Jay Sunyogh Wins 2007 CAD Society Leadership Award
 DELAND,
Florida, March 20, 2007 - The CAD Society, not-for-profit CAD industry
association, today announced Rio Hondo College professor Jay Sunyogh as the
winner of its 2007 Leadership Award. The CAD Society recognized Sunyogh for
his contributions during his teaching career and his educational programs
aimed for underprivileged students.
In addition to his distinguished career as dedicated educator and
administrator, Sunyogh has chaired a CAD and drafting contest for over 50
Los Angeles high schools, including many from the inner city. “His inspiring
motivation – settings incentives and raising the bar to encourage students
to strive to improve themselves -- has been an influence on hundreds if not
thousands of young people,” says CAD Society President Marv Muston. The CAD
Society Award for Leadership is awarded to an individual in the CAD industry
whose outstanding technical and/or business leadership over the past year
has significantly contributed to the benefit of the CAD community.
Sunyogh is head of the department of architecture and computer aided
design at Rio Hondo Community College in Whittier, California. He has set up
and coordinates a program that offers introductory coursework in
architecture, civil design, and mechanical design. His program teaches
AutoCAD, MicroStation, SolidWorks, Rhinoceros, Autodesk Civil 3D, Bentley
InRoads, among other applications. He is chair of the advisory committee
that includes representatives from major industries in the Los Angeles area.
Sunyogh has worked to win grants for additional software and hardware
resources for the college, and is co-author of CAD-TUTOR, a series of high
school and college textbooks.
Sunyogh holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in industrial technology and a
Master’s Degree in vocational education from California State University in
Los Angeles.
The CAD Society is a not-for-profit industry association with the goal of
fostering a community and encouraging open communication among those who
make their living within the CAD industry including AEC, mechanical,
manufacturing and GIS. Annual CAD Society Awards are presented at the
Congress for the Future of Engineering Software, a yearly industry
conference.
About The CAD Society
The CAD Society (www.cadsociety.org)
is a not-for-profit industry association with the goal of fostering
community and encouraging open communication among those who make their
living within the CAD industry including AEC, mechanical, manufacturing, and
GIS. The CAD Society is dedicated to creating an informative community and
improving the tools its members employ in order to get their jobs done. This
is achieved by providing an open forum of communication, which helps to
illuminate the practices of industry vendors. It has been a leader in
creating interoperability guidelines that encourage software vendors to
develop applications that can openly share data.
About COFES
The seventh annual Congress on the Future of Engineering Software
(COFES), will take place at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort,
Scottsdale, Ariz., April 12-15, 2007. COFES, a mainstay event of the
engineering software industry, provides an intensive conference atmosphere
where private and public discussions are held. Attendees are executives, end
users, CAD and PLM vendors, analysts, and press who work together to
determine, define, and clarify the business issues of engineering
technologies.
COFES is an invitation-only event. To find out more information and to
request an invitation, please visit
www.cofes.com.
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