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Over the course of his career Mr. Blakemore has been granted several patents including patents for State Of Charge Determination, Distance to Empty Calculation, and patents for fuel cells and oxygen batteries. Mr. Blakemore has a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of the State of New York.

experiences span commercial aircraft, military aircraft, and space vehicle ﬁber optics development and acquisition, and government and corporate-sponsored ﬁber optics and photonics science and technology programs. Mr. Beranek’s early aerospace career focused on development of optoelectronic device and package design and assembly technology for digital ﬁber optic transceiver applications including the Boeing 777, NASA Earth Observer One, and Boeing X-32 Joint Strike Fighter. More recently, Mr. Beranek has been working on military aircraft ﬁber optics acquisition and science & technology programs in the areas of advanced component design, qualiﬁcation, standardization, supportability, maintainability and manufacturing technology development. Mr. Beranek has held ﬁber optics committee chairmanship positions for the IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society, IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society and IEEE Photonics Society, and the SAE Avionics Systems Division. Mr. Beranek holds a B.S. in Technology and Management from the University of Maryland, University College, a B.S. in Chemistry from Northern Illinois University, and an A.S. Certiﬁcate in Electronics from Harper College.

Boehman, André

Berry, Paul

Paul Berry is currently the Powertrain Core Competency Project Manager at Ford Motor Company. During his tenure with Ford, Mr. Berry has been a Powertrain Systems Engineering Technical Specialist responsible for deﬁning processes, methods, tools and training for implementing the systems engineering approach within the powertrain community. He implemented a common set of vehicle attributes, attribute cascade diagrams, trade-off studies, and interface diagrams. Mr. Berry authored the Ford Product Development System (FPDS) Targets Balancing and Cascading course, which was delivered both in North America and Europe. He is a co-author of the Ford Systems Engineering Fundamentals course, and has received two Quality Awards. Mr. Berry has also led systems engineering projects for aerospace, highway, rail and water-borne vehicles, as well as for consumer electronic systems. He is a Certiﬁed Six Sigma Black Belt and teaches systems engineering subjects as well as both executive and technicallevel Design for Six Sigma classes. Mr. Berry has taught courses at Boston University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has lectured at the University of Detroit-Mercy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A member of SAE and INCOSE, Mr. Berry holds a B.S. and M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

André Boehman is a Professor of Fuel Science and Materials Science and Engineering in the Department of Energy & Geo-Environmental Engineering in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University, where he has taught courses on Energy, Fuels, Combustion and the Environment since 1994. At the Penn State Energy Institute, Prof. Boehman manages the Diesel Combustion and Emissions Laboratory. Professor Boehman’s research interests are in alternative and reformulated fuels, combustion and pollution control. His present research activities are focused on alternative diesel fuels, diesel combustion and diesel exhaust aftertreatment. He is presently on the Editorial Board of Fuel Processing Technology and holds executive positions with the American Chemical Society Division of Fuel Chemistry and with the International DME Association. He has received the 1999 Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Dayton School of Engineering, the 1999 Matthew and Anne Wilson Award for Outstanding Teaching from the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and the Philip L. Walker Jr. Faculty Fellowship in Materials Science and Engineering, from 1995-97. He also received the 1986 Charles T. Main Bronze Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has supervised seventeen M.S. theses and ﬁve doctoral theses at Penn State, and he has published more than 36 refereed papers and book chapters. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Dayton (1986) and an M.S. (1987) and Ph.D. (1993) in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Molecular Physics Laboratory at SRI International, Menlo Park, California.

Bogden, Dennis

Billington, Scott

Mr. Scott Billington is the Strategy Director for Meggitt Sensing Systems, a SBU of Meggitt PLC based out of Atlanta, GA. Prior to his current position, Mr. Billington was the Director of Product Management for the Energy product lines of Meggitt/Vibro-meter in Fribourg, Switzerland. He ﬁrst joined the company in 2007 and moved to Switzerland, when Radatek, a Georgia Tech startup company he founded, was acquired by Meggitt PLC.

Mr. Bogden is currently owner and chief engineer of Robotronics SP which consults on embedded controls subjects, teaches embedded controls, and is involved in robotic events. Mr. Bogden previously worked on embedded electronic control design as both a “hands-on” engineer and executive leader at General Motors. He is an expert in engine and transmission embedded control along with microcontroller hardware and software design and mechatronics/system architecture design. Mr. Bogden currently writes embedded design articles for Servo and other magazines. He has provided embedded system consulting with Delphi Automotive, Inﬁneon, Dorman Products, and General Motors. Mr. Bogden has many SAE awards relating to Optimizing Powertrain Control activities. He has three embedded control related patents. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Lawrence Technological University and Master in Business Management from Central Michigan University.

Bolourchi, Farhad

Blakemore, Bruce

Bruce Blakemore Mr. Blakemore is currently a Technical Expert in battery manufacturing and system integration at Ford Motor Company. Mr. Blakemore has been developing and manufacturing batteries for over 25 years. He began his career by designing Nickel Cadmium, Nickel Metal Hydride and Nickel Hydrogen batteries for aerospace usage. Bruce went on to be principal design engineer for the EV1 and then the principle manufacturing product engineer for the assigned manufacturing plant. Over the next two decades Mr. Blakemore has had many roles in battery design and manufacturing including plant chief manufacturing engineer, quality manager, and HV Battery controls engineer. Mr. Blakemore has played key design and integration roles in many EV programs including: GM EV1, Ford Ranger, Ford Escape Hybrid, and the Ford Electric Transit Connect.

Dr. Bolourchi is currently a staff research engineer II with Nexteer Automotive Innovation Center where he designs algorithms for advanced chassis systems. Farhad helped develop Delphi’s ﬁrst electric power steering system, for which he received the company’s highest technical award, the “Boss Kettering”. Dr. Bolourchi previously worked for Hughes Aircraft Company and gained valuable experience in both missile systems controls and automotive applications. He was also a part time faculty member at the University of California - Davis and Sacramento State University. Farhad received GM’s President Honors award in 1998, and was inducted to Delphi’s Hall of Fame in 1999. He has numerous publications and patents related to control systems and automotive applications. Dr. Bolourchi has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University, a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D in Nonlinear Control Systems from the University of California - Davis.

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