{"id":127,"date":"2015-02-27T20:47:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T20:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mimenews\/?p=127"},"modified":"2016-11-11T20:50:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T20:50:18","slug":"academy-distinguished-engineers-wesley-d-snyder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mimenews\/2015\/02\/27\/academy-distinguished-engineers-wesley-d-snyder\/","title":{"rendered":"Academy of distinguished engineers: Wesley D. Snyder"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Wesley
B.S. Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, 1994
Vice President, Engineering A-dec Newberg, Oregon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hearing his story, Wes Snyder might just be the envy of any engineering student anywhere. It may seem as if he has lived a charmed life. But in his mind, it has been perseverance that has served him most. As a student participant in MECOP (Multiple Engineering Cooperative Program), Snyder completed a six-month internship at A-dec, one of the largest dental equipment manufacturers in the world. A-dec was obviously impressed with his work, because promptly after he graduated the company hired him as a manufacturing engineer. The perseverance, skills, knowledge, and ability to problem solve he developed as a student provided the foundation for his steady climb to a vice presidency within 18 years. Although Snyder sometimes misses the hands on work of an engineer, he is happy in his chosen path. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have anticipated as a graduate that I would be interested in a leadership role,\u201d said Snyder. \u201cI\u2019ve been blessed with great opportunities at a great company. I\u2019ve found that whatever job I held in engineering, I was always able to recognize that I could be a positive influence on others, and that\u2019s been really rewarding.\u201d He said he is glad to be able to support the engineering team at A-dec. \u201cI\u2019m honored to be in a position that can help preserve our culture and continue our legacy of great product introductions,\u201d he said. After establishing himself in his career, Snyder began giving back to MECOP as a mentor and board representative, helping engineering students gain real-world experience so they, too, can realize their dreams.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t have anticipated as a graduate that I would be interested in a leadership role.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hearing his story, Wes Snyder might just be the envy of any engineering student anywhere. It may seem as if he has lived a charmed life. But in his mind, it has been perseverance that has served him most. As a student participant in MECOP (Multiple Engineering Cooperative Program), Snyder completed a six-month internship at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1135206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumninews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb5IIW-23","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mimenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mimenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mimenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mimenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mimenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mimenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mimenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mimenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mimenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mimenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}