Advisory Committee
Mr. Norman Augustine MAE *57, *59 is the retired chairman and chief executive officer of the Lockheed Martin Corporation, the nation’s largest defense contractor, and a former under secretary of the Army.
Dr. Jean-Luc Boulnois *75 is President and Chief Executive Officer of Microline Pentax, a medical device company specializing in high technology instrumentation for Minimally Invasive Surgery.
Professor Earl H. Dowell, Advisory Committee Chair, is at Duke University with principal teaching interest and research activity in the field of aeroelasticity.
Dr. Patricia Falcone *74 is Senior Manager for Systems Analysis and Engineering at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA.
Dr. Eli Harari *73 is a founder of SanDisk Corporation and has been its president and CEO since its inception in 1988.
Prof. Hans Hornung, Professor Emeritus, Caltech, received his bachelor (1960) and master (1962) degrees from the University of Melbourne and his Ph. D. degree (1965) in Aeronautics from Imperial College, London.
Dr. Steven L. Lerner *81 is senior vice president and chief technology officer of Praxair, Inc..
Paul Maeder *75 is a co-Founder and Managing General Partner of Highland Capital Partners, a major venture capital firm.
James Morris *71 owns a consulting business, J2 Ventures. He retired as Vice president, Engineering and Manufacturing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes at the end of 2006.
Dr. Robert Sawyer *66, Class of 1935 Professor of Energy Emeritus at UC Berkeley. During his forty-one-year career at Berkeley as a professor of mechanical engineering, Dr. Sawyer’s teaching and research included rocket propulsion, energy conversion, combustion, air pollution, and regulatory policy.