RCP’s Jennifer S. Cooper recently received 2nd prize in the 2014 ASME Old Guard Early Career Engineer Award for her work in the development of ASME student and early career programs including the Safety Engineering and Risk Analysis Division’s Student Paper Competition, ASME’s Early Career Web Content, and the ASME ECLIPSE Affinity group.

Jennifer is a project engineer at RCP supporting a variety of regulatory compliance projects, including development of the API/AOPL Excavation Damage Prevention Toolbox, a collaborative industry project to create a shared learning tool on excavation damage prevention for energy pipelines. She had an article published this spring in Damage Prevention Professional highlighting the efforts of the API/AOPL Damage Prevention Team and the Toolbox. Jennifer earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical and industrial engineering from the University of Tennessee-Martin in 2009; a graduate certificate in safety engineering and a master’s degree in engineering management from the Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2011 and 2014, respectively.