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TACH Congratulates The 18 New SAE Fellows

22 December 2000

SAE Names 18 New Fellows

    WARRENDALE, Pa., Dec. 22 Eighteen outstanding engineers,
executives, scientists and consultants from the automotive industry have been
chosen as Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Fellows for 2001.
    The honorees will receive their recognition at the SAE Honors Convocation
and Luncheon on March 6 at 11:45 a.m. in the Riverview Ballroom at the 2001
SAE World Congress in Cobo Center, Detroit, MI.
    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, on the sea, in the air and space.
    Since SAE began the Fellow program in 1976, it has selected only 428 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.

    The new SAE Fellows are:

    -- Constantine Arcourmanis, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, City
University London, England

    -- Richard W. Anderson, Senior Staff Technical Specialist, Ford Motor
Company, Dearborn, Michigan

    -- Bradford Bates, former Chief Engineer THINK Technologies, Ford Motor
Company, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    -- Professor Raymond M. Brach, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical
Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana

    -- Robert P. Caren, Chairman, Litex Inc., Westlake Village, California

    -- Dr. Edward G. Groff, Engineering Group Manager, GM Powertrain Group,
Warren, Michigan

    -- Dr. T.R. Jagadeesan (retired) Dean Anna University, Besantnauar
Tamilnato, India

    -- Dr. Hideo Kawamura, Executive Director, Apex Co., Ltd., Atsugishi,
Japan

    -- Dr. Roger B. Krieger, Group Manager, General Motors Research and
Development Center, Warren, Michigan

    -- Radhey Lal Kushwaha, Professor, Agricultural and Bioresource
Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

    -- Dr. Robert S. Levine, Medical Director, Bioengineering Center, Wayne
State University, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

    -- Dr. William F. Powers, Vice President-Research, Ford Motor Company,
Dearborn, Michigan

    -- Roy J. Primus, Executive Director -- Technology, Cummins, Inc.
Columbus, Indiana

    -- Dr. Thomas W. Ryan III, Institute Engineer, Southwest Research
Institute, San Antonio, Texas

    -- Dr. Richard G. Snyder, President, Biodynamics International, Tuscon,
Arizona

    -- Dr. Simon C. Tung, Staff Research Engineer, General Motors Research &
Development Planning Center, Warren, Michigan

    -- Professor James S. Wallace, Chair, Department of Mechanical and
Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    -- Professor Desmond E. Winterbone, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Academic
Development, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology,
Manchester, England