Every year, Rockwell Collins employees nominate their peers for our company's highest engineering award. Out of all of the nominees, 50 are honored as semi-finalists, 10 go on to be recognized as finalists, and three are named corporate winners of the Engineer of the Year award.

The three corporate winners - along with the seven finalists - demonstrated outstanding technical creativity and innovative thinking in FY'08. To read additional details about their work, click on the links below.

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Corporate Engineer of the Year winners

Curt Moore
Government Systems

As a 12-year-old amateur radio enthusiast, Curt Moore learned of Collins Radio through ham radio magazines. Today, his passion for radio electronics and his leadership abilities are helping our company's ARC-210 program succeed.

Jan Heeren
Commercial Systems

As an instrument-rated pilot, Jan Heeren has a special passion for making flight controls better and easier to use. But it's her ability to rally people around a common cause that lines her path with success.

Brian Herting
Engineering & Technology

Brian Herting played an integral role in the development of two new antennas that will improve airborne weather radar systems.

Award finalists

Debbie Braid
Government Systems

Debbie Braid's ability to tailor a product to meet a public safety customer's unique need helped our company achieve an important foray in a new marketplace.

Jim Sabin
Government Systems

At a very young age, Jim Sabin dreamed of becoming an engineer. Now, as our company's systems architect for the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) Increment 1 program, he's working to make landings on aircraft carriers safer.

Kanu Salaria
Commercial Systems

Kanu Salaria has always been intrigued by the inner workings of machines. Now, as a senior systems engineer, she's putting that interest to work on the Pro Line Fusion avionics program.

Abbas Charafeddine
Commercial Systems

A childhood fascination with airplanes at the Beirut International Airport led Abbas Charafeddine to a career in engineering. Today, his innovative thinking is making air travel safer.

Kevin Armstrong
Rockwell Collins Services

Kevin Armstrong's innovative thinking helped our company deliver a faster, more efficient Stryker Maintenance Training System upgrade.

Joshua V. Davis
Engineering & Technology

Josh Davis increased our company's credibility and visibility in a new marketplace with his team's "nearly impossible" 30-day prototype.

Mark McEachran
e-Business

While in his teens, Mark McEachran began writing his own computer programs on a TI-99 computer. Today, his programming capabilities are helping our company improve efficiency and reduce costs on the manufacturing floor.

The photo of Abbas Charafeddine was taken by Laurel Hungerford of Costa Mesa, Calif. The photo of Kevin Armstrong was taken by Jonathan Cohen of Binghamton, N.Y. All of the other photos under "Top engineers" were taken by Paul Marlow of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.