| Group Vice President of General Motors | | | | fuel economy, enhanced performance, reduce |
| Powertrain, Tom Stephens was elected as the | | | | emissions and increase customer choice. In |
| new member of the National Academy of | | | | addition, Stephen's team is also working on a |
| Engineering (NAE). | | | | number of future technologies that will |
| | | | provide customers with far more options |
| NAE or National Academy of Engineering was | | | | including plug-in hybrid technology and GM's |
| established in 1964 and operates under the | | | | range-extending hybrid electric drivetrain |
| Congressional Charter granted by the National | | | | equipped in the Chevrolet Volt concept. |
| Academy of Science in 1863. The members of | | | | |
| this organization are comprised of the | | | | Stephen occupies a position in General |
| nation's premier engineers who are voted by | | | | Motors' Energy and Environmental Strategy |
| their peers for their extraordinary | | | | Board and serves on the automaker's North |
| contributions to engineering. | | | | American and Automotive Strategy Boards. He |
| | | | also serves on the board of directors for |
| The election in NAE which is attended by | | | | FIRST or For Inspiration and Recognition of |
| about 2,200 US members is among the highest | | | | Science and Technology Robotics Competition. |
| professional merit afforded to an engineer. | | | | Add to his long list of positions hold at the |
| The Academy members pay tribute to those who | | | | moment, is his membership at the Detroit |
| have shared outstanding contributions to | | | | Science Center Board of Trustees. He also |
| engineering research, practice, or education, | | | | holds a position on the University of |
| pioneering and developing new fields of | | | | Michigan National Advisory Council. |
| technology, and sponsoring major advancements | | | | |
| in traditional fields of engineering. | | | | General Motors Corporation is the world's |
| | | | largest automaker and has been the leader in |
| The global powertain organization that | | | | the global industry sales for 76 years. It |
| Stephens is heading is comprised of 52,000 | | | | was founded in 1908 and currently employs |
| employees working at more than eighty | | | | about 284,000 employees around the world. Its |
| manufacturing plants and engineering centers | | | | global headquarters is in Detroit. General |
| in 17 countries. The organization can produce | | | | Motors manufactures cars and trucks in |
| about thirty-six thousand engine and | | | | thirty-three countries. GM is used not only |
| thirty-two thousand transmissions a day. | | | | as an acronym for the company itself but also |
| | | | used to refer to its line of auto parts like |
| According to Automotive Engineering | | | | GM parking light, GM oxygen sensor and more. |
| International's editor Lindsay Brooke, | | | | |
| Stephen's powertrain team is launching a new | | | | General Motors has sold nearly 9.1 million |
| wave of gasoline and clean diesel engines, | | | | vehicles last year under the following |
| six-speed transmissions, hybrids and | | | | brands: Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC, GM, |
| alternative-fuel powertrains for General | | | | Daewoo, Holden, HUMMER, OPel, Pontiac, Saab, |
| Motors' cars and trucks that will improved | | | | Saturn, and Vauxhall. |