Technical Committee for Engines and Powertrains

Mission & Organization
Facilitating international contacts and fostering cooperation in the area of engines and powertrains between researchers and engineers working at universities, research centers, and industrial companies, to bring theory and practice closer together.
Promoting the exchange of information on the topics related to engines and powertrains.
Establishing cooperation with those IFToMM Technical Committees and Permanent Commissions who are already active in the topics related to engines and powertrains or who would like to be involved.
Starting a dialog with professional organizations and engineering societies having engine and powertrain divisions, seeking bilaterally beneficial cooperation.
Participating in IFToMM congresses, conferences, symposiums, and other events and activities.
Organizing IFToMM sponsored specialized conferences, workshops, and other events on engines and powertrains, also in cooperation with other Technical Committees.
Publishing in IFToMM-affiliated journals and book series, and also review them.
Contributing to the improvement of the existing industrial norms, rules, requirements, standards, and procedures related to engines and powertrains, and the development of new ones.
Leadership
Function | Name | Affiliation |
Chair |
Dr. Tigran Parikyan
tigran.parikyan@avl.com |
AVL List GmbH, Advanced Simulation Technologies
Graz, AUSTRIA |
Deputy chair |
Prof. José Ramón Serrano
jrserran@mot.upv.es |
CMT-Motores Térmicos, Universitat Politècnica de València
Valencia, SPAIN |
Members
MO
|
Name | Affiliation |
*Observer | Prof. Aly El-Shafei |
Cairo University & RITEC, Egypt |
*Observer |
Dr. Andrei Lipatnikov |
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden |
Brazil | Dr.-Ing. Alexandre Schalch Mendes |
University of Campinas |
China-Beijing | Prof. Chao Zhang |
Shanghai University & Zhejiang Changsheng Sliding Bearing Co. Ltd. |
Croatia | Prof. Darko Kozarac |
University of Zagreb |
Czech Republic | Dr. Pavel Novotný |
Brno University of Technology |
Finland | Dr. Timo Holopainen |
ABB Helsinki |
France | Prof. Didier Rémond |
INSA Lyon |
Germany | Dr. Mike Kuznetsov |
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
Greece | Prof. Stamatis Kalligeros |
Hellenic Naval Academy |
India | Prof. Avinash Kumar Agarwal |
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
Italy | Prof. Enrico Galvagno |
Politecnico di Torino |
Russia | Prof. Sergey Frolov |
Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
Slovenia | Prof. Dr. Tomaz Katrasnik |
University of Ljubljana |
Switzerland | Dipl.-Ing. Ilias Papadimitriou |
GF Casting Solutions AG |
UK |
Prof. Stephanos Theodossiades |
Loughborough University |
USA | Dr. Madhu Raghavan |
General Motors R&D Center |
USA | Dr. Charbel Mansour | Argonne National Laboratory |
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