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Gerald Micklow Gerald Micklow, Ph.D. PE is currently a full professor of Engineering at East Carolina University and is a licensed engineer in the state of North Carolina. Since the 1980s, Dr. Micklow has been actively involved in the design and evaluation of advanced power producing systems. Dr. Micklow’s research over the years has been heavily funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Federal Aviation Administration, Argonne National Labs and others with the majority of the work being related to fuel injection and low pollutant emission combustion systems for aircraft and on-road and off-road automotive/trucking/machinery applications. Dr. Micklow has received numerous awards from NASA including being inducted into the NASA/U.S. Space Foundation Innovative Technology Hall of Fame in 2000 and receiving the NASA Space Act Award for work performed on the Space Shuttle in 2002. In addition, Dr. Micklow’s industry experience includes eight years of designing advanced aircraft and missile configurations where he maintained top-secret security clearances. With well over 60 engineering publications, Dr. Micklow received both a B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Greg Moss Since 1983, Greg has been acquiring experience in corporate training and development, mostly within the automotive industry. With a background that includes technical and management skill areas, he has continuously sought to bring the most relevant and up-to-date resources to meet the rapidly changing needs of the technical community. Greg is active with the Michigan Academy for Greater Mobility Advancement (MAGMA) and served as co-chair of the board. He has been active in identifying the skill requirements and educational needs of the engineering community for many years. Most recently, Greg was employed at DENSO’s North American technical center and marketing offices, which included running the program for training new managers. He is a Certified Performance Technologist and holds a B.A. in Education in mathematics from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from Midwestern State University, Texas. Jody Muelaner Dr. Muelaner is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Bath. His over twenty-year engineering career began in machine design, working on everything from medical devices to saw mills. Since 2007, he has been developing novel metrology at the University of Bath. He gained his City and Guilds qualification in CAD in 1997, a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Exeter in 2004, became a Chartered Engineer in 2009, and was awarded a PhD in Metrology Assisted Assembly by the University of Bath in 2011. He has worked extensively with clients in the aerospace industry including acting as the Lead for Metrology on the Airbus Advanced Low-Cost Aircraft Structures (ALCAS) project. He has published widely in peer reviewed
Mansour Masoudi Dr. Mansour Masoudi is the founder of Emissol LLC, an emission control (aftertreatment) company specializing in various automotive powertrain technologies, Research and Development (R&D) with a core specialty in emission reduction and after- treatment technologies. Throughout his career, he has carried out various responsibilities working on gasoline and Diesel emission control components and systems, including substrate and catalyst technologies, spray injection (fuel, DEF), aftertreatment system design and optimization, testing and validation. He formerly held technology, product and R&D responsibilities at Corning Inc. (Senior Product Engineer), Delphi Corp. (Staff Project Engineer), Bosch Diesel Systems (Senior Engineer), Bosch Emission Systems (Manager, Aftertreatment Systems) and at Paccar (Manager, Advanced Powertrain Technology). He has a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace engineering, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and MS. in management. Dr. Masoudi is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Emission Control Science and Technology”. Ronald Matthews Professor Ron Matthews, currently serving as a member of the SAE International Board of Directors, is Head of the General Motors Foundation Engines Research Laboratory on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. He has been actively involved in engines research since 1983, including engine control systems since the initial introduction of on-board computers. Dr. Matthews, a Fellow of SAE International, founded the Formula SAE compe- tition in 1981 and has been the Faculty Advisor for a Formula SAE team each year since. He has been author or co-author on over 200 technical papers and reports, mostly in the field of engines. Dr. William M. McVea Dr. William Mark McVea, P.E., is currently President and Principal Engineer of KBE+, Inc. where he and his team design and develop complete powertrains for automotive and off-highway vehicles. Dr. McVea has held many positions within the mechanical drive and powertrain industry; most recently as Chief Technology Officer for Torvec, Inc., an industry leader in the design and development of patented powertrain engineering technology used primarily in the automotive industry. His prior positions include Professor of Vehicle Dynamics and Powertrain Sciences in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology and adjunct professor at Purdue University in their Automotive Sciences Department. He was also formerly a manager of the CAE group within a tier-one powertrain supplier to global automotive markets, a consulting engineer in vehicle dynamics with Gear Consultants, Inc., and a project manager of traction systems for off-highway vehicles with Clark-Hurth International. Dr. McVea has published extensively on the topics of transmission systems, automated design assistant systems, knowledge systems and knowledge based engineering in general. He also holds or is listed as co-in- ventor on numerous patents related to mechanical power transmis- sions. Dr. McVea holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology, a Ph.D. in Design Engineering from Purdue University and is a licensed Professional Engineer.
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