International Automotive Expert To Deliver ISA's 1999 Rimbach Lecture
14 January 1999
International Automotive Expert To Deliver ISA's 1999 Rimbach Lecture
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Jan. 14 -- ISA, the
international society for measurement and control, announces that Professor
Bert Breuer will deliver the 1999 Rimbach Lecture at its annual President's
Winter Meeting. Breuer's lecture, "Global Aspects of 21st Century Mobility:
Vehicle Configurations, Ecological Stewardship and Developing Nations," is
scheduled for 1:00 p.m., Sunday 7 February 1999 at The Catamaran Resort Hotel
in San Diego, Calif. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Professor Breuer's lecture will highlight global roles in road transport
and geographic differences, road transport's share in energy consumption and
emissions, and the internal combustion engine vs. electric and hybrid engines.
Professor Breuer will also provide perspective on such questions as, What is
happening to public transportation? Will cars become self-controlled, mobile
workstations that interact with highway, GPS and traffic intelligence? What
are future engineers' potentials for global transportation needs?
Professor Breuer is the director of Automotive Engineering at Darmstadt
University in Germany where he served as Dean of the ME Faculty from 1985-86.
He chaired the Automotive Division of the VDI (the Association of German
Engineers) and served as the president of FISITA (the International Federation
of Automotive Engineering Societies) from 1996 to 1998.
Professor Breuer is the author of more than 100 technical papers and holds
several patents in automotive engineering. He is the recipient of the Borchers
Medal presented by Aachen University and the Benz-Daimler-Maybach medal
awarded by the VDI.
The Rimbach Lectures were established in memory of Richard Rimbach, long
considered the Father of ISA, for his lifetime of service in advancing
industrial instrumentation and controls and for his role founding ISA in 1945.
The Rimbach Lecture recognizes the achievements of selected industry leaders
and provides a forum for them to impart their experiences and views to ISA
members and future industry leaders.
For more information on the Rimbach lecture, call ISA Member and Customer
Service at (919) 549-8411 or e-mail info@isa.org. For more information on ISA,
visit http://www.isa.org.
About ISA
ISA is a 47,000-member international, nonprofit, educational organization.
The Society fosters advancement in the theory, design, manufacture, and use of
instruments, computers, and systems for measurement and control.
In addition to hosting the largest conferences and exhibitions for
instrumentation and control in the Western Hemisphere, ISA is a leading
training organization and a respected publisher of books, magazines, and
consensus standards. And, ISA serves the professional development and
credentialing needs of Control Systems Engineers (CSE), instrument
technicians, and others within the field of measurement and control.