Patrick
Usoro
2008 Walston Chubb Award for Innovation
Patrick Usoro is a Technical Fellow at the General Motors R&D Center in Warren,
Michigan. He joined GM R&D in 1985 and has led technical innovations in power
train dynamics and control, transmission mechanism synthesis, advanced hybrid
systems, mechatronics, and mechamatronics - a GM key strategic technology area
that he initiated. His focus is on innovative technologies to enhance function,
performance, efficiency and cost of future vehicle systems. He holds more than
160 U.S. patents and has published more than 50 technical papers and reports.
Many of his innovations have been implemented on GM products and have earned him
the GM R&D Master Inventor Platinum Award, Campbell Award for Outstanding
Contributions to Science and McCuen Special Achievement Awards for Extraordinary
Technical Accomplishments. His other honors include the GM Chairman's
Best-of-the-Best Honors award for development of an innovative magneto-rheological
fluid fan drive; and GM "Boss" Kettering top technical honor awards for an
active driveline damping system and for pioneering work in mechanisms synthesis
which led to the generation of novel multi-speed transmissions, including GM's
six-speed front-wheel-drive automatic transmission that offers significant cost
and vehicle fuel economy benefits. In 1996 he was recognized as the U.S. Black
Engineer of the Year for outstanding technical contributions. Usoro is a member
of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Society of Automotive Engineers and
Sigma Xi. He served as chairman of the ASME Energy Systems Committee and as
associate editor of the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurements and
Control. He was appointed to the National Science Foundation Committee of
Visitors for the Dynamic Systems and Control program. Since 2004 he has served
as a commissioner of the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, the body
that accredits engineering programs in universities across the U.S. and
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