Sue Skemp Selected as New Chair of ASME Foundation Board of Directors
Sue Skemp Selected as New Chair of ASME Foundation Board of Directors
ASME Foundation has named ASME Past President Susan H. Skemp as the new chair of the ASME Foundation Board of Directors.
Skemp, an ASME Fellow who notably became the second female president in the history of ASME during her 2002-2003 term, has already had a tremendous influence in helping to elevate the role of the ASME Foundation. In addition to having served as vice chair for the Foundation's Board of Directors and speaking at numerous events on behalf of the Foundation, Skemp is a founding member of both the Foundation's donor societies — the Alexander Holley Society and the Archimedes Club.
During her 32 years as an ASME member, Skemp has actively shown her dedication and commitment to ASME and the engineering profession. In 1991, she earned the ASME Dedicated Service Award for unusual dedicated voluntary service to the Society marked by outstanding performance, demonstrated effective leadership, prolonged and committed service, devotion, enthusiasm and faithfulness. Upon completing her term as president and retiring from Pratt & Whitney where she had started her engineering career in the 1960s, Skemp served as an ASME White House Federal Fellow from 2004-2006 in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she provided technical advice in coordinating the federal investment in research and development in manufacturing innovation, engineering education, STEM, aerospace, and technology transition.
Skemp's professional career has been a continuum from industry to government, professional association, and now to academia. She currently serves as the executive director of the Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center at Florida Atlantic University, where she works on testing and evaluating the potential of ocean currents to create electricity through ocean current hydrokinetic and ocean thermal energy conversion.
In addition to leading the ASME Foundation Board of Directors, Skemp is chair of the Ralph Coats Roe Medal Committee, and serves on the ASME Committee of Past Presidents and the Kate Gleason Award Committee.
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