Three from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center will be recognized at the 2010 Black Engineer of the Year Awards Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Global Competitiveness Conference.

The event is set for Feb. 18 in Baltimore.

Jonathon Griffin of ERDC’s Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory will receive the Modern Day Technology Leader Award. Patricia Sullivan, also of GSL, and Dr. Nicholas Jabari Lee of the Information Technology Laboratory will be recognized as TrailBlazers.

Griffin, a research civil engineer who joined ERDC in 2007 in the Airfields and Pavements branch, has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Memphis. He is pursuing a master’s degree through Mississippi State University. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Transportation Research Board and Society of Military Engineers. He teaches Proponent-Sponsored Engineer Corps Training (PROSPECT) classes.

Sullivan, who began her ERDC career in 1984, is a research civil engineer serving as a strategic assistant to GSL Director Dr. David Pittman. She has a bachelor’s from Tulane University and a master’s from MSU, both in civil engineering. She did doctoral study in geotechnical engineering at Louisiana State University and spent time as assistant technical director for Force Protection Maneuver Support. She is a member of the ASCE, Society of American Military Engineers, International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems and the American Society of Agronomy. She is on the advisory boards of the Department of Advanced Technology and the National Science Foundation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program Grant at Alcorn State University.

Lee, a physicist and a researcher on ERDC’s carbon nanotube team since 2007, has a bachelor’s in physics from Jackson State University and a master’s and doctorate in physics from LSU. He was a graduate research assistant at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

The annual awards conference is sponsored by the Council of Engineering Deans of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Lockheed Martin Corporation and U.S. Black Engineer and Information Technology magazine.