MITRE Student Intern Receives Prestigious Leadership Award

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McLean, Virginia, February 10, 2001 — Georgia Tech graduate engineering student Amin R. Holmes was honored Saturday with this year's Black Engineer of the Year GEM Student Leadership Award. He received the award at the annual three-day Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference held in Baltimore, Md.

Holmes was selected for his outstanding scholastic record, personal conduct and contributions as a student intern at NASA, Proctor and Gamble, Harris Corporation and most recently The MITRE Corporation, a national technology resource which submitted his nomination.

Holmes came to MITRE through GEM, the Graduate Engineering for Minorities Fellowship Program. GEM funds advanced degrees in engineering and the sciences for top minority students, and pairs them with participating technical organizations as interns. He became a GEM fellow and applied to MITRE for an internship after graduating with honors from Florida A&M University.

During the past two summers at MITRE, Holmes worked with a team to establish voice service over computer networks for the Navy. The task required team members to develop a test process, configure testing and monitoring tools, build platforms, integrate software and then collect and package data—all under tight deadlines. His department manager, Donald Jurenko, describes him as a growing leader and a great asset to the team.

Dr. Edward Jones, a professor at Florida A&M who supported Holme's nomination, says "He is able to take on highly complex tasks, to systematically analyze them, and to produce elegant, efficient solutions."

The Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference is the nation's largest and most prestigious minority technology event, hosting more than 7,000 of the country's top achievers along with deans of engineering and information technology programs and leaders from all areas of the technology industry. The conference is sponsored by the Council of Engineering Deans of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities, USBE and Information Technology, and the Lockheed Martin Corporation.

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