PAESMEM Individual Award: George C. Lee

总统卓越科学、数学和工程指导奖（PAESMEM）表彰杰出的指导工作或项目，这些指导工作或项目增强了历史上未被充分代表的科学、数学和工程群体的参与。George C. Lee， Samuel Capen工程教授，纽约州立大学布法罗分校工程与应用科学学院前院长。他在多学科地震工程方面拥有国际公认的奖学金和领导地位，并且是提供和维持工程教育机会的领导者。近40年来，他的指导工作使布法罗地区数千名代表性不足的高中生接触到了工程和科学。一旦代表性不足的学生被工程与应用科学学院录取，李继续指导，鼓励学生在本科工程经历中取得成功。李还担任过大量代表性不足的研究生的首席顾问。他是BEAM（布法罗地区少数族裔工程意识组织）的主要创始成员，该组织的成员来自Omega Psi Phi，一个黑人职业男子国家兄弟会，以及布法罗城市学校。李设计、开发并获得了各种高效指导项目的资金，包括为5-12年级的学生和他们的老师提供研究实习；社区项目;以及领导力培训项目。

The Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) recognizes outstanding mentoring efforts or programs that enhance the participation of historically underrepresented groups in science, mathematics, and engineering.George C. Lee is Samuel Capen Professor of Engineering, and former dean of the school of engineering and applied sciences at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY). He has internationally recognized scholarship and leadership in multidisciplinary earthquake engineering, and is a leader in providing and sustaining educational opportunities in engineering. For nearly 40 years his mentoring efforts have led to thousands of underrepresented high school students in the greater Buffalo area being exposed to engineering and science. Once underrepresented students are enrolled in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Lee continues mentoring to encourage student success during the undergraduate engineering experience. Lee has also served as the principal advisor for a large number of underrepresented graduate students. He was the principal founding member of BEAM, Buffalo Area Engineering Awareness for Minorities, an organization whose membership draws on Omega Psi Phi, a black professional men's' national fraternity, and the Buffalo City Schools in addition to the SUNY Buffalo population. Lee has designed, developed and obtained funding for a wide variety of highly effective mentoring programs, including research internships for students in grades 5-12 and their teachers; community programs; and leadership training programs.