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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 125-133
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was formerly director, Ford Research Laboratory, Ford Motor Company, prior to his retirement in August 2000. His primary research Note: NAE = member, National Academy of Engineering.
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. His previous positions include chief technology officer, Plug Power, Inc.; technical leader, The Advanced Materials Program, Central Research and New Businesses, The Dow Chemical Company; project leader, Discovery Research R&D and Inorganic Chemicals Research, The Dow Chemical Company; and Robert A
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A member of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin since he completed his Ph.D., Dr. Foster teaches and conducts research in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, internal combustion engines, and emission formation processes.
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He is a recipient of the P.H. Emmett Award and the Robert Burwell Lectureship Award from the North American Catalysis Society, the Herman Pines Award of the Chicago Catalysis Club, the Cross-Canada Lectureship from the Catalysis Division of the Chemical Institute of Canada, and is a Catalysis Society of South Africa eminent visitor. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and editor of Applied Catalysis A: General. He has a Ph.D.
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Prior to joining MIT, he held a number of positions at Ford Motor Company, including director, Vehicle Systems Engineering; director, Advanced Vehicle Engineering; manager, Materials Science Department; senior research scientist, Metallurgy Department; and executive director, Programs and Advanced Engineering, with global responsibility for all major technically deep areas involved in Ford's Product Development Organization. He has expertise in such areas as phase transformations, plastic deformation, materials strength, large-scale collapse of engineering structures, product development, automotive design, value engineering, and simultaneous manufacturing/product engineering.
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His research at the University of Florida has involved both spark-ignition and diesel engines operating with many alternative fuels and advanced concepts. With groups of engineering students, he designed and built a 20-passenger diesel-electric bus for the Florida Department of Transportation and a hybrid-electric urban car using an internal combustion engine and lead-acid batteries.
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He also served as associate administrator for R&D at NHTSA, and while at Martin Marietta Corporation worked on energy conversion devices for space power. He has been a consultant to the Motor Vehicle Fire Research Institute, has been providing peer reviews of automotive safety issues, and has recently published a number of papers on crash-induced fire safety issues with motor vehicles, including hydrogen-fueled vehicles.
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Previous positions include associate professor, Montana State University, Bozeman; visiting research associate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and visiting researcher, CNPq, Brazilian National Council for Development of Science and Technology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. His fields of interest include electrical power conversion, AC power flow control, design of power converters, distributed generation, power converter architecture, and power converter packaging.
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Advanced Battery Consortium's electric vehicle battery R&D project selection process. He holds a B.Tech.
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