Mehdi Ahmadian is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech, where he also holds the position of Director of Center for Vehicle Systems and Safety (CVeSS), and the Railway Technologies Laboratory (RTL). He is the founding director of CVeSS, RTL, Virginia Institute for Performance Engineering and Research (VIPER), and the Advanced Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory (AVDL). Dr. Ahmadian has authored more than 200 technical publications, and has made more than one hundred technical presentations in topics related to advanced technologies for ground vehicles. He holds seven U.S. and international patents, and has edited three technical volumes. He is currently Associate Editor of AIAA Journal and the journal of Shock Vibration, and has served as Associate Editor for ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics (1989 – 1996). Dr. Ahmadian is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Senior Member of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and a member of the Society for Automotive Engineers (SAE).

Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Professor and Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan. Co-Director, General Motors Collaborative Research Lab (GMCRL). BS in Marine Engineering from Newcastle University, England (1980); SM in both Naval Architecture and Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1982); SM in Management of Technology from MIT's Sloan School of Management (1986); PhD in Power and Propulsion from MIT (1985). Assistant Professor (1985-90) and Associate Professor (1990-1994) of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Head of the Thermal Sciences/Systems Division II at UIUC and Associate Professor Supercomputing Applications (1992-1994). Research Scientist at UIUC's National Center for Supercomputing Applications (1991-1992). Research Positions: Argonne National Laboratory (1987-1994). Worked as a consultant to numerous projects in both the public and private sector. Research interests include Thermal and fluid sciences and their applications to automotive systems design; internal combustion engine processes and systems; development and validation of transient diesel engine simulation; in-cylinder CFD computations; experimental investigation of heat rejection; unburned hydrocarbon mechanisms and friction in spark-ignition engines.

Professor, Associate Chair and Director of Laboratories, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan. B Tech IIT, New Delhi (1975), SM and PhD, Harvard University (1978, 1983). Areas of interest: combustion, fire, heat and mass transfer, energy conservation, fire suppression, diffusion flame ignition and extinction under microgravity conditions, soot and NOx formation and oxidation in diffusion flames, flame spread, diesel engine combustion. Society memberships: The Combustion Institute, ASME, Sigma Xi, International Association for Fire Safety Science, U.S. - Japan Panel on Fire Research. Honors and Awards: ASME Fellow, DOE Service Award, Research Excellence Award, 1998; Philip Thomas Medal of Excellence, 1994; Presidential Young Investigator Award, NSF 1986. Reviewer: C&F, CST, ASME, AIAA, NSF, NIST.

Vincent Y. Blouin
vblouin@clemson.edu

Associate Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan. BS, MS, and PhD from the University of Michigan (1989, 1992, 1995). Areas of interest: structural dynamics and vibrations, including reduced-order modeling, low- to mid-frequency vibration and power flow in complex structures, localization and related phenomena in periodic or cyclic structures, vibration of mistuned bladed disks in turbine engines. Society membership: ASME and AIAA.

G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Occupational Health, The University of Michigan. Founder and director of the Human Motion Simulation Laboratory. B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering, the former from GMI and the latter from the University of Michigan in 1967. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Chaffin joined the faculty at the University of Kansas Medical Center, in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He returned to the University of Michigan in 1969. Dr. Chaffin has published 115 peer reviewed journal articles, 25 book chapters, and co-authored five books. He has received awards for his research from the Academy of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Society of Automotive Engineering, International Ergonomics Association, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, International Biomechanics Society, American Society of Biomechanics, American Industrial Hygiene Association, and the Institute of Industrial Engineers. His work has been widely recognized and has led to his election into the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Wayne State University (WSU). Diploma BSME and MSME WSU (1980, 1981), PhD - The University of Michigan (1986). Areas of interest: System dynamics, vibration and control with applications involving flexible structures, engine control and vehicle dynamics. Over 30 publications. Professional Reviewing Activities: NSF, US Army, ASME Eng. Foundation, JDSMC, J. Eng. Ind., J. Vib. Acoustics, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Magazine, Optimal Control Applications & Methods and Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. Society membership: ASME and ESD.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Iowa. BS, Yonsei University, Korea (1970); MS, University of Iowa (1977); PhD, The University of Iowa (1980). Areas of interest: mechanical system design sensitivity analysis and optimization of linear and nonlinear structural systems, reliability analysis and reliability-based design optimization, computational methods in mechanics, integration of CAE tools for concurrent engineering. Author/coauthor of over 90 archived journal papers, over 110 conference papers and three books. He is an associate editor of three international journals, Fellow of ASME and Associate Fellow of AIAA.

Director, Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, The University of Michigan. BSME and Math (1960), MSME (1961) PhD (1967) UM. Areas of interest: Auto engines, vehicle design, auto tech. trends and various strategic issues of auto industry. Over 90 publications, including 1992 Delphi Forecast and Analysis of Automotive Technology Through 2003. Society membership: SAE Fellow, Technical Standards Board, Awards ans Recognition Comm. Chair, SAE Boards of Directors, Chair Adv. Powerplant Comm., overall Powerplant Activity, Eng. Activity Board and Fellow Comm., and numerous other comm., Eng. Soc. of Detroit Fellow. Organizer of numerous auto tech and industry conferences, including UM Auto Mgmt Briefing Conf. Awards: SAE Ralph Teetor, Nat'l Automotive Dealers Foundation Freedom of Mobility, Sweden's Order of the Polar Star.

Darren M. Dawson received a B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1984. He then worked for Westinghouse as a control engineer from 1985 to 1987. In 1987, he returned to the Georgia Institute of Technology where he received the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering in March 1990. In July 1990, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department where he currently holds the position of McQueen Quattlebaum Professor. Professor Dawson research interests Nonlinear Control Techniques for Mechatronic Applications such as Electric Machinery, Robotic Systems, Aerospace Systems, Acoustic Noise, Underactuated Systems, Magnetic Bearings, Mechanical Friction, Paper Handling/Textile Machines, Flexible Beams/Robots/Rotors, Cable Structures, and Vision-Based Systems. He also focuses on the development of Realtime Hardware and Software Systems for Control Implementation.

Professor and Co-Director of the Clemson Research in Engineering Design and Optimization (CREDO) Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering Department, Clemson University. Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) Zurich, Switzerland (1976), MS in Computer Science (1978) and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (1988) from Georgia Tech. Taught at Georgia Tech until 1992 and then joined the faculty at Clemson in the area of Mechanical Systems and Manufacturing, specifically responsible for teaching and research in design, optimization and CAD. Areas of interest: design methodology, design automation (optimization and CAD) and prototyping (physical and virtual). Spent a summer at NASA Langley and another at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, working on optimization and approximation, and then on multidisciplinary design. Society Membership: ASME, AIAA, ISSMO.

Hosam K Fathy
hfathy@umich.edu

Research Professor and ARC Assistant Director, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan. BSE & MSE University of Belgrade (1980, 87); Fulbright Scholar at the University of Illinois, U-C (1989-90); PhD University of Belgrade (1992). Areas of interest: modeling of engine physical processes and engine systems, advanced experimental techniques for transient engine testing, turbocharging, aftertreatment, homogeneous charge compression ignition engines and hybrid propulsion systems for advanced trucks. Over 38 publications. Awards: Society of Automotive Engineer's Excellence in Oral Presentation Award, 2001; UM College of Engineering Outstanding Research Scientist Award, 2002. Society membership: ASME (IC Engine Division Associate), SAE.

Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University. Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA (2005), M.S. in Material Science from Iowa State, Ames, IA (1999), M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Siberian Aerospace Academy, Krasnoyarsk, Russia (1998). Areas of interest: mechanics of composite structures, optimization of composite structures, evolutionary algorithms, approximation algorithms, configuration design and packaging optimization.

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Unversity of Michigan. B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Unversity of California, Davis (1986); M.M. San Francisco Conservatory of Music (1989); M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (1993); Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (1996). Areas of Interest: Haptic interface to remote and virtual environments, force-reflecting interface for automobile and aircraft control, identification and control of discontinuous systems, and computational mutibody dynamics. Also involved in the design and anlysis of cobots (robots that collaborate with humans). Publications appear in such journals as IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation and the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. Society memberships include ASME and IEEE.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks. B.S., Physics, University of Washington, Seattle (1981); B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle (1981); M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks (1984); Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (1989). Areas of Interest: Thermodynamics and fluids associated with heat and mass transfer in porous media, natural convection heat transfer, unsteady laminar flows, thermodynamics and heat transfer involved in power production and engine design, environmental heat transfer. Publications appear in such journals as Nordic Hydrology, Cold Regions Science and Technology, and the International Journal of Heat Mass Transfer. Society memberships include ASME and SAE.

Tim Gordon is Research Professor at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), Head of the UMTRI Engineering Research Division, and holds a joint appointment in the College of Engineering as Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He has been at UM since September 2003, and was previously Ford Professor of Automotive Engineering in the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering at Loughborough University, U.K. There he was Department Chair and played a leadership role in the automotive activities within the university, including industrial and government links. Dr Gordon obtained both his Bachelors and Doctorate in Applied Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, England. His doctoral dissertation was in the area of relativistic wave propagation in multi-dimensional geometries. His research interests are centered in the field of dynamic systems and control, with particular emphasis on automotive systems, and most recently in the dynamics of driving.

Dr. Gorsich is a Research Scientist, U.S. Army Tank-Automotive an Armaments Command and Chief Scientist, U.S. Army National Automotive Center. He has a BSEE, LTU (1990); MS Applied Mathematics, GWU (1994); PhD Applied Mathematics, MIT (2000). He is Director, TARDEC Robotics Mobility Lab, and federal government sponsor of the Automotive Research Center. His current research interests are approximation, spatial statistics, robotics, and learning theory, and has numerous journal publications in these areas.

Carver Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director, NADS and Simulation Center, The University of Iowa. BSME, University of Missouri-Rolla (1962); MS, Kansas State (1964); PhD, University of Missouri-Rolla (1966). US Army Weapons Command and Armaments Command(1966-76). Areas of interest: mechanical system analysis and design optimization, dynamics of mechanisms and machines, computational methods in mechanics. Author of more than 200 technical papers and author/editor of 14 books. Editor, Mechanics of Structures and Machines. Associate Editor of four additional journals. Director, four NATO Advanced Study Institute Workshops.

Professor, Director, Center for Automotive Research, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. BSME Cairo Univ. (1949), MSME Alexandria (1952), PhD University of Michigan (1957). Areas of interest: Combustion engines: gasoline and diesel, autoignition, combustion, heat transfer, cold starting, friction and wear. Over 100 publications, a book and two inventions. Fellow of ASME, SAE and ESD. Member: Combustion Institute and STLE.

Professor, Associate Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan. BS Virginia Tech (78), MS Univ. of Wisconsin- Madison (79), Stanford (89). Areas of interest: flexible multibody system simulation, computational mechanics, system integration, terrain characterization and mobility, tire modeling, robotics modeling.

Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan; Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (1989); B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (1991); M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan(2001); Ph.D. Areas of Interest: Internal combustion engines; powertrain; modeling and computer simulation of engine processes and systems; turbocharging, combustion, heat transfer and pollutant emissions in engines; vehicle and engine system integration modeling; hybrid powertrain modeling; heat transfer and humidification modeling of fuel cell. Society memberships include ASME and SAE.

Roger L. McCarthy Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan. BSE (1974) Tokyo Inst. of Tech MS (1975) PhD (1977) U of Texas. Areas of interest: structural design optimization, adaptive finite-element and difference methods for solids, large deformation analysis of finite strain elastic-plastic and viscoplastic materials for metal/sheet metal forming processes, computation mechanics of composite materials and contact friction interface mechanics. Published over 60 papers, 25 book chapters and co-authored Finite Element Methods in Mechanics, Contact Problems in Elasticity and Computational Contact Mechanics. Member of SIAM, ASME, SAE, SES, JSME and ASC.

Associate Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan. Diploma in Aerospace Engineering, Munich University of Technology (1992); Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Rice University (1998). Areas of interests: multidisciplinary analysis and optimization, design under uncertainty, systems engineering, product platform and family design

Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Wayne State University. Diploma BS - National Taiwan University (1979), MS and PhD - Pennsylvania State University (1985), Postdoctoral fellow - The University of Michigan (1985-86), Research Associate - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1986-87). Areas of interest: Laser-based optical diagnostics and multidimensional numerical models as applied to energy systems which involve spray turbulent mixing, combustion, and heat transfer processes. Over 200 publications. Society membership: ASME, AIAA, SAE, The Combust. Inst., ILASS.

Visiting Assistant Professor at Clemson University teaching in the Department of Math Sciences and doing research in collaboration with the Mechanical Engineering Department, funded by the Tank Army Command (TACOM) through the Automotive Research Center. BA in Math (1982) from Mississippi University for Women, MS in Math (1985) from Purdue University, PhD in Math Sciences (1993) from Clemson University. Taught at Anderson College in Anderson, SC, 1985-87. Has been teaching and doing research at Clemson part-time on and off (between babies) since 1993. Earlier research funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research; more recently through the ARC. Areas of interest: optimization involving large-scale decomposition and math/integer programming.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks. B.S., Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan (1973). M.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (1979), Ph.D., Iowa State University (1983). Areas of interest: Plasticity and damage mechanics, Distributed Computing. Publications appear in forums such as the ASME Journal of Engineeing Materials and Technology, the International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering, and the International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. Society memberships: ASME, SEM.

Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan. Diploma in ME from National Technical University of Athens (1992), MSE and PhD, The University of Michigan (1994, 1998). Areas of interest: dynamic systems, physical based system modeling, model reduction and automated modeling, automotive systems, controller design, and computer aided design. Society membership: ASME, SAE, and SCS.

Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan. BS(1981) MS(1984) Jilin University of Technology, China; PhD Kyoto University, Japan. Areas of interest: flexible multibody dynamics, structural dynamics, vibration and sound, structural optimization. Over 40 publications. Society membership: ASME, JMSE and USACM. Japan Association of Automatic Control Engineers Sawaragi Merit Award (1988), SAE Arch T. Colwell Merit Award (1991), JSME Best Paper Award (1991), Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Best Paper Award (1995).

Associate Professor, Department of Industrial And Operations Engineering, Research Scientist, Division of Kinesiology, The University of Michigan; Engineering Degree in Applied Physics, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique (Marseille, France); Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Doctorat Es Sciences in Life Science, Université de Provence, (Marseille, France); His research is centered on the study of human motion and muscle fatigue. He has a specific interest in sensorimotor control systems and the application of this knowledge to the fields of human performance, biomechanics ergonomics and hence to safety of human-machine interaction. Neurophysiological, behavioral, biomechanical and modeling approaches are used as complementary methods. Models of various types are used both to understand motor control and to design vehicle interiors, man-machine interfaces, workspace or hand tools.

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Oakland University. BS in Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from National Technical University of Athens, Greece (1980); MSE in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from University of Michigan (1982); MSE in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan (1983); PhD in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from University of Michigan (1985). Senior Research Engineer (1985-1991) and Staff Research Engineer (1992-2002) at General Motors R&D Center. Adjunct Lecturer (1986-1992), Adjunct Assistant Professor (1992-1998) and Adjunct Associate Professor (1998-2002) at The University of Michigan. Research interests include Design under Uncertainty; Reliability-Based Design Optimization (RBDO); Reliability Analysis with Insufficient Data; Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) under Uncertainty; Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH); Internal Combustion Engine Dynamics; Dynamic Substructuring of Large-Scale, Complex Structures; Elastohydrodynamic (EHD) Bearing Lubrication.

Donald C. Graham Professor of Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Art and Design, Professor of Architecture, The University of Michigan. Diploma ME/EE NTU-Athens (1974), MS and PhD Stanford (1976, 1979). Faculty member at Michigan since 1979; ME department Chair 1992-98; founding director of Ford Automotive Structural Durability Simulation Center, US Army Automotive Research Center, General Motors Collaborative Research Laboratory. Areas of interest: design methods and systems design optimization, with applications to product development, and automotive systems. Publications: over 150 articles; textbook Principles of Optimal Design: Modeling and Computation (1988, 1991, 2000). Society memberships: ASME, INFORMS, MPS, SIAM, SME, SAE, AIAA, ISSMO and ASEE. Editorial Boards: Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design and Manufacturing, Engineering Design, Engineering Optimization, Computer-Integrated Engineering, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, and Engineering Simulation. Awards: Fellow of ASME (1992), Design Automation Award (ASME 1998), Machine Design Award (ASME 1999).

Chief, Simulator Technology Branch, the National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS), The University of Iowa. BSEE, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (1988). MSEE, Purdue University (1989), PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa (1993). Member of original design team of the Iowa Driving Simulator and developer of the ICON software used currently in the IDS and used as the starting point for the NADS real time system. Has managed federal and industry funded projects on R&D related to driving simulation technology in the US and Europe. Areas of interest: virtual environment modeling, modeling of driving behaviors, driving scenario authoring and control, real time systems. Society memberships: IEEE, IEEE computer, TRB, and the TRB A3B06 subcommittee,

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Director, Automotive Engineering Program, The University of Michigan. BS National Taiwan University-Taipei (1984), MS, Pennsylvania State University (1988), PhD, UC Berkeley (1992). Areas of interest: vehicle dynamics and control, intelligent vehicle/highway systems, advanced control theory. Over 50 publications. NSF CAREER Award (1998). Society membership: ASME, SAE. Associate editor of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.

Research Director, Human Motion Simulation Laboratory (HUMOSIM), Center for Ergonomics, Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) Department, The University of Michigan. Associate Research Scientist, Biosciences Division, The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). SAE Award for Excellence in Oral Presentation nine times; Lloyd L. Withrow Distinguished Speaker Award in 1997 and 2004; Outstanding paper awards from the Society of Automotive Engineers including the Arch T. Colwell Merit Award in 2005, the Myers Award in 2000, and the Isbrandt Award in 1996 and 2004.

Noel C. Perkins
ncp@umich.edu

Dr. Sandu graduated with an Engineer Diploma from the Mechanical Engineering Department at Bucharest Polytechnic Institute, Romania, in 1991. For graduate studies she attended the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Iowa where she specialized in Vehicle Dynamics and Multibody System Dynamics. Dr. Sandu obtained her M.S. degree in 1995 and her Ph.D. in 2000. Between 1999 and 2003 she worked at Michigan Technological University as a visiting/research faculty. Since 2003 Dr. Sandu has been an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Since September 2004, she has also been the Director of the Advanced Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory.

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan. MS '92, MS '94, PhD '96, University of Michigan. Diploma '91, National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Named as one of World's Top 100 Young Innovators in technology and business by Technology Review magazine, 2002. 2002 SAE Teetor Educational Award. Ford Innovation Awards (based on patents issued and publications), 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001. National Science Foundation (NSF), CAREER Award, 1997. Her research interests are in powertrain and propulsion control, vehicle/transportation control, modular controller architectures for industrial applications, multivariable feedback control.

Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Clemson Research in Engineering Design and Optimization (CREDO) Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering Department, Clemson University. BS (1996) and MS (1998) in Mechanical Engineering from University of Missouri - Columbia and Ph.D. (2004) in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University. Dr. Summers joined the faculty at Clemson University to enhance the design theory and automation research field, specifically focusing on computer enhanced collaborative design and computer aided geometric design. His work has been fundamental in the development of a CAD query language for retrieval, reuse, and modification of solid CAD models for new applications. Dr. Summers was a Graduate Intern at the Naval Research Lab (Virtual Reality) in 1997 and 1998 and served on then Senator John D. Ashcroft's staff as a Senatorial Intern reporting to the Foreign Relations and Armed Forces legislative assistants in 1998. Recently, Dr. Summers was an ASEE/ONR Summer Faculty Fellow, working with the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence - Intelligent Decision Aids Group working on behavior modeling for computer generated forces simulation. He leads the Automation in Design (AiD) group and research interests include: collaborative design, 3D knowledge management, complexity in design, geometric CAD, configuration based design, design reviews, virtual reality, and design automation tools. Dr. Summers holds memberships in ASME, ASEE, IEEE, ACM, and The Design Society.