Skip to main content

Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles (2010) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:

Appendix C: Committee Biographical Sketches
Pages 205-210

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 205...
... He was elected to the National worked on manufacturing processes and systems with an Academy of Engineering in 2008 for scientific contribuemphasis on energy systems, productivity improvement, and tions to improving fuel economy and reducing emissions of environmental efficiency. Before joining GM he supervised internal combustion engines and for promoting automotive process development at Allied-Signal Corporation, now engineering education.
Read the entire page →
From page 206...
... He also held assistant and associate professor positions there. served in all positions, including chair of the TMC and the Previous positions include factory survey engineer with the South Carolina Maintenance Council, chair of the Future Water Research Commission, Durban, South Africa, and Truck Committee and VMRS Committee, and vice chair contract researcher for the Council for Mineral Technology, of the S-6 and S-12 study groups of TMC, and he currently Durban, South Africa.
Read the entire page →
From page 207...
... He is ics department from 1986 to 1993. He has served on many an invited member of the FreedomCAR Advanced Combus- committees related to engine technology, engine emissions, tion and Emission Control Tech Team and also a member of and health effects -- for example, committees of the Society the Coordinating Research Council Working Group on Ad- of Automotive Engineers, the National Research Council vanced Vehicle Fuels and Lubricants.
Read the entire page →
From page 208...
... Generation of Vehicles program and more recently as a After working for PSA Peugeot Citroen for several years in member of the Committee on Review of the 21st Century the hybrid electric vehicle research department, he joined Truck Partnership. He is a consultant to the DDC, which Argonne National Laboratory where he is now responsible included compliance auditor for the consent decree signed for development of the Powertrain System Analysis Toolkit with EPA/California Air Resources Board/Department of (PSAT)
Read the entire page →
From page 209...
... He serves on the National Commission solving problems related to energy security, environmental on Energy Policy and also served as a member of the Panel quality, and transportation. He has published extensively in of Economic Advisers of the Congressional Budget Office scholarly journals, coauthored a textbook on environmental and as a Senior Staff Economist on the President's Council of modeling, and was editor and lead contributor for a book on Economic Advisors.
Read the entire page →

Key Terms

  • century truck
  • truck partnership
  • fuel economy
  • internal combustion
  • combustion engines

  • vehicle research
  • diesel engine
  • fuel consumption
  • carolina maintenance
  • maintenance council

  • project engineer
  • south africa
  • power train
  • business administration
  • diesel crosscut

  • alternative fuels
  • heavy vehicle
  • engine nvh
  • published extensively
  • conducts research

  • diesel engines
  • mtu mechanical
  • energy policy
  • manufacturers association
  • mechanical engineers

  • development engineer
  • michigan transportation
  • truck company
  • science degree
  • professional engineer


    • This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
    More information on Chapter Skim is available.