SPE® Selects Lawrence Burns from GM to Receive Global Engineering Leadership Award
TROY, (DETROIT) MICH. - Lawrence (Larry) Burns, vice-president, Research & Development and Strategic Planning at General Motors Corp. (GM) is the 2007 recipient of the SPE® Automotive Division's Global Executive Engineering Leadership Award. Burns will be fêted at this year's 37th-annual SPE Automotive Innovation Awards Gala on November 7 at Burton Manor (www.burtonmanor.net/) in Livonia, Mich. He is the second GM executive to be named to an executive leadership award by the SPE Automotive
Division in 2007.
The Global Executive Engineering Leadership Award was created to recognize an executive who has exhibited outstanding engineering leadership throughout his/her career and is considered to be an "Automotive All-Star" within the global transportation industry. Candidates are evaluated on their overall leadership in engineering roles throughout their careers, as well as the success of their performance in these roles, such as the number of new vehicles the candidate championed, had significant involvement in, or launched. This is the newest honor in SPE‟s lineup of executive leadership awards and it was first given last year to Chris P. Theodore, vice-chairman of American Specialty Cars (ASC).
