MeetThe Engineers Week 2009 Chairs!

Kathryn A. Gray, P.E.
National Society of Professional Engineers
Chair
Engineers Week 2009

Kathryn A. Gray, P.E., F.NSPE is president and CEO of GrayTech Software, Inc. in Wheaton, IL, which she founded in 1983 to provide low cost CAD software. She has grown the company to include custom programming services, engineering software applications, software consulting services as well as CAD software development for clients here and abroad.

Ms. Gray served as 2005-2006 president of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) and currently serves as Chair of the NSPE Past President Council. She is Chair of the 2008-2009 National Engineers Week (NEW) Steering Committee and serves on the NEW Foundation. She represents NSPE on the Board of the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES), and serves on the national Software Engineering Licensure Consortium. She has served as chair of the NSPE Executive Committee, Board of Directors, Legislative Educational Fund Board of Trustees, the Budget Committee, Candidate Screening Committee, and the Strategic Planning Task Force, and has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the NSPE Educational Foundation. For many years Ms. Gray has been an active mentor of young engineers, especially minorities and women, and engineers in career transition, and strongly promotes improved K-12 STEM education initiatives. In 2004 Ms. Gray was named a Fellow member of NSPE, the Society’s highest, most honored level of membership.

Ms. Gray is a long time member of the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers (ISPE) where she has served as state president, national director and chair of the ISPE Foundation. She served on the Advisory Board to the University of Illinois as chair of the Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE), and on the Illinois JETS Board. In 2002 Ms. Gray received the ISPE highest award, the “Illinois Award”, for exceptional service to the engineering profession.

After attending Fairfield University in Connecticut for two years as a math major, Ms. Gray transferred as a junior to the engineering school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign, receiving her Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering. She worked as a design engineer for Harza Engineering Company in Chicago and on the Board of A.McGurr, Ltd. in Wheaton before starting her own firm.

Kathryn Gray served 14 years as a member of the City of Wheaton Planning and Zoning Board and served as Chair Pro Tem. She is active in numerous ministries in her church including 20+ years teaching Religious Education, and three years on the Parish Council. Ms. Gray and her husband, Carl - also a Professional Engineer - have three sons; two are engineering graduates and one is entering college in Mechanical Engineering.

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