David Woodroffe Allen

Director | Officer | Principal Engineer (Retired)

A Timeline of Professional Milestones

1944

Born to Edward DeWalt Allen and Julia Woodroffe (Lamb) Allen in Hampton, IA.

1967

Earns a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from Grinnell College.

1967

Serves Westinghouse Electric Corp. in Sharon, PA as an associate engineer, engineer and senior engineer until 1984.

1973

Marries Barbara Ann Schneider on September 15.

1974

Achieves a Master of Science in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh.

1981

Serves as section secretary-treasurer of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers until 1982.

1984

Serves Westinghouse Electric Corp. in Pittsburgh, PA as senior computer scientist, principal engineer, and fellow engineer until 1996.

1989

Receives the George Westinghouse Signature Award of Excellence and again in 1992.

1991

Serves as treasurer of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Silicon Graphics Users Group of Western Pennsylvania until 1994.

1993

Receives the George Westinghouse Innovation Award.

1996

Starts a new company, Propulsor Technology, Inc., with three other Westinghouse engineers.

1996

Is a director, officer and principal engineer at Propulsor Technology, Inc. in Pittsburgh, PA until 2020.

1998

Receives the James S. Cogswell Award for Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement.

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