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Appendix B Committee Biographies
Pages 21-25

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... Mr. Jones has served on several other National Research Council committees, including the Committee for a Strategic Transportation Research Study on Highway Safety; chaired the NAE Steering Committee on the Impact of Products Liability Law on Innovation; and for 7 years chaired the Committee on Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles for six reviews.
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From page 22...
... He has served on a number of National Research Council boards and committees, including the Board on Army Science and Technology, the Committee on Portable Energy Sources for the Objective Force Warrior (of which he was chair) , the Committee on the Future of Personal Transport in China, and the Committee on Army after Next Logistics.
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... He served as chairman of the MTU mechanical engineering and engineering mechanics department from 1986 to 1993. He has served on many committees related to engine technology, engine emissions, and health effects -- for example, committees of SAE, the National Research Council, the Combustion Institute, the Health Effects Institute, and the Environmental Protection Agency -- and consults with a number of government and private-sector institutions.
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... He is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, is an adviser to the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency on Heavy-Fuel Engines, and sits on the advisory board to the College of Engineering and Computer Science of Oakland University in Rochester, MI. He served as a member of the National Research Council Committee on Review of DOE's Office of Heavy Vehicle Technologies Program, Committee on the Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE)
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... Dr. Sawyer has served on numerous National Research Council committees, including the Committee for the Evaluation of the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program, the Committee to Review EPA's Mobile Source Emissions Factor (MOBILE)
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