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SwRI^® engineers receive SAE Forest R. McFarland Award

San Antonio - February 13, 2004 - Two Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI) engineers have been awarded the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Forest R. McFarland Award for their outstanding contributions in aiding the SAE fuels and lubricants activity to organize, develop and disseminate technical information.

Dr. Kent Froelund and Magdi K. Khair, both in SwRI's Engine, Emissions and Vehicle Research Division, exhibited unusual leadership in the organizing of SAE technical sessions and professional development seminars; made outstanding contributions to the overall planning of technical meetings and conferences; contributed greatly to SAE committee work in the form of innovation, operation, meeting structure and format development; and provided outstanding contributions as pre-publication reviewers of draft manuscripts.

The annual SAE awards will be presented at the SAE Honors Convocation, held in tandem with the 2004 SAE World Congress, scheduled March 8-11 in Detroit. Froelund and Khair are two of 20 recipients selected from more than 2,000 SAE Committee chairs eligible for the award.

Froelund has served as chairman of the Passenger Car Lubricants Sessions of the Fuels and Lubricants Meeting and Exposition Conferences since 2000 and also serves on the SAE Transaction Review committee.

A principal engineer at SwRI, Froelund previously has won the SAE Arch T. Colwell Merit Award in 2001 and the SAE Excellence in Oral Presentation Award in 2000.

Froelund received a bachelor's in mechanical engineering from the Technical University of Aalborg (Denmark), a master's from the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), and a doctorate from the Technical University of Denmark of Copenhagen.

Khair is chairman of the Advanced Diesel Aftertreatment Systems session and has served as speaker at the Catalysts and Emissions Control and the Diesel Exhaust Aftertreatment SAE TOPTEC Series.

A staff engineer at the Institute, Khair received the McFarland award in 1996 for his contributions to several diesel-related technical and educational activities.

Khair received a bachelor's in automotive engineering from the Ain Shams University (Cairo, Egypt), a master's in thermodynamics from the University of Birmingham (England), and a master's in business administration from Michigan State University.

For more information, contact Robert Leibold, Communications Department, (210) 522-2258, PO Drawer 28510, San Antonio, TX 78228-0510.

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