FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 27, 2005

Contact:Dr.Ted Lee CIE-USA, 732-335-0539 chongpi@msn.com

Engineers Week Asian American Engineer of the Year (AAEOY) Award Winners

Holmdel , NJ - American Chinese Institute of Engineers or CIE-USA today announces the winners of the 2005 National Engineers Week Asian American Engineer of the Year (AAEOY) Award. AAEOY will present the following two distinguished awards - Distinguished Science and Technology Award goes to Professor Daniel Tsui, Princeton University , 1998 Nobel Laureate in Physics and a member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and Distinguished Life Time Achievement Award goes to Professor Shu Chien, University of California-San Diego for his contribution in bioengineering research and education. The AAEOY 2005 award winners are:

AAEOY Awards:

• Mr. Paritosh Bajpay, Vice President of Information Services, AT&T
• Dr. Qi Bi, Bell Labs Fellow, Lucent Technologies
• Dr. Bei-dwo Chang, Senior Director, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, Raytheon Company
• Dr. Man-Feng Chang, Technical Fellow, GM
• Dr. Tze-Chiang Chen, Vice President, Science & Technology/IBM Fellow
• Dr. Ying J. Feria, Engineer/Scientist, Communications and Sensor System Engineering, The Boeing Company
• Dr. Ben Ho, Senior Process and Product Development Engineer, Exploration & Production Technology Group, BP
• Mr. Christopher Hoang Pham, the Pioneer and the Senior Manager of BOW (Beyond the Ordinary Way) Testing, Cisco Systems
• Dr. Quanxi Jia, Superconductivity Technology Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Professor Spencer Kuo, Director of Plasma Lab, Polytechnic University
• Ms. Duy-Loan T. Le, Senior Fellow, Texas Instruments
• Ms. Wei-san Lily O'Byrne, Vice President, System Design and Integration, Enterprise Information Services, Lockheed Martin Corporation
• Mr. Roger P. Sekijima, Manager of Electrical Design Requirements and Certification , The Boeing Company
• Dr. George Wang, Vice President, Systems Performance, IBM.
• Dr. Reo Yoshitani, Technology Director, Raytheon Missile Systems, Raytheon Company

Dr. Paul Horn, Senior VP of IBM Research will be the banquet keynote speaker. AAEOY2005 is the fourth year of it kind and the first time in four years to be held in the east cost at Hanover Marriott Hotel at Whippany , NJ at 6:30 pm on Feb. 26, 2005 . The event will gracefully welcome more than 5 hundred of attendees including the awardees families, company representatives, hundreds CIE friends, business persons, government representatives, news reporters, and interested groups around the country will attend the award ceremony in NJ.

For the banquet registration information, please visit www.cie-usa.org , or call Dr. Allen Chen, AAEOY award banquet chairman at 732-957-8889, e-mail c.j.chen@ieee.org. For news release information please call Dr. Ted Lee, CIE-USA National Council Chairman at 732-335-0539 or chongpi@msn.com for more information. CIE-USA, headquartered in Holmdel , NJ is a non-profit organization founded in 1917. There are six chapters in the United States – Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter, New Mexico Chapter, Greater NY Chapter, Seattle Chapter, and OCEESA - an Environmental Chapter.