TABLE OF CONTENTS BY
JOHN T. BENEDICT Retired Standards Engineer and Consultant, Society of Automotive
Engineers
V. TERREY HAWTHORNE Vice President, Engineering and Technical Services, American Steel
Foundries
KEITH L. HAWTHORNE Senior Assistant Vice President, Transportation Technology Center,
Association of American Railroads
MICHAEL C. TRACY Captain, U.S. Navy
MICHAEL W. M. JENKINS Professor, Aerospace Design, Georgia Institute of Technology
SANFORD FLEETER Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director, Thermal Sciences and
Propulsion Center, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
AARON COHEN Retired Center Director, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, NASA and Zachry
Professor, Texas A & M University
G. DAVID BOUNDS Senior Engineer, PanEnergy Corp.
by John T. Benedict
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