Date:  May 12, 2009

Contact:  Randy Atkins, Senior Media Relations Officer

National Academy of Engineering

202-334-1508; e-mail <atkins@nae.edu>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

National Academy of Engineering Elects TREASURER and FOUR CouncilLors

WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Engineering has elected a new treasurer and four members to its governing Council.  All terms begin July 1, 2009.

Elected to a four-year term as treasurer is C. Dan MOTE JR., president and Glenn Martin Institute Professor of Engineering at the University of Maryland.  He succeeds William L. Friend, retired executive vice president of the Bechtel Group Inc., who has served two consecutive terms as treasurer, the maximum tenure allowed by the Academy’s bylaws.

CORALE L. BRIERLEY, principal of Brierley Consultancy LLC; and ARNOLD F. STANCELL, retired vice president of Mobil Oil and Turner Professor of Chemical Engineering Emeritus at the Georgia Institute of Technology, have been elected to three-year terms as councillors.  Re-elected to a second term as councillor are G. Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; and ROBERT F. SPROULL, vice president and Sun Fellow of Sun Microsystems Inc. 

Retiring councillor John Brooks Slaughter, president and chief executive officer of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, completed six continuous years of service, the maximum allowed under the Academy’s bylaws.  William F. Banholzer, executive vice president and chief technology officer of the Dow Chemical Co., served one three-year term as councillor and chose not to stand for re-election.

The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964 under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers.  It is autonomous in its administration and in the selection of its members, sharing with NAS the responsibility for advising the federal government.

NAE promotes the technological welfare of the nation by marshalling the knowledge and insights of eminent members of the engineering profession.

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