June 30, 2003

Helmlinger to Lead National Society of Professional Engineers

- from NC State News Services

Helmlinger

Teresa A. Helmlinger, P.E., of Fuquay-Varina, assistant vice chancellor for extension and engagement and executive director of the Industrial Extension Service (IES) at North Carolina State University, will be inaugurated president of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) in San Antonio on July 12. She will be the first woman and the first engineer from North Carolina to hold the office.

NSPE, founded in 1934, is the only engineering society that represents individual engineering professionals and licensed engineers across all disciplines. It serves 60,000 members through 53 state and territorial societies and more than 500 chapters. Helmlinger has held the offices of president and national director of the Professional Engineers of North Carolina.

Helmlinger joined NC State as IES executive director in 1999 and is the first woman to hold the position. She led IES through a reorganization to better serve the state’s manufacturers and assist in the state’s economic development and recovery.

IES was created in 1955 by the College of Engineering to bring engineering expertise to the state’s manufacturers. In the past three years IES has returned $302 million in direct annual gain to the state, either in jobs saved or profits made, as reported by the clients served.

From 1979 to 1998, Helmlinger was director of commercial/industrial market development at Progress Energy, formerly Carolina Power and Light, in Raleigh.

Helmlinger received her bachelor’s degree in engineering operations from NC State in 1978 and her master’s of business administration from Duke University in 1985.

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