CANOGA PARK, Calif., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has been recognized by INROADS -- an international organization that helps corporations develop and place talented minority youth in business and industry and prepare them for corporate and community leadership. In addition, two Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne employees who are former INROADS interns were recognized by the organization for their achievements. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a United Technologies Corp. company.
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne received the 2009 INROADS Sponsoring Company of the Year Award at the Southwest Region's Annual Awards Banquet in Anaheim, Calif. The company was honored for exceeding all INROADS expectations by its commitment to the education and professional training of ethnically diverse college students by embracing them in the corporate culture through INROADS internships. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne sponsored 15 INROADS interns in the Southwest region in 2009.
"Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is extremely proud of this recognition," said Darold Sawyer, manager, Diversity and Equal Employment Opportunity Programs, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. "It demonstrates our ongoing commitment to INROADS as a source for quality, diverse talent in the Southwest region."
Two Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne employees also were honored. Zanea Taylor, a former INROADS intern who works as a Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Human Resources client manager supporting Supply Management, was nominated for Business Coordinator of the Year and Alumnus of the Year. Former INROADS Intern Tamuto Takakura was nominated for the Frank C. Carr Community Service Award, named in honor of the founder of INROADS.
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc., a part of Pratt & Whitney, is a preferred provider of high-value propulsion, power, energy and innovative system solutions used in a wide variety of government and commercial applications, including the main engines for the space shuttle, Atlas and Delta launch vehicles, missile defense systems and advanced hypersonic engines.
Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines. United Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., is a diversified company providing high technology products and services to the global aerospace and commercial building industries.
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Whitney Rocketdyne
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