Carroll Receives HENAAC’s Chairman’s Award

Carroll Receives HENAAC’s Chairman’s Award

BY DAVID MEDINA

Special to Rice News

Oct. 15, 1998

Rice University Engineering Professor Michael M. Carroll was recently honored
by the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference for promoting
educational opportunities for Hispanics in engineering.

Carroll received the Chairman’s Award at the 10th Annual Hispanic Engineer National
Achievement Awards Conference at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, in Houston’s Aerial
Theater at Bayou Place.

The event was sponsored by Rice University, the University of Houston, the University
of Houston Downtown, and government and corporate partners including NASA, Lockheed
Martin and Texas Instruments.

"To be honored by HENAAC and the Chairman’s Award is especially pleasing
to me because of my great affection for HENAAC and for Ray Mellado [HENAAC’s
chair]," said Carroll.

Carroll is former dean of Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering
and is the Burton J. and Ann M. McMurtry Professor of Engineering at Rice.

"HENAAC is about pride. It’s about role models for young people. It’s about
getting Hispanics into the engineering profession," Carroll explained.
"I don’t think our nation can afford to miss out on such a precious resource."

The conference was held over a three-day period at the Houston Doubletree Hotel,
the George R. Brown Convention Center, and the Aerial Theater at Bayou Place.
Students from middle school through college participated in career education
seminars and in networking sessions.