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Instructor Biographies
Saha, Pranab
Pranab Saha, Ph.D., P.E., INCE Bd. Cert. is the Principal Consultant and co-founder of Kolano and Saha Engineers, Inc., an independent professional engineering and consulting company in acoustics, noise and vibration control. Dr. Saha, a well-known authority on automotive acoustics, sound package materials, and body interior systems, has directed and participated nationally and internationally in numerous advanced noise control engineering programs for OEM companies and their suppliers. Dr. Saha has been an SAE Member since 1987, has served on the Noise and Vibration General Committee since 1988 and was the Conference Chair in 2005. Since 1988, he is a member of the Acoustical Materials Committee in the SAE Technical Standards Board, was the committee chair from 1996 through 2001, and has been directly involved with developing various standards for evaluating the performance of acoustical materials. Dr. Saha is also the Chair of the Technical Quality Response Team (TQRT), a member of the Engineering Meetings Board, Professional Development Instructor, Lead Faculty Member of the SAE Vehicle Interior Noise Academy, and the SAE Master Instructor. Dr. Saha holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Acoustics Specialty) from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Schmid, Steven R.

Dr. Schmid is an Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame, where he conducts research and teaches courses in manufacturing, metal forming, tribology and design. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Schmid was a project engineer at Triodyne, Inc., a consulting ﬁrm specializing in machine and manufacturing/product consulting with a special emphasis on safety. As such, he has visited hundreds of manufacturing facilities as diverse as sugar cane plants in Hawaii to battery factories in Vermont, and has been a consultant to industry and government. He is a past recipient of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers John T. Parsons Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, has won numerous teaching awards, and was named a Kaneb Center Teaching Faculty Fellow at the University of Notre Dame in 2003. Dr. Schmid has organized numerous conferences, and has written over 80 technical papers and eight books and book chapters. He holds a Professional Engineer’s license and is a Certiﬁed Manufacturing Engineer. Dr. Schmid is a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology and Northwestern University.

Schoﬁeld, Alan

Sandborn, Peter

Dr. Peter Sandborn is a Professor in the CALCE Electronic Products and Systems Center at the University of Maryland. Dr. Sandborn’s group develops obsolescence forecasting algorithms, performs strategic design refresh planning, and lifetime buy quantity optimization. Dr. Sandborn is the developer of the MOCA refresh planning tool. MOCA has been used by private and government organizations worldwide to perform optimized refresh planning for systems subject to technology obsolescence. Dr. Sandborn also performs research in several other life cycle cost modeling areas including maintenance planning and return on investment analysis for the application of prognostics and health management (PHM) to systems, total cost of ownership of electronic parts, transition from tinlead to lead-free electronics, and general technology tradeoff analysis for electronic systems. Dr. Sandborn is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Performability Engineering. He is a past conference chair and program chair of the ASME Design for Manufacturing and Life Cycle Conference. He is the author of over 150 technical publications and several books on electronic packaging and electronic systems cost analysis. He was also recognized as the winner of the 2004 SOLE Proceedings and 2006 Eugene L. Grant awards. He has a B.S. in Engineering Physics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a M.S. in Electrical Science and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Alan Schoﬁeld is an active consultant for Greene, Tweed & Co., where he recently retired as Global Director of Engineering. With global responsibility for the engineering function of the organization’s ﬁve business groups, as well as the Central Engineering function, Mr. Schoﬁeld was in charge of the management of all aspects of engineering design, product and material development covering applications engineering, R&D, validation, and in-service engineering support of all products. The Global Engineering function consisted of 118 engineers and support staff distributed over 10 sites in the USA, UK, France, Germany, Japan and Singapore. Mr. Schoﬁeld was also Aerospace Engineering Manager prior to his appointment as Global Director. Prior to that he was with Coorstek as Director of Engineering Sales and Marketing, at Fluorocarbon Co. (now St. Gobain) as Seals Product Manager, at Shamban Intl. as Engineering Manager , and at W. S. Shamban & Co. (now Trelleborg) as Sales Engineer. The holder of three U.S. patents involving seal design and application, Mr. Schoﬁeld presently serves on the Steering Council for the SAE-A6 Fluid Power, Actuation and Control Technology Committee. Additionally, he also represented Airbus on the SAE-A6C2 Seals Panel, serving as Panel Chair for eight years and Secretary for six years. He has also served as a member of the SAE- AMS Committee P (Polymers) for twenty-three years and the AMS Committee CE (Elastomers) for fourteen years. During his participation in SAE committees, Mr. Schoﬁeld has acted as sponsor for twenty-two document reviews and sponsor for the publication of six new documents. Mr. Schoﬁeld received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in the UK.

Schaefer, W. Scott

Schubert, Peter J.

W. Scott Schaefer has been employed at Moog Inc. for thirty- ﬁve years, mostly in the aircraft ﬂight control arena. He has held various management and engineering positions, including key positions in the development of various aircraft actuation systems, including the DHC-8, X-¬29, B-2, V-22, F-35, B-787 and KC-46 refueling boom. Before joining Moog, Mr. Schaefer was a Senior Systems Engineer at Link Aviation where he helped develop motion systems and control loading systems for Link’s line of ﬂight simulators. He is a member of the SAE- A-6 Aerospace Actuation, Control and Fluid Power Systems committee and is currently the Chairman of the Actuation and Control subcommittee. For over twenty years, Mr. Schaefer has held ofﬁces in a number of committees and sponsored numerous technical documents. He received both his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University and also an MBA from the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Dr. Schubert is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), and holds the position of Director, Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy. He has served as principal investigator on engineering research grants from NASA, DOE, USDA, DoD, and the General Services Administration. He has over 25 years experience in automotive electronics and was previously a Technical Fellow at Delphi Electronics & Safety where he worked on advanced crash sensing and occupant detection methods. Dr. Schubert teaches vehicle rollover sensing and discrimination algorithms for SAE, has taught numerous courses in model-based design, and delivered an introduction to nanotechnology for the U.S. government. He has 35 U.S. patents and over 75 technical publications covering a wide range of engineering ﬁelds. Dr. Schubert has a B.A. in Physics from Washington University, a M.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.

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