HII pair earn SASE leader awards

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A pair of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) employees from it’s the Ingalls Shipbuilding and Newport News Shipbuilding received achievement awards Oct. 4 during the 2018 Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE) National Conference and STEM Career Fair. The STEM fair is the largest conference and career fair for Asian Americans in America. The conference was held in Schaumburg, Ill. Conlan Hsu, a structural engineer at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., received the ERG Leadership award recognizing a person who has/is serving in a leadership capacity for HII’s Asian Pacific Islander employee resource group, and the overall impact of their involvement in advancing the mission of the ERG and influencing the company’s support for their API employees. Dede Dolkar, a material process engineer at Newport News Shipbuilding, received the Promising Professional award. SASE was founded in 2007 for Asian heritage scientific and engineering professionals.(Source: HII 10/04/18)