Distinguished Engineering Alumnus
Award Recipient
Stuart Edward White — 2010
This distinguished graduate earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering operations in 1978 from North Carolina State University. In 1980, he founded Utility Translation Systems, Inc. (UTS), a successful remote meter-reading software company. He sold UTS to Itron, Inc. in 1996 and served as Itron’s chairman of the board until retiring in 2003.
White currently serves as chairman of the board of Field2Base, Inc., a technology company that uses tablet PCs, wireless communications and Field2Base software to support the mobile work force for a variety of industries. He is also the founder of White Ventures LLC, a private equity and commercial real estate development company. White serves as chairman of the board for GRIDiant, Inc. and on the boards of directors for several other organizations.
He is an outspoken ambassador for NC State, a member of the W.H. Page Lifetime Giving Society and the creator, with his wife, Kathy, of a Charitable Remainder Trust to benefit the College of Engineering. He also serves on the NC State Engineering Foundation Board of Directors and is its immediate past president.
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