Dr. David E. Crow - (Chair)
University of Connecticut
DAVID E. CROW, NAE, is retired Senior Vice President of Engineering at Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Engine Company. He is also currently Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut. At Pratt and Whitney he was influential in the design, development, test, and manufacturing in support of a full line of engines for aerospace and industrial applications. He was involved with products that include high-thrust turbofans for large commercial and military aircraft; turboprops and small turbofans for regional and corporate aircraft and helicopters; booster engines and upper stage propulsion systems for advanced launch vehicles; turbopumps for the Space Shuttle; and industrial engines for land-based power generation. His involvement included sophisticated computer modeling and standard work to bring constant improvements in the performance and reliability of the company's products, while at the same time reducing noise and emissions.
Dr. Ralph C. Aldredge, III
University of California, Davis
RALPH C. ALDREDGE III is Professor in the Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Materials Engineering Department a the University of California, Davis, where he is involved with the Applied Mathematics Graduate Group, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group, Center for Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Institute for Transportation Studies. Dr. Aldredge’s research interests include analytical, computational and experimental studies of turbulent flame propagation and combustion instabilities; development of computational models and algorithms for simulation of reactive-flow dynamics; and biological-fluid dynamics, biomedical heat transfer, tissue mechanics. He instructs courses in advanced turbulence modeling, biomedical heat and mass transport, combustion, and engineering thermodynamics. Dr. Aldredge received his BS from Carnegie Mellon University and his MS and PhD from Pronceton University.
Dr. Meyer J. Benzakein
The Ohio State University
MEYER J. BENZAKEIN, NAE, is Chair of the Aerospace Engineering Department at the Ohio State University. His recent work has focused on development of analytical tools for improved quality and thruput for turbine engines (he was instrumental in reducing the engine development cycle time by a factor greater than two); rresearch in the reduction of aircraft engine noise and emissions; effective management of technology programs for company and government funded initiatives, assuring effective use of resources and timely completion; and management and integration between companies of commercial and military aircraft engines for on time delivery, meeting all technical requirements.
Dr. James L. Bettner
Rolls-Royce, North America [Retired]
JAMES L. BETTNER retired from Rolls-Royce Aero Engines in 2002, where he was the Program Manager for the AE 3007H engine, which is the propulsion system for the Air Force’s high-altitude, long-endurance Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle. Previously, he was the supervisor of the Preliminary Design Department, where he conducted studies on material properties in advanced engines, convertible engines, gearboxes for high-speed rotorcraft, wave rotors, and fuel-cooled engines. Dr. Bettner also directed ERAST studies of optimum propulsion systems for very-high-altitude research aircraft. He directed the preliminary design of a propulsion system for a large fan-in-wing Special Operations Force aircraft, where the engines powered a conventional fan in forward flight but were clutched to the fan-in-wing for vertical takeoff and landing. He directed the preliminary design analysis of developing a 2000-pound-thrust turbofan from the T800 turboshaft engine for a medium-altitude application. Prior to that, Dr. Bettner was a member of the propfan development team, which included the NASA-funded single-rotation propfan test assessment (PTA) and the company-funded counter-rotation PW-Allison 578 projects. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University. Dr. Bettner has expertise in engine materials, propfans, and other elements of propulsion.
Dr. Paul Bevilaqua
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
PAUL BEVILAQUA, NAE, Manager of Advanced Development Programs at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company. His research interests have been largely stimulated by the challenges of developing powered lift systems intended to shorten the take off and landing distances of fixed wing aircraft, down to the limit of vertical take off and landing. Consequently, his research has included study of the thermodynamics of energy conversion for propulsion systems, including turbojet engines, ramjets, and thrust augmenting ejectors. He has also investigated the development of turbulent jets and wakes, in order to understand the fundamental mechanisms of turbulent mixing and entrainment and the jet induced forces on aerodynamic surfaces. This has lead to interests in computer aided engineering and technical management, especially in applying the principles of lean manufacturing to engineering and design processes. He has also contributed to the technologies associated with the design and development of stealth aircraft.
Dr. Earl H. Dowell
Duke University
EARL H. DOWELL,NAE, is William Holland Hall Professor and Dean Emeritus in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering at Duke University. The fundamental areas of Professor Dowell's research interests are dynamics, fluid and solid mechanics and acoustics. A particular focus at present is on the dynamics of nonlinear fluid and structural systems and their associated limit cycle and chaotic motions. Examples include flexible plates and shells excited by dynamic fluid forces, oscillating airfoils and wings in a transonic flow, and aero-mechanical instability of rotorcraft systems. Also of interest are studies of systems with many degrees-of-freedom. Three aspects of such systems are being considered: eigenfunctions of nonconservative (fluid or fluid-structure) systems, turbulence as a multi-mode chaotic phenomena, and the asymptotic behavior of a dynamical system as the number of degrees-of-freedom becomes very large (asymptotic model analysis). The potential applications for the results of these research efforts are very broad, but a principal emphasis is on aerospace, automotive, naval and other transportation.
Dr. Ephrahim Garcia
Cornell University
EPHRAHIM GARCIA is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Cornell University. His area of expertise is dynamics and controls, especially sensors and actuators involving smart materials. Dr. Garcia served as a Program Manager in the Defense Sciences Office at the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1998 to 2002. His programs involved the development of new types of actuation systems utilizing smart material transducers, system level demonstrations of smart structures applied to defense platforms, morphing aircraft systems and the development of exoskeletons for human performance augmentation. Dr. Garcia has pursued interdisciplinary research in the development of novel electro-mechanical systems, including smart material based actuators for optical systems controls and piezoelectric motor development. From 1991 to 1998, Dr. Garcia was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University where he was Director of the Center for Intelligent Mechatronics and the Smart Structures Laboratory. In this capacity he directed research in the areas of smart structures, control-structure interaction, and bio-inspired robotics. From 1991-97, he owned and operated Garman Systems, Inc., (now Dynamic Structures and Materials, LLC) a small engineering corporation that designed and fabricated devices in the areas of adaptive structural systems, utilizing piezoelectric, electrostrictive and shape memory alloy materials. In 1995, Dr. Garcia was named an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator, appointed a 1993 Presidential Faculty Fellow by President Clinton, and twice received Summer Faculty Fellowship awards from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (’90,’91). In 1995, he was named “Most Promising Scientist,” by Hispanic Engineer magazine (now Technica) and received this award at the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC). Dr. Garcia is author of more than 140 articles, book chapters and edited volumes. He serves on the ASME Aerospace Division’s Executive Committee and as on the Editorial Advisory Board to Smart Materials and Structures. In 2002, Professor Garcia received the prestigious American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Adaptive Structures Prize for “significant contributions to the sciences and technologies associated with adaptive structures and/or materials systems.
Dr. Prabhat Hajela
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
PRABHAT HAJELA is Professor of Aerospace Engineering, and the Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Before joining Rensselaer, he worked as a research fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles for a year, and was on the faculty at the University of Florida for seven years. He has conducted research at NASA’s Langley and Glenn Research Centers, and the Eglin Air Force Armament Laboratory. In 2003, Hajela served as a Congressional Fellow responsible for Science and Technology Policy in the Office of US Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT). He worked on several legislative issues related to aerospace and telecommunications policy, including the anti-SPAM legislation that was signed into law in December 2003. Hajela is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), a Fellow of the Aeronautical Society of India (AeSI), a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the Vice-President of the International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO). Hajela has held many editorial assignments including editor of Evolutionary Optimization, Associate Editor of the AIAA journal, and is on the editorial board of six other international journals. He has published over 255 papers and articles in the areas of structural and multidisciplinary optimization, and is an author or co-author of 4 books in these areas. In 2004, he was the recipient of AIAA’s Biennial Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Award.
Mr. James Hamilton
Target Chip Ganassi Racing
JAMES HAMILTON is Chief Vehicle Dynamics Engineer with Target Chip Ganassi Racing team . He heads vehicle dynamic research, development and simulation in the Advanced Engineering Group and has pioneered analytical methods, dynamic testing systems, aerodynamic test and data analysis methods, dynamic computer simulations, driver style modeling, hydraulic systems, active ride control and other closed loop control strategies, math and software. He has also contributed development perspective directly to leading DARPA Grand Challenge competitor, Carnegie Mellon University’s Red Team, which ultimately won the Urban Challenge. Before coming to Ganassi, Mr. Hamilton held esteemed positions with other racing teams including: Patrick Racing Team’s Chief Race Engineer (1998-1999) for Scott Pruett; PacWest Racing(1997); Dan Gurney's All American Racer’s Chief Race Engineer (1989-1996), and Director of Vehicle Dynamics—engineering Juan Fangio II. Before his career in racing, Mr. Hamilton was Manager (1977-1989) of BMW North America’s Product Strategy and Product Engineering, Product Testing and Product Liability Defense. With Volkswagen (1971-1977) he coordinated original research in restraint systems and vehicle traffic safety strategies. With Litton System’s Advanced Marine Technology Laboratories he wrote hull design software for the DD963 destroyer based on methods developed at the David Taylor Model Basin. With Space Technology Laboratories/TRW Systems (1965-1968), he wrote software for manned and unmanned space missions including Gemini, Apollo, Pioneer, Mariner, and several classified surveillance satellite programs. Mr. Hamilton has also served on the Society of Automotive Engineers Vehicle Dynamics Technical Committee, chaired three vehicle dynamic sessions at the SAE Motorsports Engineering Conference and has presented to both the U.S. DOT and the SAE on topics of vehicle safety. Mr. Hamilton is also an inventor and holds three U.S. patents: all in vehicle dynamic technology. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the Carnegie Mellon University.
Mr. S. Michael Hudson
Rolls-Royce, North America
S. MICHAEL HUDSON retired in 2002 from the position of vice chairman of Rolls-Royce North America. After Allison Engine Company was acquired by Rolls-Royce, Mr. Hudson served as president, chief executive officer, chief operating officer, and as a member of the board of directors of Allison Engine Company. Previously, during his tenure at Allison, he served as executive vice president for engineering, chief engineer for advanced technology engines, chief engineer for small production engines, supervisor of the design for Model 250 engines, and chief of preliminary design and chief project engineer in vehicular gas turbines.
Dr. William J. McCroskey
U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command [Retired]
WILLIAM J. MCCROSKEY, NAE, is Retired Senior Research Scientist at the U.S. Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate. His primary research interests are in fluid dynamics, particularly the unsteady aerodynamics of fixed-wing aircraft and rotorcraft. He is actively involved with junior colleagues in adapting and applying advanced computational aerodynamics and aeroacoustics techniques and supercomputer technology to airfoil stall, acoustic-wave generation and propagation, tip-vortex formation and vortical wake rollup, helicopter blade airloads, and rotor-body flow interactions. These applications include CFD code refinement and grid generation, and advanced graphical displays of numerical results. The efforts of his team have focused on working closely with and transferring rotorcraft CFD technology to the US helicopter industry. He has also mentored promising young Army and NASA research scientists in computational fluid dynamics, acquainting them with relevant experimental investigations and the needs of industry, and assisting them in validating their codes and in publishing and disseminating their results. He is also interested in promoting collaborative aerodynamics research and technology with scientists and engineers abroad.
Dr. Robin R. Murphy
University of South Florida
ROBIN R. MURPHY is currently the Raytheon Professor of Computer Science at Texas A & M University. From 1998 to 2008, she was a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of South Florida with a joint appointment in Cognitive and Neural Sciences in the Department of Psychology. Dr. Murphy is Director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue at Georgia Tech. Previously she helped start the industry/university cooperative research center on Safety Security Rescue (SSR-RC) with the University of Minnesota and served as its overall director through 2006. Dr. Murphy has concentrated her basic research on sensor fusion, fault tolerant perception, and most recently human-robot interaction for unmanned systems. She has over 100 publications in the field, including the textbook Introduction to AI Robotics (MIT Press). She has focused on emergency response as the test domain for her research, leading to her participation in the first known use of robots for urban search and rescue (US&R) at the WTC disaster. Dr. Murphy is active in the robotics, industrial, and military communities. She is an associate editor for IEEE Intelligent Systems, was an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor Program speaker, and was the first woman to serve on the Executive Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. She was a member of the 1998-9 Defense Science Study Group, is currently a member of the DARPA Information Science and Technology study group co-chairing a study on using technology to identify innovation in the field, and is serving on the National Research Council study on Using Information Technology to Enhance Disaster Management. Dr. Murphy received a B.M.E. in mechanical engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Dr. Lynne E. Parker
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
LYNNE E. PARKER is Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK) and an adjunct distinguished research and development staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). She is the founder and director of the Distributed Intelligence Laboratory at UTK. She is also the assistant director of the UTK-ORNL Science Alliance. She is a leading international researcher in the field of cooperative multi-robot systems, and has performed research in the areas of mobile robot cooperation, human-robot cooperation, robotic learning, intelligent agent architectures, and robot navigation. For this research, she was awarded the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2000. Her extensive publications include five edited books on the topic of distributed robotics. She is a Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and is on the editorial boards of IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine and the Swarm Intelligence journal. Dr. Parker received her Ph.D. in computer science from MIT.
Dr. Neil E. Paton
Liquidmetal Technologies
NEIL E. PATON, NAE, is Chief Technology Officer at Liquidmetal Technologies Corporation. Dr. Paton is noted for contributions to the development of advanced aluminum and high-temperature alloys for aerospace applications. He received his PhD in Metallurgy And Materials Science from MIT and his BE in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New Zealand and ME in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Auckland.
Mr. Martin Peryea
Bell Helicopter TEXTRON Inc.
MARTIN PERYEA is Chief Engineer for Government Programs at Bell Helicopter TEXTRON Company. He leads and manages the Chief Engineers at Bell for all government programs for ensuring the technical integrity of products and services, and he ensures that aircraft meets all performance, flight safety, and airworthiness requirements. Mr. Peryea represents Bell as the primary interface with their customers' chief engineers and senior technical leaders, serves as the integrator between Programs and Engineering, and oversee the staffing process for all government programs thereby ensuring consistent application of all functional competencies and best practices. He also ensures integration of all technical requirements, development, definition, configuration management, and performance of government products. He oversees all system, performance, critical, and Flight Readiness Reviews for all government Programs and ensures that systems engineering discipline is consistently applied for all government products and IPTs. He received a Masters of Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and a Bachelor of Science, Applied and Engineering Physics, both at Cornell University.
Dr. Kenneth L. Reifsnider
University of South Carolina
KENNETH REIFSNIDER, NAE, is Director of the Solid Oxide Fuel Program and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina. Previously, he was Pratt and Whitney Chair Professor in Design and Reliability in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut and Director, Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center. His research areas include applied mechanics, prediction of the lifetime of materials and structures, advanced materials, and fuel cells. Dr. Reifsnider joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Connecticut in 2002 from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he was the Alexander Giacco Chair Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, and where he began the Virginia Tech Center for Composite Materials and Structures and served as director of the Virginia Institute for Material Systems. He also served as deputy director of the NSF Center for High Performance Polymeric Adhesives and Composites. In addition, he served as chairman of the Materials Engineering Science Ph.D. Program and as Associate Provost for Interdisciplinary Programs at Virginia Tech. Dr. Reifsnider has received many prestigious awards throughout his career, serves on the editorial boards of five journals, is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Fatigue, and is co-founding editor of the Journal of Composites Technology and Research. He also recently completed his signature text entitled Damage Tolerance and Durability of Material Systems. Dr. Reifsnider earned his Ph.D. in metallurgy and solid mechanics from the Johns Hopkins University. Professor Reifsnider is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Dr. William A. Sirignano
University of California, Irvine
WILLIAM SIRIGNANO, NAE, is Henry Samueli Endowed Chair in Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. His research and teaching interests have covered the topics of spray and droplet science and technology, combustion, aerospace propulsion, combustion instability, noise suppression and applied mathematics. His research accomplishments include analysis predicting periodic nonlinear oscillations with shockwaves in an unstable combustor; analysis of driving mechanisms for combustion instability in rockets and ramjets; explanation of the nonlinear fluid dynamics associated with Helmholtz resonators; determination of admittance for oscillatory, three-dimensional nozzle flows; theory for flame spread above liquid and solid fuels; theory for ignition of combustible gas by a hot projectile; resolution of turbulent flame and propagation in reciprocating and rotary internal combustion engines; theory of droplet vaporization and convective heating with internal circulation; computational methods for spray flows; theory of droplet interactions in a dense spray; liquid atomization theory; and miniature combustor technology.
Dr. Christine S. Sloane
Sloane Solutions LLC
CHRISTINE S. SLOANE leads General Motors Corporation's global team for hydrogen and fuel cell vehicle codes and standards development. She coordinates development of GM policy and technical strategy across safety, engineering and public policy requirements and ensures global consistency in GM interaction with government and professional industry organizations. She previously directed the GM interaction with the U.S. FreedomCAR program, which included R&D to advance fuel cell power systems, and earlier served as chief technologist for the development and demonstration team for Precept, GM’s 80 mile-per-gallon 5-passenger HEV concept vehicle. She has also been responsible for global climate issues and for mobile emission issues involving advanced technology vehicles. Her early research interests included air quality, and manufacturing and vehicle emissions. Dr. Sloane has authored over 80 technical papers and coedited one book. She has served on several boards of professional organizations and numerous National Academy of Science panels and study groups. Dr. Sloane received her Ph.D. from MIT in chemical physics.
Dr. Michael S. Torok
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
MICHAEL S. TOROK is the Director of System Engineering & Technology at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. Dr. Torok is responsible for System Engineering, Configuration Management, Civil Certification, Airworthiness and Safety, Aircraft Attributes and Technology Development. His activities have included development and application of advanced technology tools, research and applied model test programs, project management of advanced technology programs with DOD, NASA and DARPA, development and insertion of technology into, and technical definition and support of all company product lines. Dr. Torok received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1985, a Master of Science and Ph. D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland. He currently serves as the American Helicopter Society (AHS) Technical Director and member of the AHS Board. He also serves on the University of Maryland Aerospace Engineering Advisory Board. He is past chair of the Rotorcraft Industry Technology Association (RITA) Technical Advisory Council. His awards have included the U.S. Army Distinguished Rotorcraft Fellowship, the Vertical Flight Foundation Fellowship, the AHS Bagnoud Award, the AHS Gruppo Agusta Award and he was the initial rotorcraft inductee into the University of Maryland, Aerospace Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni.
Dr. John Valasek
Texas A&M University-College Station
JOHN VALASEK is Director, Flight Simulation Laboratory, and Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University. He has been actively conducting flight controls research and configuration design of manned and unmanned air vehicles in both industry and academia for 20 years. His research interests include autonomous intelligent control of unmanned air and ground vehicles, autonomous air refueling, vision-based navigation systems, intelligent cockpit computing and displays, and morphing air vehicles. In industry, he was a flight control engineer for Northrop Corporation’s Aircraft Division, where he worked on integrated flight and propulsion control systems in the Flight Controls Research Group and on the AGM-137 tri-services standoff attack missile (TSSAM) in the Flight Controls Analysis Group, where he received the Northrop Corporation Outstanding Contribution to Program Award. He has been an AFOSR summer faculty research fellow for the Flight Dynamics Directorate at Wright Laboratories and a NASA summer faculty researcher in the Guidance and Control Branch at NASA Langley. In addition to university research, he is a consultant on flight control to several companies. He is an associate fellow of the AIAA and a senior member of the IEEE, as well as a chair or member of numerous AIAA and IEEE technical committees. He is a reviewer for the NRC and the AFOSR and a former associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Education. He earned a B.S. at California State Polytechnic University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Kansas, all in aerospace engineering.
Dr. Ronald E. York
Rolls-Royce, North America [Retired]
RONALD E. YORK is a strategic planning consultant for high technology organizations in the mobility industry and also supports the US Army Research Labs through the National Research Council Panel on Air & Ground Vehicle Technology. Recent clients have included Rolls-Royce Defence North America (RR/DNA) and the USAF Scientific Advisory Board on the Thermal Management study. From 2005-2008 he served as the Vice President for Aerospace, SAE International and was a member of the SAE board of directors. From 2006 through 2007 he was Vice-President, Special Projects for RR/DNA, where he led strategic planning and a number of business development initiatives. Previously, Dr. York was the Chief Operating Officer of Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (a.k.a. LibertyWorks?). LibertyWorks’ primary mission is the development and validation of advanced gas turbine technology and engine concepts to meet future Rolls-Royce customer needs. LibertyWorks programs address both unmanned and man-rated applications, for which LibertyWorks? generated world-record levels of technology capability. Significant recent achievements of LibertyWorks include major contributions to the JSF LiftFan and F136 engine, a new product line of exhaust infrared suppressors and high temperature turbines for future high Mach applications. From 1993 to 2001, Dr. York was General Motors’ director of the Partnership of a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV). This partnership was a unique initiative undertaken jointly by the US Government and the United States Council for Automotive Research (USCAR). The key objective of PNGV was to develop the technological foundation for a new generation of automobiles and trucks that would be significantly more fuel-efficient than today’s vehicles, while continuing to meet all other requirements of the marketplace. Dr. York was responsible for the integration of technical, business, political and public relations strategy for General Motors. Jointly with his counterparts at Ford and Chrysler and in the U.S. Government, he performed the same functions for the Partnership, coordinating the plans of the Big Three, eleven government agencies and over 400 supporting national laboratories, suppliers and academic participants. He also led the multi-disciplinary General Motors team that designed and demonstrated the GM Precept, an advanced technology demonstration vehicle that achieved the 80 mpg target established by PNGV. This vehicle integrated over 150 innovations that enabled it to be the most fuel-efficient family sedan ever developed. The Precept received the Popular Science Grand Award for Automotive Technology in 2000 and numerous other commendations. Dr. York was employed in a variety of R&D positions at Allison Gas Turbine (now Rolls-Royce) from 1961 to 1993. His work there focused on the development of advanced technologies needed for high performance turbine engines. He has functioned both as an individual researcher and as an engineering manager in several areas, including: advanced experimental and computational fluid mechanics, high temperature heat transfer, combustion systems and advanced electronic controls for both aeronautical and passenger car applications. In his last previous position at Allison, Dr. York was Director of Advanced Engines where he was responsible for integrating Allison's advanced component, materials, and structural technology into advanced demonstrator and product prototype engines to evaluate the feasibility and benefits at the system level. In 1989-90 Dr. York was an SAE White House Fellow in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Dr. York served as a Sr. Policy Analyst at OSTP working on issues associated with the competitiveness of U.S. industry. Areas of responsibilities included the first National Critical Technologies Report, aeronautics policy, science and technology information policy, and technology transfer from the federal laboratories to the private sector. He has previously served as the VP of Public Policy for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), was on several university advisory boards and has supported STEM initiatives in Indiana including Science Bound and the Science Education Foundation of Indiana. Education: B.E.E., General Motors Institute, 1966; M.S.E., Purdue University, 1969; Ph.D., Purdue University, 1973; Honors: GMI: Robot Society, Tau Beta Pi and Sobey Award; General Motors Fellow, 1969 – 1970; Society of Sigma Xi, 1974; SAE White House Fellow in the Office of Science & Technology Policy, 1989 – 1990; General Motors Chairman’s Honors, 2000; Professional Affiliations: SAE Fellow, AIAA Assoc. Fellow, ASME member; Registered Professional Engineer: Indiana.
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