))) ASME Honors Julie Spicer England of Texas Instruments with Henry Laurence Gantt Medal

))) DALLAS, TX (October 18, 2004)

Julie Spicer England, a resident of Dallas, a vice president at Texas Instruments and general manager of its RFID Business, will be honored by ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) and the American Management Association. England will receive the Henry Laurence Gantt Medal in recognition of distinguished achievements in management and outstanding service to the community.

The medal will be awarded to England during ASME's 2004 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and RD&D Expo, which is being held in Anaheim, Calif., Nov. 13 through 19.

England joined Texas Instruments (TI) in 1979 and has been general manager of TI's RFID (radio frequency identification) business since 2004. She has been a TI vice president since 1994. In her current position, she has the challenge of growing a business that provides automated identification technology to the supply chain of the Fortune 1000. Her engineering and operations team, and extended TI team of 200, is located in Dallas; Freising, Germany; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

England is the co-inventor of six U.S. patents related to infrared focal plane array process technology. Her infrared patent work was used to increase night vision sensitivity in hand-held weapons and guidance systems used by the U.S. in the Gulf War and subsequent military conflicts.

As one of the top women in the U.S. technology industry, England is an inspiration to women pursuing careers in technical and managerial fields. An active role model, mentor, supporter and champion of women, England brings issues to light and breaks through barriers to ensure progress. She is one of the founding members of the Women of TI Fund, specifically created to funnel contributions into programs that help girls pursue careers in math, science and engineering through the Dallas Women's Foundation. She also developed a mentoring workshop, "Have the Tools, Know the Rules," which she has presented to more than 1,000 TI employees and several major technology corporations.

England has committed a significant amount of her time to business and civic organizations, and the community and university arena. She just completed a six-year tenure as a member of the board of directors for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. She served on the boards of the Women's Center of Dallas, International Women's Forum, Executive Women's Alliance and the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce's Executive Women's Business Roundtable and Texas Women's Venture Fund. She is well known at Texas Tech University for her support of the College of Engineering and of women students in particular. She is a member of Texas Tech's Rawls College of Business Advisory Council. She is also the founder of the 3/2 Program at Texas Women's University, a creative collaboration between industry and universities designed to inspire and assist women in pursuing careers in engineering.

England earned her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, in 1979, and is a graduate of Stanford University's Executive Program in Strategy and Organization.

Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, today's ASME is a 120,000-member professional organization focused on technical, educational and research issues of the engineering and technology community. The ASME Honors and Awards Program is funded through the ASME Foundation by individual award and endowment funds.