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.
