Committee: Electronic Vehicle Controls and Unintended Acceleration

Committee Membership Information


Project Title:	Electronic Vehicle Controls and Unintended Acceleration
PIN:	TRB-SASP-10-03
Major Unit:	Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences Transportation Research Board
Sub Unit:	Studies and Special Programs Division DEPS Computer Science & Telecommuncations Board DEPS Board on Energy & Environmental Systems
RSO:	Menzies, Thomas
Subject/Focus Area:	Engineering and Technology; Transportation and Infrastructure

Committee Membership

Date Posted: 10/27/2010

Dr. Louis J. Lanzerotti - (Chair)
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Louis J. Lanzerotti (NAE) is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Dr. Lanzerotti is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is retired Distinguished Member of Technical Staff of Lucent Technologies, where his responsibilities included supervision of laboratories and research and development. His principal research interests include space plasmas, geophysics, and engineering problems related to the impacts of atmospheric and space processes and the space environment on space and terrestrial technologies. He has served as Chair of a number of NRC Boards and Committees, including the Space Studies Board, the Committee for the Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board. He has been principal investigator on NASA and commercial space satellite missions, and is currently PI for instruments on the NASA dual spacecraft Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission scheduled for May 2012 launch. Dr. Lanzerotti holds a BS in engineering physics from the University of Illinois and master's and doctoral degrees in physics from Harvard University.

Dr. Dennis C. Bley
Buttonwood Consulting, Inc.

Dennis C. Bley is President of Buttonwood Consulting, Inc., a Managing Partner in The WreathWood Group, and a member of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He has more than 40 years of experience in nuclear and electrical engineering, plant and human modeling for probabilistic risk assessment, and expert elicitation. He conducts research in human reliability analysis, probabilistic risk assessment of technological systems, and modeling uncertainties. Dr. Bley has a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from MIT and a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Cincinnati. He is recognized for developing and applying probabilistic risk assessment to a wide range of engineered facilities and has lectured at universities, industries, and government on all aspects of risk assessment. He has also authored many papers and reports on risk assessment techniques and methods. He has served on NRC and government committees evaluating such diverse topics as railroad safety, nuclear energy systems, disposal of chemical weapons in the Army’s stockpile, airport operations, the space shuttle, and chemical facilities.

Dr. Raymond M. Brach
University of Notre Dame

Raymond M. Brach, PhD, PE, is a consultant in the field of accident reconstruction and a professor emeritus of the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame. He is a fellow member of the Society of Automotive Engineers. Other professional memberships include the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, The Acoustical Society of America, the Institution of Noise Control Engineers, and the National Association of Professional Accident Reconstruction Specialists. He was granted a PhD in engineering mechanics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. His specialized areas of teaching and research include mechanical design, mechanics, vibrations, acoustics, applications of statistics and quality control, vehicle dynamics, accident reconstruction, and microparticle dynamics. He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Indiana. In addition to more than 100 research papers and numerous invited lectures, he has authored Mechanical Impact Dynamics published by Wiley Interscience in 1991, and is a coauthor of Uncertainty Analysis for Forensic Science, Lawyers and Judges Publishing Company, 2004, and Vehicle Accident Analysis and Reconstruction Methods, published by SAE, 2005.

Dr. Daniel Dvorak
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Daniel Dvorak is a principal engineer in the Systems and Software Division at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Dr. Dvorak leads NASA’s Software Architecture Review Board for real-time embedded flight software; he led the NASA study of flight software complexity; and he also contributed to a NASA study of fault management practices in mission-critical systems and software. Prior to 1996 he worked at Bell Laboratories. Dr. Dvorak’s interests include model-based systems engineering, control architectures for robotic systems, human-rated automation, and verification & validation. Dr. Dvorak holds a Ph.D. in computer science from The University of Texas at Austin, a MS in computer engineering from Stanford University, and a BS in electrical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Dr. Deepak Goel
TechuServe LLC

Deepak Goel is currently the President and founder of the automotive electronic consulting company TechuServe LLC. He provides expertise in diverse areas such as “Best In world EE” designs, supplier development, low cost sourcing, and profitable automotive electronic business growth, automotive part cost reduction, and product cost management. Prior to joining TechuServe, he held senior management and executive positions at Ford Motor Company. After getting his doctorate from Syracuse University, Dr. Deepak has held several senior management, business leadership and technical management positions in Dearborn at Ford Motor and Visteon, Ford Microelectronics in Colorado Springs, Wang Labs in Lowell Massachusetts, and IT&T in Shelton, CT. He was also an adjunct professor at University of Colorado and Bridgeport University. He managed the design and launch of several electronic subsystems for all North American Ford vehicle programs at more than 20 North American assembly plants. In this capacity, while working with suppliers from US, Europe, China and India, he had a unique opportunity to mentor the global supply base on how to meet the OEM cost, quality and launch support needs. He spent more than 14 years in Product Development looking at EE subsystem designs for defect avoidance and prevention.

Dr. Linos J. Jacovides
Delphi Research Laboratories

Linos Jacovides retired as director, Delphi Research Labs, a position he held from 1998 to 2007. Dr. Jacovides joined General Motors Research and Development in 1967 and became department head of electrical engineering in 1985. His areas of research were the interactions between power electronics and electrical machines in electric vehicles and locomotives. He later transitioned to Delphi with a group of researchers from GM to set up the Delphi Research Laboratories. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and was President of the Industry Applications Society of IEEE in 1990. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering, and an M.S degree in machine theory from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1961 and 1962, respectively. He received a Ph.D. in generator control systems from the Imperial College, University of London, in 1965.

Dr. David Gerard
Lawrence University

David Gerard is an Associate Professor of Economics at Lawrence University. He was previously Executive Director of the Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation in the Department of Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. His area of expertise is in the area of risk regulation, focusing on the interrelationships between regulation and technological change. His current research includes the regulation of vehicle safety, transportation fuels, and automobile emissions. He is co-author with Lester Lave of “Experiments in Technology-Forcing: Comparing the Regulatory Processes of U.S. Automobile Safety and Emissions Regulations,” International Journal of Technology Policy and Management (2007). He is also on the development team of TrafficSTATS, an interactive website that calculates travel fatality risks for various vehicle types, demographic characteristics, and other parameters. He earned a B.A. from Grinnell College and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois.

Dr. Daniel N. Jackson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Daniel Jackson is Professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a MacVicar Teaching Fellow. He is the lead designer of the Alloy modelling language, author of "Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis" (MIT Press, 2006), and was recently chair of a National Academies study entitled "Software for Dependable Systems: Sufficient Evidence?" (May 2007). He received his MA from Oxford University in Physics, and SM and PhD from MIT in Computer Science, and has been a software engineer for Logica UK and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He has broad interests in many areas of software engineering, especially in specification and design, critical systems and formal methods.

Dr. Pradeep Lall
Auburn University

Pradeep Lall is the Thomas Walter Professor in the Auburn University Department of Mechanical Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Finance. He is the Director of NSF Center for Advanced Vehicle and Extreme Environment Electronics at Auburn University. His research areas are in electronic reliability, prognostics, material constitutive behavior, nano-composites, failure mechanisms, life prediction models, and explicit dynamics. He is author and co-author of two-books, eleven-chapters, and more than 250 journal and conference papers in the field of electronics packaging with emphasis on design, modeling and predictive techniques. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), recipient of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering Senior Faculty Research Award, and a Six-Sigma Black-Belt in Statistics. He is the recipient of three Motorola Outstanding Innovation Awards, and five Motorola Engineering Awards. Dr. Lall is an Associate Editor for ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging and two Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) journals including Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies and Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing. He earned the B.E. degree from the University of Delhi, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland, and the M.B.A. degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Dr. John D. Lee
University of Wisconsin-Madison

John D. Lee is the Emerson Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Previously he was with the University of Iowa, and was the director of human factors research at the National Advanced Driving Simulator. Before moving to the University of Iowa, he was a research scientist at the Battelle Human Factors Transportation Center for six years. He is a coauthor of the textbook An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering and is the author or coauthor of 170 articles. He recently helped edit the book Driver Distraction: Theory, Effects, and Mitigation. He received the Ely Award for best paper in the journal Human Factors (2002), and the best paper award for the journal Ergonomics (2005). He served as a member of the National Research Council Committee on Human-Systems Integration and has served on several other NRC committees. Dr. Lee serves on the editorial board of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making; Cognition, Technology and Work; International Journal of Human Factors Modeling and Simulation; and is the associate editor for the journals Human Factors and IEEE-Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. His research focuses on the safety and acceptance of complex human-machine systems by considering how technology mediates attention. Specific research interests include trust in technology, advanced driver assistance systems, and driver distraction.

Dr. Adrian K. Lund
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

Adrian Lund is president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and affiliated Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI). Before becoming president in January 2006, Dr. Lund held numerous positions at the Institutes. Trained initially as a psychologist, Dr. Lund has been involved in health-related research since 1975. He joined the Institute in 1981 as a behavioral scientist, becoming senior vice president for research in 1993, chief operating officer of the Institute and HLDI in 2001, and president in 2006. Dr. Lund is a highway safety expert who is consulted frequently by print and electronic media reporters. He appears regularly on television news magazine shows and on network news programs. He also is the author of numerous scientific papers and has served on the boards and committees of many highway safety groups.

Mr. Michael Oliver
MAJR Products Corporation

Michael Oliver is Vice President for Electrical/EMC Engineering at MAJR Products Corp. An expert in electromagnetic interference and radio frequency interference shielding technology, military shelter electrical EMC systems, and high power antenna/radome design, Mr. Oliver offers MAJR clients more than 20 years of experience in electromagnetic compatibility and electromagnetic environmental effects in both military and commercial applications. Mr. Oliver holds three patents on EMC shielding and thermal management devices, and he has performed open and anechoic chamber radiated tests to military standards utilizing various radiated test systems. He is the author of numerous publications and white papers on electromagnetic shielding products and military antenna/radome test methodology standards. A senior member of the IEEE, Mr. Oliver currently serves on the Board of Directors of the IEEE EMC Society; as Chairman of the IEEE EMC Pittsburgh Chapter; and as Co-chairman of the SAE Electromagnetic Compatibility Committee. He is serving as Chairman of the 2012 IEEE EMC Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA, and is a member of the IEEE EMC Standards Advisory Coordination Committee and the dB Society.

Dr. William A. Radasky
Metatech Corporation

William A. Radasky is Founder, President, and Managing Engineer of Metatech Corporation, which provides engineering solutions to problems in the areas of electromagnetic environmental effects, including electromagnetic interference and compatibility, nuclear and lightning electromagnetic pulse, and electrostatic discharge. He began his career in 1968 at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, where he worked with the early high-altitude electromagnetic pulse codes. He founded Metatech Corporation in 1984. At Metatech, he has managed a series of projects to develop electromagnetic hardening measures and test methods to verify their performance. He has also been active in the development of commercial electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) standards with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) to protect commercial systems from all types of electromagnetic threats. He served on the International Standards Organization (ISO) technical committee dealing with automotive EMC (ISO TC22/SC3/WG3), as a liaison between the ISO EMC automotive engineers and the IEC TC 77 committee, which develops basic EMC test standards for electronics equipment. In 2004, he was awarded the Lord Kelvin Medal by the IEC for exceptional service in the development of international standards. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and serves as chairman of TC-5 (High-Power Electromagnetics) for the IEEE EMC Society. He has authored more than 400 publications on EMC subjects. He holds a B.S. degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy, M.S. degree from the University of New Mexico, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Dr. Nadine B. Sarter
University of Michigan

Nadine Sarter is Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and the center for ergonomics at the University of Michigan. She teaches courses in cognitive ergonomics and human factors. She was previously on the faculty in the Department of Industrial, Systems, and Welding Engineering and the Institute for Ergonomics at the Ohio State University. Before then, she served on the faculty of the Institute of Aviation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she held co-appointments with the Departments of Psychology, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and with the Beckman Institute. Her research interests include human-automation communication and coordination (primarily in high-risk event-driven domains such as aviation), multimodal human-machine interfaces/interaction, error prevention and management, and attention and interruption management. Her research is conducted in application domains such as aviation, military operations, medicine, and automobiles. She is Associate Editor for Human Factors, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. She is also a member of the editorial boards for JEP: Applied, JCEDM, Applied Ergonomics, the International Journal of Aviation Psychology, and the Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments. She has served on several NRC committees including the Committee on Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Aviation Safety Inspector Standards, Committee for Evaluating Shipboard Display of Automated Identification Systems, and Committee for a Review of the Federal Railroad Administration R&D Programs. She earned a B.S. degree in psychology and M.S. degree in applied and experimental psychology from the University of Hamburg. IN 1994, she earned a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering from The Ohio State University.

Mr. Jim Sturges
Retired

James Sturges retired in 2009 from Lockheed Martin Corporation, where he had been Director, Engineering Processes, and Director, Mission Assurance. Prior to that he was Vice President, Engineering and Total Quality, at Loral Air Traffic Control/Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management, and C3I Strategic Business Area Director for Loral Tactical Defense Systems, Arizona. He also had been a naval aviator and anti-submarine warfare officer for the U.S. Navy. He has a BFA from the University of North Caroline and an M.S. degree in Aeronautics from the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey. He is an Associate Fellow and member of the Standards Executive Council and past chair of the Systems Engineering Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Dr. Dennis F. Wilkie
Motorola Corporation [Retired]

Dennis F. Wilkie (NAE) is Senior Vice President in the Management Consulting Division of Compass Group, Ltd. Before joining Compass Group, he was Corporate Vice President and Chief of Staff for the Integrated Electronic Systems Sector at Motorola, Inc. He spent most of his career at Ford Motor Company, where he retired as Corporate Vice President for Business Development. His work over the years focused on the application of control theory and systems engineering to automobiles and the field of transportation. He worked on infrastructure issues, such as automated highways, automated transportation systems, and ITS. In recent years, he has focused on the utilization of electronics and wireless technology to bring new levels of convenience, safety, and information to the vehicle. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000 and is a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Wayne State University, a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, and a master of science in management (Sloan Fellow) from MIT.

Committee Membership Roster Comments

Note (06-29-2010): There has been a change in committee membership. Nicole Nason was provisionally appointed but will not be serving on the committee.
Note (08-06-2010): There has been a change in committee membership with the appointments of the following: Katharine Frase, David Gerard, Pradeep Lall, William Radasky and Nadine Sarter.
Note (10-27-2010): There has been a change in committee membership with the resignation of Katharine Frase.

Statement of Committee Composition

Disclosure of Conflict of Interest: Deepak Goel

In accordance with Section 15 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the "Academy shall make its best efforts to ensure that no individual appointed to serve on [a] committee has a conflict of interest that is relevant to the functions to be performed, unless such conflict is promptly and publicly disclosed and the Academy determines that the conflict is unavoidable." A conflict of interest refers to an interest, ordinarily financial, of an individual that could be directly affected by the work of the committee.
As specified in the Academy's policy and procedures (http://www.nationalacademies.org/coi/index.html), an objective determination is made for each provisionally appointed committee member whether or not a conflict of interest exists given the facts of the individual's financial and other interests and the task being undertaken by the committee. A determination of a conflict of interest for an individual is not an assessment of that individual's actual behavior or character or ability to act objectively despite the conflicting interest.

We have concluded that for this committee to accomplish the tasks for which it was established its membership must include among others, individuals with extensive expertise in automotive electronics and practical experience with industry processes and procedures for procuring electronic devices for automobiles from suppliers, integrating software from individual components into the electronic system of automobiles, testing for component failures and anomalies reported by dealers, and analyzing warranty repairs.

To meet the need for this expertise and experience, Dr. Deepak Goel is proposed for appointment to the committee even though we have concluded that he has a conflict of interest because he receives a pension from a major automobile manufacturer and owns stock and options to purchase stock in the manufacturer with a value in excess of $10,000.

As his biographical summary makes clear, Dr. Goel has extensive experience in technical management positions in the automobile industry that involved designing and launching automotive electronic subsystems, including working with suppliers from around the world, and examining electrical engineering subsystem designs for defect avoidance and prevention. We believe that Dr. Goel can serve effectively as a member of the committee and that the committee can produce an objective report, taking into account the composition of the committee, the work to be performed, and the procedures to be followed in completing the work.

After an extensive search, we have been unable to find another individual with the equivalent combination of current practical experience and expertise as Dr. Goel who does not have a similar conflict of interest. Therefore, we have concluded that this potential conflict is unavoidable.

Disclosure of Conflict of Interest: Dennis Wilkie

In accordance with Section 15 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the "Academy shall make its best efforts to ensure that no individual appointed to serve on [a] committee has a conflict of interest that is relevant to the functions to be performed, unless such conflict is promptly and publicly disclosed and the Academy determines that the conflict is unavoidable." A conflict of interest refers to an interest, ordinarily financial, of an individual that could be directly affected by the work of the committee. As specified in the Academy's policy and procedures (http://www.nationalacademies.org/coi/index.html), an objective determination is made for each provisionally appointed committee member whether or not a conflict of interest exists given the facts of the individual's financial and other interests and the task being undertaken by the committee. A determination of a conflict of interest for an individual is not an assessment of that individual's actual behavior or character or ability to act objectively despite the conflicting interest.

We have concluded that for this committee to accomplish the tasks for which it was established its membership must include among others, individuals with expertise in automotive electronics and extensive management experience in overseeing processes and controls to ensure the quality of individual automobile components and software, the integration of these components in automotive design, and the analysis of vehicle performance in the field to detect potential failures in electronic control systems.

To meet the need for this expertise and experience, Dr. Dennis Wilke is proposed for appointment to the committee even though we have concluded that he has a conflict of interest because he receives a pension from a major automobile manufacturer and owns stock in the manufacturer with a value in excess of $10,000.

As his biographical summary makes clear, in addition to his PhD in electrical engineering, Dr. Wilkie has extensive experience in senior management positions in both automotive and electronic supplier companies. We believe that Dr. Wilkie can serve effectively as a member of the committee and that the committee can produce an objective report, taking into account the composition of the committee, the work to be performed, and the procedures to be followed in completing the work.

After an extensive search, we have been unable to find another individual with the equivalent combination of current practical experience and expertise as Dr. Wilke who does not have a similar conflict of interest. Therefore, we have concluded that this potential conflict is unavoidable.