SIUE School of Engineering Alumnus Earns Lifetime Achievement Award
April 27, 2017, 10:30 AM
The Institute of Navigation (ION) has presented SIUE School of Engineering (SOE) alumnus Charles Phillip Bruner with the esteemed Captain P.V.H. Weems Award for his contributions to the art and science of navigation.
The award honors the late Capt. Weems, who is credited with having patented the first method of performing navigation in space.
Bruner earned a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the SOE in 1971. Upon receipt of the 2016 Weems Award, the ION detailed his distinguished career in a news announcement posted on ion.org.
Photo: SIUE School of Engineering alumnus Charles Phillip Bruner earned the 2016 Weems Award from the Institute of Navigation.
