SVEC Engineers Week Banquet

2008 Scholarship Award Recipients:

Sandeep Chinchali		Dominic Molinari
Jesus Eduardo Contreras		Wendy Mu
Wesley Steven Cullumber		Sharin Shafian
Nancy Dougherty		Teera Songatikama
Johanna Knudsen		Katherine Soult
Akifumi Kobashi

SVEC Engineers Week Banquet and Engineering Education Awards depend greatly on the generosity of our sponsors:

Platinum Sponsors	Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International, SEMI
Silver Sponsors	Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., AMD BAE Systems Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, IEEE Lockheed Martin Corporation Northrop Grumman Marine Systems Tawny and Jerry Sanders
Bronze Sponsors	Intel Corporation KITECH USA Pipe Trades Training Center Santa Clara University
Special Sponsors	American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME

Sponsorships

We encourage you to help sponsor Engineers Week 2008

Platinum Sponsor - $15,000	Company Logo and half page Company Advertisement in Banquet Program Sponsorship Recognition in all Print Media and Promotional Material Two Banquet Tables with Premier Seating One Banquet Table for University Engineering Honor Students One Banquet Table for K-12 Science and Math teachers Two Engineering Student Scholarships Engineer’s Week and SVEC Special Project Support
Gold Sponsor - $10,000	Company Logo and Company Advertisement in Banquet Program Sponsorship Recognition in all Printed Media and Promotional Material Two Banquet Tables with Premier Seating One Banquet Table for University Engineering Honor Students Two Engineering Student Scholarships Engineer’s Week and SVEC Special Project Support
Silver Sponsor - $5,000	Company Logo and Company Advertisement in Banquet Program Sponsorship Recognition in all Printed Media and Promotional Material One Banquet Table with Premier Seating One Banquet Table for University Engineering Honor Students One Engineering Student Scholarship Engineer’s Week and SVEC Special Project Support
Bronze Sponsor - $2,500	Company Logo and Company Advertisement in Banquet Program Sponsorship Recognition in all Printed Media and Promotional Material One Banquet Table of Ten with Premier Seating Engineer’s Week and SVEC Special Project Support

Vendor display tables available at the reception ($300) or included with sponsorship

For further sponsorship and banquet information call Elise Engelhardt, (408) 360-0669, email: elise@workit.com
or KRS Murthy, Banquet Chair, (408) 464-3333, e-mail: drkrsmurthy@gmail.com

The SVEC gives special thanks to:

• SEMI for being the lead sponsor and hosting our annual November Open House
• Carl Cimino and Pipe Trades Training Center for hosting this year’s SVEC meetings
• Dr. Steven Kang, Chancellor, UC Merced, for his tireless support of SVEC
• Dr. Greg Papadopolous for graciously consenting to be our keynote speaker
• John Crump for graciously consenting to be our Master of Ceremonies
• San Jose State University students from ASME for registration help
• Dr. KRS Murthy for chairing the banquet
• Felicita Saiez and Barbara Roberts for keeping things on track and providing guidance
• Michael Wright for organizing registration and helping on virtually every committee
• Mark Koenig of VectorIP for designing/editing the program book
• Jill Wilker, Playing at Learning for FIRST Lego demonstration
• James Soboleski for Hall of Fame poster design
• Connie Fang for coordinating vendor relations
• Dave Licata for coordinating with Lockheed Martin
• William Adams, HOF Inductee 1998, and Mark Pedrazzi for coordinating with BAE
• Susan Maiers for coordinating with Mr. Sanders and with AMD
• Robert Hyde for coordinating with Northrop Grumman
• Rita Holiday for coordinating Intel volunteers for Engineers Week K-12 outreach
• Andrea Schwartz and Ryan Batty of Sun Microsystems for coordinating with Dr. Papadopolous
• DJ Cline for banquet photography
• Dave and Heather of The ComeUppance for music, Cheryl Gross for coordination
• Dr. Bernard Widrow, HOF Inductee 1999, for chairing the SVEC Hall of Fame committee
• Shawn Parker of the DoubleTree Hotel staff for banquet assistance
• Nancy Tubbs of FullCalendar for publicity
• Scholarship recipients for helping at registration table
• Ramon Martinez and Freddy Ngo for helping assemble name badges

“The Alliance for Engineering Leaders in Silicon Valley”

SVEC is dedicated, through a network of volunteers and local engineering societies, to meeting the needs of the engineers of today and of tomorrow.