Utah Engineers Journal 2021 Issue

28 Fresh Face of Engineering Nominee Lingkun Li City of South Salt Lake Nominated by ASCE Lingkun has been involved with ASCE since 2014 when he joined as a student member. In 2017, he joined the ASCE Young Member Forum (YMF) and accepted the position of President in June 2018. During his term as President- elect, he arranged the Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 PE Review Course and volunteered to serve in a Ronald McDonald House event and assisted the President in YMF and Section board meetings. During his term as President, he oversaw the YMF budget and socials and successfully brought the Western Region Younger Member Council (WRYMC) Conference to Utah for 2022. Achievements include: • Master of Science in Civil Engineering, University of Utah • Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, China Lingkun Li Fresh Face of Engineering Nominee Breanna Whiteleather Career highlights include the following: • He investigated smog-eating concrete for UDOT. • He served as the president of the American Concrete Institute, University of Utah Student Chapter. • He volunteered at the Ronald McDonald House, helped during national engineering-week activities, and judged youth students through the University of Utah Science and Engineering Fair. • He has been acctive in public and engineering organizations, including the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Public Works Association (APWA), the American Concrete Institute (ACI), and the Utah City Engineer Association (UCEA). • His professional work includes the following projects: the Provo-Orem BRT Asphalt Quality Assurance, the University of Utah Hospital expansion, the Ogden Library, Fitts Park, State Street Lighting Expansion, and the Fire Station 42 Parking Lot. Breanna Whiteleather Lockheed Martin Nominated by INCOSE Breanna Whiteleather has been an electrical engineer for three years and interned for three years before that. She gained her bachelor’s degree in December 2017. Achievements include: • B.S., Electrical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics, Weber State University • INCOSE AS EP certification Career highlights include the following: • At BAE Systems, she was involved in the Acquisition Program for ICBMs. The program replaces and updates systems needed for the test launches at Vandenburg Air Force Base. She then transitioned to testing the new and current systems for the Minuteman III Missile. She also became involved with BAE System’s model-based systems engineering (MBSE) initiative. Her goal was making digital engineering more mainstream within the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) community. • At BAE Systems, she won the Business Leader Award and the Air Force Quarterly Team Award. • She is a systems engineer at Lockheed Martin. She works as the Survivability Task Team Lead, specializing in nuclear hardness and survivability.