2020 Issue

13 Leslie Morton ENGINEER OF THE YEAR NOMINEE Leslie Morton, P.E., ENV SP ACEC • Leslie served as civil engineer of record for the Winter Olympic Games in 2002, and was project manager on over 16 venues. • In 2009 Leslie received recognition from Utah Busi- ness magazine. She was included on their 40 Under 40 list of Utah’s rising stars • She has been involved in over 60 projects at the University of Utah. • She was one of the first female principals at Psomas, a top 150 Design Firm. • Engineering team leader for the State of Utah • Regional manager for Psomas in Utah ENGINEER OF THE YEAR NOMINEE Melvin Clay Rumsey AIAA • Engineering Lead for Emergency Power systems for the United States Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) ground support (Missile silos and command centers), and until very recently, he was the functional manager for a team of electrical engineers • Mathematics instructor, Eagle Gate College. Subjects include linear equations, exponents and polynomials, rational expressions and functions, roots and radicals, systems of equations, quadratic equations, logarithmic functions, conversions, etc. • Clay is known as the “rocket man” to students of schools in the Davis and Weber School District due to his engineering talks and rocket outreach projects Jed Lyman with Melvin Clay Rumsey ENGINEER OF THE YEAR NOMINEE Mark L. Christensen, P.E., M. ASCE ASCE • Twenty-seven years of engineering experience with public infrastructure • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) • Utah City Engineers Association (UCEA) • American Council of Engineers Companies (ACEC) of Utah, Ethics Committee • National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES), P.E. Civil Exam Committee • Past chair of Mountainland Association of Govern- ments Technical Advisory Committee “Mark is a great teacher, but I am more impressed with him as a great learner. He is confident in his abilities, yet humble and quick to admit, and resolve, a rare mistake. He is a patient coach and mentor, having shaped the careers of many young professionals.” Jed Lyman with Mark L. Christensen P.E., M. ASCE