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SAE Names 16 New Fellows

8 January 1999

SAE Names 16 New Fellows

    WARRENDALE, Pa., Jan. 7 -- Sixteen outstanding automotive
engineers will be honored as Fellows of the Society of Automotive Engineers
(SAE) at the Honors Convocation and Luncheon of the SAE Congress '99 on
Tuesday, March 2, at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan.
    The Fellow grade of membership allows SAE to recognize members for
exceptional personal contributions to the advancement of mobility technology
of all self-propelled machinery -- on land, in the sea, air and space.
    The new SAE Fellows are:
    Dr. Thomas W. Asmus, Senior Research Executive, Daimler/Chrysler
Corporation, Auburn Hills Michigan
    Dr. Rodica A. Baranescu, Chief Engineer -- Engine Analysis, Navistar
International Engine & Foundry Division, Melrose Park, Illinois
    Dr. John E. Dec, Senior Technical Staff, Combustion Research, Sandia
National Laboratories, Livermore, California
    Nicholas Gallopoulos, Department Head, General Motors Research &
Development Center, Warren, Michigan
    S. Michael Hudson, President CEO & COO, Rolls-Royce Allison, Indianapolis,
Indiana
    Dr. Stefan Korcek, Senior Staff Technical Specialist, Ford Motor Company,
Dearborn, Michigan
    Dr. David R. Lancaster, Principal Research Engineer and Section Manager,
Powertrain Control and Integration, GM Research and Development Center,
Warren, Michigan
    Wolfgang Maus, Chairman, Board of Management, Emitec, GmbH, Lohmar,
Germany
    Thomas F. McDonnell, Director, OEM Liaison, Ethyl Corporation, Southfield,
Michigan
    Dr. Shirley E. Schwartz, Senior Staff Research Scientist, GM R&D
Operations, Warren, Michigan
    Dr. Dennis L. Siebers, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia
National Laboratories, Livermore, California
    Robert W. Stieg, Mack Trucks, Inc., Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
    Dr. Yasuo Takagi, Research Director, Nissan Research Center, Yokosuka,
Japan
    Dr. Jack E. Thompson, Executive Engineer, Daimler/Chrysler Corporation,
Auburn Hills, Michigan
    Akihiro Wada, Executive Vice President, Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota
Aichi, Japan
    Dr. Peter W. Witze, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia
National Laboratories, Livermore, California
    Since SAE began the Fellow program in 1976, it has selected only 402 of
80,000 members to receive the honor.  Fellow candidates must be SAE members
for at least ten years and still be a voting member at the time of election.
Voting members nominate candidates and five other member references must
support each nominee.  Twenty-eight individuals were nominated this year.
    For more information or to register for SAE Congress '99, call
1-877-SAECONG (723-2664) or visit the SAE website at http://www.sae.org.