Well thanks everyone and Scott-for posting / blowing my cover.... :-)
It's certainly an honor to receive such a peer award like this in your engineering field. MrPLC is like a Chief Delphi to Controls / Automation Engineers. It's a free community website that we learn from each other just like CD does for us FIRST volunteers. It's a great place to learn and share and being a member of CD, I can relate to the good feeling of providing a place where people of common interest can share their experiences in life, mentorship, leadership and all that FIRST does for our upcoming next generation youth. I can't think of a finer bunch of people to hang out with anywhere in the country for sure.
Speaking of FIRST people. I was reading the other 18 winners and I saw one other FIRST person.
Brett Israelsen from Salt Lake City, UT. I didn't mention which team he was mentoring. I think that's awesome that out of 19 people, 2 of us are FIRST mentors. Here is Brett's story.
http://www.controleng.com/industry-n...5774fca5f.html
Here is a link to all 19 winners for Controls Engineering.
http://www.controleng.com/industry-n...757d3a67f.html
Another interesting thing you'll see in the list of people honored is meet Sundeep Chandhoke from National Instruments.... "In 2004-2008, I designed, prototyped, and defined the architecture for integration of a control-based model of computation into National Instruments’ flagship product, LabVIEW. "
How cool is that? One of the Labview's core developers.
Also there is a Magazine Print as well. Starting on page 37.
http://e-ditionsbyfry.com/Olive/ODE/...2010%2F11%2F01
Jane-your so sweet. I am glad you come to IRI each year so we can catch up.