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FIATECH Awards Engineering and Technology Innovation Achievements

AUSTIN, TX, April 26, 2007 – From the 35 nominations received for FIATECH’s CETI Awards – Celebration of Engineering & Technology Innovation – jurors announced the winners at the CETI Awards Gala in Washington, DC on April 10th, 2007. For a description of each entry, as well as an electronic file of their submittal, please visit our web site at http://www.fiatech.org/events/awards/07/cetiwinners.html.

• Small Scale Implementation Category Winner
  Organization: Onuma, Inc. (partnered with United States Coast Guard)
  Entry: Sector Command Planning System

• Large Scale Implementation Category - Honorable Mention
  Organization: General Motors Worldwide Facilities Group/GHAFARI Assoc., L.L.C
  Entry: 3D-Enabled Lean Design Construction

• Large Scale Implementation Category Winner
  Organization: GSA Office of the Chief Architect (partnered with Autodesk, Bentley Systems, Graphisoft, Onuma , NIST, ASTM, Harvard University, Georgia Institute of Technology, LBNL, NVE, Olof Granlund, Solibri and Digital Alchemy)
  Entry: GSA’s National 3D-4D-BIM Program

• New Technology Implementation Category - Honorable Mention
  Organization: Mammoet USA
  Entry: I-10 / Raines Road Bridge Changeout

• New Technology Implementation Category Winner
  Organization: Intel Corp., Emerging Platforms Lab
  Entry: Low Power Wireless Sensor Networks: Benefits Analysis in an Industrial Environment

• Outstanding Mind Category - Honorable Mention
  Individual: Dr. Esin Ergen -Carnegie Mellon University
  Entry: Life-cycle data management of engineered-to-order components using advanced tracking technologies

• Outstanding Mind Category Winner
  Individual: Dr. Christopher B. Gordon - Carnegie Mellon University
  Entry: Computational approach to support decisions about the full range of possible inspection approaches

• Innovation or Creative Activity in Academics Category Winner
  Organization: San Diego State State University (partnered with Project Lead the Way)
  Entry: Project Lead the Way

Jurors for the 2006 CETI Awards were: Micheal Alianza (CETI Award Chair), Senior Analyst, Emerging Trends and Technologies, Intel Corporation; James H. Garrett, Jr., Ph.D. Professor and Head, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University; Tapio Koivu, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Ventures, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland; Francis Rabuck, Director, Real Time Asset Lab, Bentley Systems; Tom Sawyer, Information Technology Editor, Engineering News-Record; Benedict Schwegler, Ph.D., Vice President & Chief Scientist, Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development and Dana K. Smith, RA, President, DKS Information Consulting

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