Texnikoi Outstanding Alumni Award

Texnikoi is an organization of undergraduate students in The Ohio State University's College of Engineering whose purpose is to recognize qualities of leadership, integrity, and personality as exemplified by active participation and leadership in extracurricular activities. Each year the active membership of Texnikoi selects one of the younger alumni of the College of Engineering as a recipient of the Texnikoi Outstanding Alumni Award. This award is based upon their achievements since graduation, evaluated in light of the objectives of Texnikoi.

2002 Texnikoi Outstanding Alumna Award

Nancy C. Porter received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Welding Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1985. Nancy is Ohio Programs Manager, Government Programs Office, Edison Welding Institute. As a student, she was a five year member of the OSU Marching Band, Tau Beta Sigma National Honorary Band Sorority, and the student chapter of the American Welding Society.

Following graduation she joined Pratt & Whitney as a process planning engineer in manufacturing operations, troubleshooting various welding processes. She continued her studies and completed the company's two year manufacturing engineering development program. Ms. Porter joined Komatsu Dresser Company in 1989. She was a design engineer and a welding engineer for this global manufacturer of road construction equipment.

Ms. Porter returned to Columbus in 1994 to become a part of the Edison Welding Institute. In this capacity, she worked with sixteen national Manufacturing Extension Partnership Centers playing a key role in the development and success of the National Excellence in Materials Joining Initiative's JoinNet Program. She managed the JoinNet Program, created/supervised outreach agent training, taught technical seminars, and visited manufacturers nationwide providing direct access to EWI's services.

Ms. Porter currently manages defense projects for the Navy Joining Center (NJC), coordinates alignment activities for the presidents of seven Ohio Edison Centers, works closely with the Technical Division of the Ohio Department of Development (for EWI and the Edison Program Centers and Incubators), as well as, serving as Recording Secretary for EWI's Board of Trustees.

Nancy Porter leads an ongoing fundraising effort for The Ohio State Welding Engineering Program. She serves on the External Advisory Committee for the Department of Industrial, Welding and Systems Engineering. She is an active board member of the OSU Welding Engineering Alumni Society and is Immediate Past President of that organization. Nancy is also a member of TBDBITL, a life member of the OSU Alumni Association and a seventeen year member of the American Welding Society.

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