The selection committee’s decision was unanimous, even though there was strong praise for this year’s entire slate of nominees. The award announcement came at the ASABE Wisconsin Section meeting in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on March 29.
Steven Lohr, MCG’s director of new product development and engineering, nominated Satori.
He said: “I have had the pleasure of working with Bob for the past six years. He is an extremely high energy individual, with talent, self-motivation, and a passion to drive change. He was a natural for nomination and no one was more deserving of the award.”
Based in the MCG Americas engineering department, in Manitowoc Wisconsin, Satori is responsible for managing a group of 15 engineers in the design and analysis of crawler and mobile cranes.
In addition to his day-to-day responsibilities, Satori has been highly active in the recruitment and mentoring of graduate engineers with the company. He has worked with MCG’s human resources department to recruit a high school intern, and has promoted engineering and science as a career path at a local middle school.
Born and raised in Manitowoc, Satori began his engineering career after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994, where he gained a Bachelor of Science degree in agricultural engineering.
He worked as a production engineer and supervisor before joining MCG as a mechanical engineer in 1999. There, he rose quickly through the ranks, gaining promotion to staff project engineer in 2001 and engineering manager in 2002. He earned a Masters of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004 and is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt.
