January 13. 2009        

CAViDS January Advisory Board Meeting at WMU

Dale Kwasniewski is honored for his participation in the founding of CAViDS. While with Eaton Corporation, Truck Componenents Operaions, Dale was instrumental in strategic formulation of the objectives, interactive structure, and organization of CAViDS. He was responsible for the inital deliverables from CAViDS to Eaton and the value that they brought. The CAViDS consortium has drawn great benefits from Dale's significant insight, work ethic and organizational skills.

He is presented with the Distinguished Service Award.

October 7-9, 2008

SAE 2008 Commercial Vehicle Engineering Exhibition, Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, Illinois

CAViDS is featured on the exhibition floor during the major annual engineering event in the commercial vehicle industry.  Dr. William Liou, CAViDS Director and John Bair, CAViDS Executive Director advocated the WMU faculty expertise in ground vehicles research, and the facility in testing and computer simulations in WMU’s engineering college.  They also engaged in technical discussion with conference attendees and networking.

In this event, CAViDS Consortium member companies’ first-line engineers, engineering managers at different levels will speak and chat with engineering students in the college and engineering-bound high schoolers about engineering and being an engineer in their respective companies in the global engineering environment. Exhibition and Displays. Refreshments and Freebies.

Program

Exhibit Session: 2:45PM-3:30PM
Plenary Session: 3:30PM-5:00PM.
Breakout Session (free format): 5:00PM-6:00PM

Locations

WMU College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Exhibit Session: Front Atrium and out front of the engineering building
Plenary Session: D109
Breakout Session: Front Atrium

The winner of the first CAViDS Consortium Distinguished Service Award is Dick Joslin of Commercial Vehicle Systems, Dana Corporation. Mr. Joslin was heavily involved with the consortium ever since the inception of the idea of forming an organization to help the Michigan industry and companies tap into the vehicle engineering resources at Western Michigan University. As the consortium began to take shape, Mr. Joslin participated whole-heartedly in meetings, discussions, and helped promote the birth of the consortium within Dana Corporation and without. He has dedicated his time and effort in the operation of the young consortium after it was launched in January 2007. The consortium has benefited significantly from the outstanding services Mr. Joslin has contributed.

From the left: Charles Vaillant of MANN+HUMMEL, USA; Tim Greene, Dean of CEAS; William Liou, Director of CAViDS; Dick Joslin of Dana Corporation; Dale Kwasniewski of Eaton Corporation; Paul Pollock, Executive Director of CAViDS, Ken Kacynski of L-3 Communication; Osama Abudayyeh, Associate Dean of CEAS.

For more information on the CAViDS Consortium Distinguished Service Award, click here