Hockenberry Wins AAES Engineering Journalism Award

Hockenberry Wins AAES Engineering Journalism Award Hockenberry Wins AAES Engineering Journalism Award Hockenberry Wins AAES Engineering Journalism Award John Hockenberry (focus), champ of the 2015 AAES Engineering Journalism Award victor, was joined by (left to right) ASME Executive Director Thomas G. Loughlin, Past President Madiha El Mehelmy Kotb, Immediate Past President J. Robert Sims, and ASME President Julio C. Guerrero at the function on April 20. (Photograph by Granted Photography) The American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) as of late respected honor winning TV, link and radio grapple John Hockenberry with its renowned 2015 AAES Engineering Journalism Award for his work in advancing the designing callings sway on society. The honor was introduced to Hockenberry at the AAES Annual Awards Banquet and Ceremony on April 20 in Washington, D.C. Hockenberry was chosen to get the honor for his extraordinary commitments to improve open comprehension of measures creation and the designing calling. These undertakings included facilitating Meeting the Standard, a four-section arrangement examining ASMEs exercises in the region of codes and stands that circulated on his radio program The Takeaway in January 2014, and directing the ASME Decision Point Dialog meeting Critical Thinking, Critical Choices: What Really Matters in STEM, which commenced the U.S. News STEM Solutions Conference in Washington, D.C., in April 2014. Hockenberry was named for the honor by ASME Executive Director Thomas G. Loughlin, who went to the AAES feast. ASME President Julio C. Guerrero, Immediate Past President J. Robert Sims and Past President Madiha El Mehelmy Kotb additionally spoke to the Society at the service. A three-time Peabody Award victor and four-time Emmy champ, Hockenberry is the maker, host and co-overseeing manager of The Takeaway, a morning radio news program that was co-delivered by WNYC-New York Public Radio and Public Radio International as a team with article accomplices The New York Times and WGBH Radio in Boston. Notwithstanding his various expert acknowledgments, Hockenberry is additionally a beneficiary of the ASME Presidents Award, which is introduced to unmistakable people, industry, government organizations or to schools and colleges that havedemonstrated critical commitments to the building calling and to innovative progression. During his recognized profession, which has traversed over 30 years, Hockenberry has likewise filled in as a journalist for Dateline NBC, stay of the MSNBC programs Hockenberry and Edgewise, reporter for the ABC News arrangement Day One, host of the National Public Radio bring in program Talk of the Nation, and NPRs Middle-East department boss and journalist, among other eminent assignments. Hockenberry, who was named to the White House Fellows Commission by President Barack Obama in 2009, is additionally the creator of a novel, A River Out of Eden, and a life account, Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence.