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Chris McManes Boeing Technical Fellow Becomes IEEE-USA President WASHINGTON (13 January 2003) — Jim Leonard became president of IEEE-USA on New Year's Day. A Technical Fellow with Boeing Military Aircraft & Missile (A&M) Systems in St. Charles, Mo., he served as IEEE-USA president-elect in 2002. Leonard, an IEEE Life Senior Member, succeeds LeEarl Bryant of Richardson, Texas, and will serve for one year. John Steadman of Laramie, Wyo., will become IEEE-USA president in 2004. Leonard, a registered professional engineer in Ohio and Missouri, has worked at Boeing A&M for 39 years. He is currently responsible for the aircraft integration of the U.S. Navy air-to-surface Harpoon and Standoff Land Attack Missile into U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force and foreign aircraft. In 1991, he received the McDonnell-Douglas/U.S. Navy Reliability, Maintainability and Quality Assurance Award (Salty Dog). He and two Boeing colleagues were recently presented a Boeing Special Invention Award for their patent, "An Airlaunch System Interface." Leonard's IEEE leadership activities include Region 5 Director (1992-93), IEEE Executive Quality Committee (1992-93), IEEE-USA Member-at-Large (2000-01), St. Louis Section Chairman (1980-81) and representative to the U.S. Department of Defense Microcircuit Obsolescence Committee (1988-90). He was instrumental in Hawaii's Opana Radar Site being recognized as an IEEE Historical Milestone on 23 Feb. 2000. See http://www.ieeeusa.org/newspubs/features/opanaradar.htm. Leonard has been recognized for his contributions to IEEE numerous times: 1984 IEEE Centennial Medal, 1986 United States Activities Board (USAB) Achievement Award, 1991 Region 5 Outstanding Member Award, 1996 USAB Award for Distinguished Contributions to Engineering Professionalism, and the 2000 IEEE Millennium Award. He was elected a fellow of the St. Louis Academy of Science in 1998. Leonard has written 24 published papers, a three-volume reference series, "Progress in Simulation," and an IEEE Press book, "Object Oriented Simulation." He also produced the Region 5 video, "Your Future After Graduation." Leonard graduated from the University of Akron in 1961 with a bachelor of electrical engineering degree, and earned an MSEE (power) from St. Louis' Washington University in 1966. At the University of Missouri at Rolla, he received an MSEE (digital) in 1976, a professional development degree in 1984 and an honorary professional degree (computer science) in 1997. Leonard, a native of Akron, Ohio, served in the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve. He and his wife Barbara live in St. Charles, Mo. IEEE-USA is an organizational unit of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers created in 1973 to promote the careers and public-policy interests of the more than 235,000 electrical, electronics, computer and software engineers who are U.S. members of the IEEE. The IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society. For more information, go to http://www.ieeeusa.org. Read Leonard's inaugural IEEE-USA President's Column at http://www.ieeeusa.org/newspubs/presidentscolumn/leonard/leonardjan03.html.
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