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Contact:
Jane Albright,
919/515-4380
June
30, 2003
Helmlinger
to Lead National Society of Professional Engineers
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Teresa
A. Helmlinger, P.E., of Fuquay-Varina, assistant
vice chancellor for extension
and engagement and executive director of the
Industrial
Extension Service (IES) at North Carolina
State University, will be inaugurated president
of the National Society of Professional Engineers
(NSPE) in San Antonio on July 12. She will be
the first woman and the first engineer from North
Carolina to hold the office.
NSPE, founded in 1934, is the only engineering
society that represents individual engineering
professionals and licensed engineers across all
disciplines. It serves 60,000 members through
53 state and territorial societies and more than
500 chapters. Helmlinger has held the offices
of president and national director of the Professional
Engineers of North Carolina. |
Teresa
A. Helmlinger
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Helmlinger joined NC State as IES executive
director in 1999 and is the first woman to hold the
position. She led IES through a reorganization to better
serve the state’s manufacturers and assist in
the state’s economic development and recovery.
IES was created in 1955 by the College
of Engineering to bring engineering expertise to the
state’s manufacturers. In the past three years
IES has returned $302 million in direct annual gain
to the state, either in jobs saved or profits made,
as reported by the clients served.
From 1979 to 1998, Helmlinger was director
of commercial/industrial market development at Progress
Energy, formerly Carolina Power and Light, in Raleigh.
Helmlinger received her bachelor’s
degree in engineering operations from NC State in 1978
and her master’s of business administration from
Duke University in 1985.
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