GM Engineers Honored With Environmental Award
FOR RELEASE: May 17, 2001GM Engineers Honored With Environmental Award
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Six General Motors engineers have earned national recognition with the Society of Automotive Engineers' first-ever Environmental Excellence in Transportation (E2T) Award.
The SAE's E2T Award recognizes individuals and their ingenuity in developing innovations that reduce the transportation industry's impact on the environment. The awards were announced Wednesday at the 2001 SAE Government/Industry Meeting. SAE awarded an E2T Award for GM's innovative Oil Life System, a device that will give consumers an accurate and reliable way to monitor engine oil life.
The Oil Life System will help reduce consumers' appetite for oil, protect the environment and save consumers money while still ensuring that engines are properly maintained. The system is scheduled to be on all new North American vehicles by model year 2003.
GM engineers honored were Karl Gilgenbach, Bob Krokosky, Tiny Traylor, Leonard Sackett, Shirley Schwartz and Donald Smolenski.
The Oil Life System was recognized in the Service, Maintenance and Logistics category of the E2T Awards. Neil A. Schilke, General Director of Engineering, Corporate Staffs, General Motors Corporation, is president of the SAE International, an organization of nearly 80,000 members.
General Motors , the world's largest vehicle manufacturer, designs, builds and markets cars and trucks worldwide. In 2000, GM earned $5 billion on sales of $183.3 billion. It employs about 372,000 people globally. GM also operates one of the largest and most successful financial services companies, GMAC, which offers automotive, mortgage and business financing and insurance services to customers worldwide. GM is investing aggressively in digital technology and e-business within its global automotive operations and through such initiatives as e-GM, GM BuyPower, OnStar and its Hughes Electronics Corp. subsidiary. More information on General Motors can be found at www.gm.com.