Dar
es Salaam — George Jonas, the Tanzanian working with Boeing is expected
to receive the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) next week
during the conference to be held during the second week of next month.
According to the
awards' winners list posted on Beya Conference website, Mr Jonas will
receive the Walt W Braithwaite Legacy Award.
Mr Jonas is currently working with the Boeing Company's commercial airplanes as 777X Airplane Safety Engineer.
BEYA is one of the
largest gatherings in the US dedicated to increasing diversity in
science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)
He is among of 41 people from around the world to receive different Beya Awards 2019 on different categories.
He will join other
colleague from The Boeing Company include Mr Raenaurd Turpin, the
company chief engineer who has scooped the Outstanding Technical
Contribution in industry award and Mrs Tiera Fletcher the company Space
Launch System Structural Design engineer who will be awarded the Most
promising Engineer award.
Other employees of
the company who will be awarded are Human resource director at Boeing
South Carolina Akeem Iman-Jones for Dave Barclay Affirmative Action
Award and Leo Brooks Jr, the company Vice President, Defense, Space,
Security and government operations who will has scooped the Career
Achievement in industry Award.
Mr Jonas was first
known by Tanzanians when Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL) received
the first Boeing 787-800 Dreamliner in July last year.
Mr Jonas, 41 years,
who hails from Mbeya region, was one of the technical members of staff
for Boeing who took part to manufacture of the 262-seater plane.
Mr Jones joined Boeing in 2011 and was part of the company's team that built Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner.
Before joining
Boeing, he was an employee at Bombardier, where he was recognized for
his outstanding contribution to the Bombardier Learjet Strategic
Transformation Project in 2009.
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