In 1997, he was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Award for Chemical EngineeringPractice, and in 1992 was named Black Engineer of the Year.
"In the next five years we're going to see more and more exoskeletons out there inpractice, " says Sugar, associate professor at the Department of Engineering, Arizona State University.
The bulk of jobs growth here will be in low to medium-skilled jobs, Sissons says, putting the technologies gleaned from high-skilled engineering into practice.