Английская Википедия:Diana Bendz
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use list-defined references Diana J. Knight Bendz is an American polymer scientist and environmental and industrial engineer who has promoted environmentally-conscious manufacturing processes in her work at IBM, and promoted the participation of women and girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Education and career
Bendz earned a bachelor's degree in 1968, jointly from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) and from Syracuse University. She was the first woman to graduate from the SUNY ESF program in polymer chemistry.Шаблон:R
She came to work for IBM as an electronics packaging engineer,Шаблон:R and continued there for 39 years,Шаблон:R finishing her career as senior location executive for IBM's research facility in Endicott, New York.Шаблон:R As director of environmentally conscious products for IBM, she led the incorporation of recycled materials into IBM personal computers;Шаблон:R she also worked on a program to recycle old computers, led an IBM taskforce on environmental leadership, and pushed IBM to donate land to environmental organizations and to participate in eco-industrial parks.Шаблон:R She also founded the IEEE Technical Committee on Electronics and the Environment,Шаблон:R the IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment,Шаблон:R and the Electronics Recycling Summit.Шаблон:R
While still at IBM, Bendz worked with Joan L. Mitchell and others in an IBM program aimed at promoting engineering to middle school girls.Шаблон:R After retiring, she founded and ran Girls Balance the Equation, a nonprofit organization with similar goals.Шаблон:R
Recognition
In 1984, the IEEE gave Bendz their Centennial Key-to-the-Future Award.Шаблон:R She is also a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, and of the Environmental Progress Individual Award of the Environmental Issues Council of the Electronic Industries Association. Bendz was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 1997, "for leadership and contributions to electronics manufacturing and to environmental impact and policy".Шаблон:R
In 2015, SUNY ESF gave her their Graduates of Distinction Lifetime Achievement Award.Шаблон:R
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