Wednesday, October 9, 2013

TCAT-McKenzie Student Wins Prestigious Award


TCAT-McKenzie Student Wins Prestigious Award

 

                The ELECTRONICS TECHNICIANS ASSOCIATION, INT’L is honoring Mr. Gary Dueland with their highest annual award, the prestigious “Norris R. Browne Technician of the Year” award.  This award is given for outstanding service to electronics technicians as a top technician who represents the ETA principles of always striving to learn more about the electronics industry, serving your fellow technicians by teaching or mentoring them and holding yourself to the highest level of professionalism possible.  Mr. Dueland’s peers nominated him as the person who exemplified these traits in his everyday work, and based on their recommendations, he was selected as the obvious choice for this year’s award.

                This is an award given annually by ETA-I, named in honor of the late Norris R. Browne.  Norris R. Bowne was president of the National Electronics Association (NEA) and a service business owner.  He worked hard to assure the professionalism of the independent technician be maintained and championed.  His goal was to promote electronics to the best of his ability.  The Norris R. Browne Memorial -Technician of the Year award is presented annually to an individual that is recognized as having similar knowledge and character.

                Mr. Dueland’s award will be announced and presented to him on October 17, 2013 at the ETA-I Annual Awards Banquet held at the Inn at DePauw, Greencastle, Indiana as part of the Education Forum.

                Gary is a graduate of the TN College of Applied Technology in McKenzie. He received a diploma as an Electronics Engineering Technician with Green Technology.  He is currently employed as a Solar Technician with Blue Sky Solar.  Mr. Dueland is a resident of Puryear, TN.

                TCAT-McKenzie is excited for Gary’s accomplishments and extremely proud of his achievement in winning this award.

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