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