation Index from the Perspective of an Individual Corporation"

      

Also speaking were The Honorable Sheldon Silver, Speaker, New York State Assembly
and The Honorable Mary Lou Rath, Senator, New York State

      

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The Corporate Vital Partner Award was presented to

Delphi Automotive Systems

The UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is pleased to recognize Delphi Harrison Thermal Systems as our 1999 Vital Partner Company Award recipient. Over many years, and over the past five years in particular, Delphi Harrison has supported a large number of innovative and advanced research projects with us; has made contributions to and has participated in The Center for Excellence in Global Enterprise Management; has the longest relationships with UB Engineering for on-site graduate education programs; has educated many of its engineers with our departmentsl has been an advocate for minorities in technical fields through their long-time support of Buffalo-area Engineering Awareness for Minorities, Inc., of which UB is a principal; is a supporter of our student employment programs; and has actively recruited our graduates. More than 150 Delphi Harrison employees have degrees from the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Mark H. Karwan, dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
presents Delphi with the Vital Partner Award

The Individual Vital Partner Award was presented to

Dorothy Gracz Price

The University of Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is proud to honor its first woman graduate, Dorothy Gracz Price (BS IE) of the school's class 1949, with its first-ever Vital Partner Individual Award. The award commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of her graduation.

Dorothy graduated from South Park High School in 1944 and joined the war effort as an engineer's aid at the Curtiss-Wright aircraft plant. Her aptitude for technical work and her outstanding performance led her boss to encourage her to pursue an engineering education.

Her academic career at UB nearly paralleled the development of the brand-new engineering curriculum: she started in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, which was the sole department when she enrolled, then she switched briefly to electrical engineering and finally to industrial engineering, which opened in hr sophomore year.

After working in industry for several years, Dorothy decided to try something new. She had no credentials for teaching, but was told that with her background in engineering, she could certainly do it. She completed the required educaiton courses and landed a position teaching physics at Niagara Wheatfield and then at Maryvale High School in Cheektowaga, from which she retired in 1981 after inspiring a generation of young men and especially young women to excel in math and science.

Dorothy's advice to female students who have an aptitude for math and physics is that they should strongly consider engineering, no matter what career path they have in mind. "Engineering is all about improving methods, cost-analysis, ways to make things better or more efficient," she said. "There is so much available today, so many new technologies to pursue. People shouldn't think of engineering as narrow, it will prepare you for a career in management or in sales -- for almost any kind of job in the industry."

Mark H. Karwan, dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
presents Dorothy Gracz Price with the Vital Partner Award

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SEAS Corporate Sponsors

Partners
	Delphi Automotive Systems
	IBM
	Motorola
	Phillips, Lytle, Hitchcock, Blaine & Huber, LLP
	Praxair
	Sun Microsystems
	Veridian
Supporters
	Fisher-Price
	Flasher Handling Corp.
	IIMAK PAXAR
	TXRX Systems, Inc.
	UPS
Friends
	ATTO Technology, Inc.
	Carleton Technologies, Inc.
	Ergonomics Research, Inc.
	Hodgson, Russ, Andrews, Woods & Goodyear, LLP
	Minrad, Inc.
	Moog, Inc.
	Niagara Mohawk
	Xerox, The Document Company
The list of Partners, Supporters and Friends of Industry University Day was complete at the time the program was printed. To others who may have subsequently given their support to Industry University Day, we give our thanks.

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Cooperating Groups

	Buffalo Niagara Enterprise
	Buffalo Niagara Partnership
	Health Care Industries Association
	infoTech Niagara
	New Millenium Group
	New York State Business Council
	The 21st Century Club
	UB Engineering Alumni Association

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