San Fernando : Councilman Honored by Engineers’ Group
San Fernando City Councilman Raul Godinez was honored along with scientists from NASA, Rockwell Space Systems, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and others by the Los Angeles Council of Engineers and Scientists.
Godinez, an engineer in the Los Angeles Department of Public Works, received the council’s prestigious “Outstanding Community Service” award last month.
Organizers cited Godinez’s work on behalf of community activists to get the city of San Fernando to adopt an ordinance restricting the number of liquor stores in town.
The award also means Godinez will be inducted as a fellow of the Institute for the Advancement for Engineering for one year.
Other recipients of LACES awards this year include JPL’s William J. O’Neil, designer of a trajectory and navigation system for the spacecraft Surveyor, the first soft-landing lunar-space vehicle; Patrick Melia, an aerospace engineer at the NASA--Ames Research Center; Cordelia Ontiveros, an executive fellow in the office of the chancellor at Cal State University, and Elva Donnell, manager of affirmative action and community programs at Rockwell’s space systems division in Downey.
Godinez earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at Cal State Northridge. He has been a San Fernando councilman since April 1994.
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