2021 Contest Judges

Kevin Alderman

Heat Treat Engineer

Progress Rail
Winston-Salem NC
USA

Malath Arar

Staff Engineer

General Electric Company
Lynn MA
USA

Avi Bhugra

Head of Product Quality

Google
San Jose CA
USA

Dean Barker

Director

Physics for Industry
Es Castell Islas Baleares
Spain

Richard Berger

Program Lead Aero-Thermal CAE - Full Size Truck

General Motors Corp.
Warren MI
USA

Nate Bernklau

Drive Systems Design Engineer

Bell Textron Inc.
Keller TX
USA

Gregory Blackwell

Principal Scientist II

Abbott Laboratories
Irving TX
USA

Joseph Bogusky

Staff Mechanical Engineer

Intuitive Surgical
Sunnyvale CA
USA

Sabin Carpiuc

Senior Physical Modeling Engineer

The MathWorks
Cambridge
UK

Federico Cindolo

Director of Research

INFN, Bologna, Italy & CERN
Geneva
Switzerland

Jeff Crompton

Principal

AltaSim Technologies
Columbus OH
USA

Michael Cukier

Principal Engineer, Advanced Manufacturing

Whirlpool Corporation
Benton Harbor MI
USA

Fernando da Mota Lopes

Mechanical Engineer

UFABC
Sao Paulo
Brazil

Adrian Draghici

R&D Manager

Newell Brands
Huntersville NC
USA

David Ferguson

Global Technology Leader

Duracell, Inc.
LaGrange GA
USA

Jon Fifield

Chief Engineer

Astronics AES
Kirkland WA
USA

Mitch Finne

Sr. Engineering Manager

Medtronic
Plymouth MN
USA

Inmaculada Galvez

Supply Chain Quality Manager

Industria de Turbo Propulsores, ITP Aero, SAU
Zamudio Basque Country
Spain

Brian Gleason

Chief Engineer

Southwest Airlines
Dallas TX
USA

Bhaskar Gopalanarayanan

Senior Staff Engineer

Lexmark International Inc
Lexington KY
USA

Jim Hathaway

Manager, Advanced Technologies Programs

Northrop Grumman Aerospace
Redondo Beach CA
USA

Jesus Hernandez

Functional Validation Manager

Intel Tecnologia de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
Zapopan Jalisco
Mexico

Felipe Herrero

Sr. Process Development Manager

Boston Scientific
La Aurora Heredia
Costa Rica

Robert Holzhauer

Electrical Cost Engineer

FCA
Northville MI
USA

Dave Hosey

Engineering Manager

Midmark Corp.
Versailles OH
USA

Kevin Houser

Director, IP Strategy

Ethicon
Springboro OH
USA

Paolo Imperia

Sample Environments Group Leader

ANSTO
Lucas Heights NSW
Australia

Vivek Jain

Lead Expert

Robert Bosch LLC
Sunnyvale CA
USA

Frank Joa

Senior Scientist

Procter & Gamble
Mason OH
USA

David Jorde

Development Consultant

Jorde
Fallbrook CA
USA

Tomasz Kawala

Technical Specialist, Electronics Design

Sensoteq
Belfast
UK

Wonoh Kim

Principal Software Engineer

Videojet Technologies Inc.
Buford GA
USA

Bharath Konda

Research Engineer

ArcelorMittal
East Chicago IN
USA

Patrick Krueger

Manager - Manufacturing Engineering

Airbus Operations GmbH
Hamburg
Germany

Deepak Kulkarni

 

Horiba India Ltd
Pune
India

James Ladtkow

Director, Advanced Technologies and Materials

Terumo BCT
Lakewood CO
USA

Christopher Lewis

Senior Staff Product Manager

GE Healthcare
Brookfield WI
USA

Joseph Lipman

Director of Device Development

Hospital for Special Surgery
New York NY
USA

Jair Lizarazo-adarme

Research Engineer & Adjunct Faculty

The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa AL
USA

Jeff Luttrell

Staff Engineer

Bell Textron
Fort Worth TX
USA

Aaron McPhee

Engineering Manager

Graphic Packaging International
Augusta GA
USA

Jose Guadalupe Mercado Rojas

 

Tecnológico de Monterrey/ITESM
Zapopan Jalisco
Mexico

James Miller

Director of Engineering

DAYCO
Roseville MI
USA

Robert Mink

Sr Powertrain Engineer

Volkswagen Group of America
Oxnard CA
USA

Scott Moore

Chief Engineer

Vista Outdoor
Anoka MN
USA

Kevin Moore

Sr.Principal Engineer

Barrios Technology
Houston TX
USA

Arunachalam Nagarajan

Engineering Senior Manager

Whirlpool Of India Ltd., Global Technology & Engineering Center
Pune
India

Stephen Osborne

Director of Engineering

RAB Lighting
Northvale NJ
USA

Anilkumar Pandit

Senior Consulting Engineer

ex. GE Industrial Solutions
Bangalore
India

Anthony Panos

Professor

University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics
Iowa City IA
USA

Joon Chul Park

Part Leader/Senior Researcher

Hyundai Motor Company
Hwaseong-si Gyeonggi-do
South Korea

Jay Paster

Electronics Engineer

Dept of Defense, Boeing (Retired)
Wynnewood PA
USA

Marek Piechocinski

MEMS Design Engineer

BAE Systems
Edinburgh
UK

Peter Piechocniski

Manager Electrical Application

Clever Devices
Woodbury NY
USA

Ron Pietrowski

Steam Engineering Manager

Consolidated Edison Co. of NY
New York NY
USA

Jeffery Puschell

Principal Engineering Fellow

Raytheon
El Segundo CA
USA

Antonio Quintieri

Principal Engineer

Procter & Gamble
Flanders
Belgium

John Radke

Mgr. Integrated Technologies Product Support

John Deere
Cedar Falls IA
USA

Fayaz Rasheed

R&D Staff

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge TN
USA

Alex Selvarathinam

LM Fellow

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Fort Worth TX
USA

Gary Sera

Director Emiritus

TEEX
College Station TX
USA

Steve Stark

CEO/Creator

Animated Trivia
Plymouth MN
USA

Brian Stewart

Chief Engineer

NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton VA
USA

Mike Stokes

Principal Design Engineer

Ethicon Endo-Surgery
Cincinnati OH
USA

Samson Stoll

Systems Engineer

The Boeing Company
Oklahoma City OK
USA

Michael Trulock

Executive Vice President

BroadWave Technologies Inc.
Greenwood IN
USA

Adnan Turkey

Senior Professor, Engineering

DeVry University
New York NY
USA

Torbjorn Virdung

Technical Expert, Complete Vehicle CFD

Volvo Car Corporation
Gothenburg
Sweden

William Wells

R&D Engineer

Savannah River National Laboratory
Aiken SC
USA

Rich Wells

Assistant Professor

Harding University
Searcy AR
USA

Puck Yan

Principal Professional Staff

Johns Hopkins University
Laural MD
USA

Brad Yearous

Principal Engineer

Plantronics Inc., (Poly)
Santa Cruz CA
USA