SAE International Announces 2011-12 Class of SAE Fellows

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Nov 29, 2011, 12:14 ET

WARRENDALE, Pa., Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nineteen engineers and scientists from industry and academia now have the prestigious SAE International status of "SAE Fellow." Each will be honored during the SAE 2012 World Congress Awards Ceremony.

SAE Fellowship status is the highest grade of membership bestowed by SAE International. It recognizes outstanding engineering and scientific accomplishments by an individual that have resulted in meaningful advances in automotive, aerospace and commercial-vehicle technology. The program, established in 1975, recognizes an average of 20 worldwide recipients for this honor each year.

The 2011-12 recipients, listed in alphabetical order, include:

Dr. Andre L. Boehman, Professor, Fuel Science, Materials Science & Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Andrew Brown, Jr., Director & Chief Technologist, Innovation and Technology Office, Delphi Corporation
Ing. James A. Buczkowski, Henry Ford Technical Fellow & Director of Electrical & Electronics, Ford Motor Company
Dr. Man-Feng Chang, Group Manager & Technical Fellow, Retired, GM Powertrain System Research Lab, General Motors Company
Dr. Mohamed E.M. El-Sayed, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kettering University
Dr. Zoran S. Filipi, Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, The University of Michigan
Ronald J. Herrin, Technical Fellow, GM Powertrain, General Motors Company
Klaus Hoehn, Ph.D., Vice President, Advanced Technology & Engineering, Deere & Company
Dr.-Ing. Peter Hofbauer, Chief Technical Officer, EcoMotors International
Dr. John M. Miller, PE, Distinguished R&D Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Charles J. Mueller, Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
Dr. Douglas J. Nelson, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech
Dr. Paul Richards, Research Fellow, Innopsec Ltd.
Dr. Branko Sarh, Senior Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company
Robert M. Siewert, Technical Fellow, Retired, GM Research & Development Center, General Motors Company
Christopher P. Thomas, Vice President, Advanced Engineering, BorgWarner Inc.
Dr. Andrew P. Walker, Heavy Duty Diesel Global Technology Director, Johnson Matthey plc
Ren-Jye Yang, Ph.D., Senior Technical Leader, Ford Motor Company
Dr. Hua Zhao, Professor, Engineering and Design, Brunel University

SAE International is a global association of more than 132,000 engineers and related technical experts in the aerospace, automotive and commercial-vehicle industries. SAE International's core competencies are life-long learning and voluntary consensus standards development. SAE International's charitable arm is the SAE Foundation, which supports many programs, including A World in Motion® and the Collegiate Design Series.

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