Capt. Kent W. Hamlin, P.E.
Hamlin was a program evaluator from the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and then went on to represent ANS on the ABET Technology Accreditation Commission in 2008. He was serving his third year in this capacity at the time of his death.
Hamlin was President of KWH Associates, LLC, in Powder Springs, GA, having recently retired from the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations after nearly 28 years with the organization. In addition, he was a retired United States Navy Captain.
Elizabeth A. Judson, Ph.D.
Judson had been associated with ABET for more than 10 years. She represented the American Ceramic Society (National Institute of Ceramic Engineers) on the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) from 2005 to 2010 and was serving as a 2010-11 Member-at-Large on the EAC at the time of her death.
Judson was a consultant to the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership of the National Academies as well as a general manager of a ceramic armor start-up company associated with Georgia Tech.
Robert M. Laurenson, III, P.E.
At the time of his death, Laurenson was a representative director from ASME (formerly the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) on the ABET Board of Directors. An ABET volunteer since 1985, Laurenson was a member of the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) and later chaired EAC for the 2005-06 accreditation cycle. Also, he played a pivotal role in improving and implementing ABET's volunteer recruitment and selection practices.
Laurenson had a 37-year career with The Boeing Company, and after his retirement, he served as a consultant to ASME and to numerous engineering firms in the Washington, D.C., area.
David R. Reyes-Guerra, Ph.D., P.E.
Reyes-Guerra was ABET's first Executive Director from 1973 to 1993. He joined ABET's predecessor organization, the Engineer's Council for Professional Development (ECPD), as its Guidance Director in 1967 and served as its Executive Secretary from 1971 to 1973. In his 20 years as ECPD/ABET Executive Director, Reyes-Guerra helped establish the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB) in the mid-1980s, was principal investigator for two National Science Foundation awards, and was named an ABET Fellow in 1990.
More recently, he was the co-founder of the Pan American Academy of Engineering as well as a permanent and active contributor to the Pan American Union of Engineering Organizations (UPADI).
Donald B. Sanderson, Ph.D.
Sanderson was a recognized expert in program assessment and had been associated with ABET for many years. He began his association with ABET as a volunteer in 2004 and completed ABET's Institute for the Development of Excellence in Assessment Leadership (IDEAL) in 2006. Sanderson was a popular presenter at the Best Assessment Processes Symposia and ABET Symposia, and recently, he had selected to lead ABET's regional Program Assessment Workshops.
At the time of his death, Sanderson was a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences in the College of Business and Technology at East Tennessee State University (ETSU).