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Long Pham
Biographical
Information
A leader of the
engineering community and former Vice President of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Dr. Long Pham was elected
Trustee of the Orange County Board of Education for the four year
term 2008-2012.
The Fountain Valley
resident is married, and has 4 children from 24 to 34.
Birth
Place: Hai Phong, Vietnam.
Age: 59
Long Pham serves as
a nuclear engineer at Southern California Edison since 1992, and
runs his family engineering consulting business in Newport Beach
since 1989.
At the former Space
System Division of Rockwell International in Downey, Long was a
Senior Project Manager and Member of the Technical Staff where his
last accomplishment was conducting the final certification of
America’s newest space shuttle, the Endeavour. Prior to this, he
worked for Ralph M. Parsons Company and Bechtel Corporation as a
Senior Engineer serving the Architects Engineers Industry both in
America and overseas.
As a young
immigrant who spoke no English when he arrived to America in 1975,
Long took his first job as a domestic worker and babysitter for the
first few months to learn English. He was then hired as a
teacher’s aide by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, and
later as a Lab Assistant at the Pennsylvania State University’s
engineering laboratory.
In addition to his
marine engineering background from Vietnam, Long Pham holds a BS,
MS, and Ph.D. in Engineering and Engineering Management. He owes
America a big favor for transforming a young Vietnamese sailor into
a successful engineer and a leader of ASME, the largest engineering
society in America. Dr. Pham believes the same opportunity or
better shall be available to each and every one of our children, and
will work hard to make it happen.
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