Tezak Receives Frederick Berger Award

Edward Tezak, SUNY (State
University of New York) Distinguished Service Profess of mechanical engineering
technology at Alfred State College received the Frederick J. Berger Award from
the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) at a special awards
ceremony at the organization's annual conference and exposition in Honolulu in June.

The award recognizes both an individual and a
school or department for demonstrating outstanding leadership in curriculum,
techniques, or administration in engineering technology education.

Tezak was
recognized for "his work at the forefront to advance engineering technology and
to obtain an identity and recognition for engineering technology, apart from
engineering.  A long-time advocate in
engineering technology, he is active on the national, state, and campus levels,
promoting and enhancing the profession. 
He is a leader and integral part of the programs at Alfred State
College," noted the letter from ASEE notifying the college of Tezak's
award.

Tezak has
been affiliated with ASEE since 1984, having served as campus liaison
representative for the US Military Academy at West Point until 1990, and was
recognized as the 19990 Outstanding Section Campus Liaison Representative for
the Middle Atlantic Section.  He served
the ASEE Mechanics Division as a member of the Executive Committee, program
chair and division chair.  He served on
the ASEE Board of Directors as the PIC III chair.  He has been affiliated with the Engineering
Technology Division (ETD) since 1993 and has worked on the two- and four-year
ETD surveys and with the ETD long-range planning committee.  He represented SUNY Institute of Technology
at Utica/Rome and Alfred State College on the Engineering Technology
Council.  Tezak served as the campus
liaison representative for ASC.  He
received the Outstanding Educator Award in 2001 from the ASEE St. Lawrence
Section.   He served as the ETD assistant
program chair for the ASEE annual conference for the Engineering Technology
Division in Montreal and the ETD program chair
for the annual conference in Nashville.  Since 2004, Tezak has served as secretary of
the ETD.

Prior to
returning to teaching in 1999, Tezak served as dean of the School of Engineering
Technology at Alfred State College and as dean of
the School of Information Systems and Engineering
Technology at the SUNY Institute of Technology in Utica/Rome.  He served on the staff and faculty at the US
Military Academy (USMA) at West Point for 20
years and was on two ABET Accreditation Steering Committees.  He was a tenured faculty member of the
Department of Mechanics at USMA, and served as associate dean of the Academic
Board during the last four-and-a-half years of his tenure there.  His academic interests are engineering
mechanics, mechanics of materials, fluid mechanics, graphics/CAD,
electromechanical analysis, computer applications, vibrations, and space
mechanics.  He has been a member of ASME (American
Society of Mechanical Engineers) since 1977 and an MET ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and
Technology) program evaluator since 2002.

Tezak has
been active in the NYS Engineering Technology Association, NYSETA, as well as
serving as the institutional representative on the Council for Engineering
Technology for New York
State, CETNYS, both at
SUNY Institute of Technology-Utica/Rome and Alfred State College.  He has been a member-at-large on the
executive committee of ETA since 2000 and secretary/treasurer of CETNYS since
2000.

Tezak
holds a bachelor of science degree in engineering from the US Military Academy,
a master of science degree in engineering (astrodynamics) from UCLA, and a PhD
from VPI&SU in engineering mechanics. 
He obtained his PE from the state of Virginia.