2012 Contest Judges

Michael Akins
Senior Consultant
WorleyParsons
Reading, PA
Malath Arar
Senior Engineer
General Electric
Schenectady, NY
Dean Baker
Doctor
Physics for Industry
Auckland, New Zealand
Nate Bernklau
Design Engineer
John Deere
Davenport, IA
Douglas Bradley
Composite Materials Specialist
General Dynamics
Sterling Heights, MI
Stuart Brown
Managing Principal
Veryst Engineering
Needham, MA
Kyle Bunch
Research and Development Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, WA
Jeff Crompton
Principal
AltaSim Technologies
Columbus, OH
Juergen Denker
Senior Research Engineer
TK Polysius
Beckum, Germany
Mitch Finn
Engineering Manager
Medtronic
Fridley, MN
Venkat Gaddam
Electrical Engineer
Medtronic Neurological
Minneapolis, MN
Alan Goelzer
Group Manager
Jacobs Consultancy
Durham, NH
David Jorde
Senior Development Design Engineer
Solar Turbines Inc.
San Diego, CA
Pankaj Kalore
Engineer
Siemens
Buffalo Grove, IL
James D. Lane
Automation Engineer
BP
Durango, CO
James Lauer
Lean 6 Sigma Masters Black Belt
Caterpillar
Morton, IL
Matthijs Klomp
Doctor
eAAM Driveline Systems
Trollhattan, Sweden
Nora McGuiness
Global Marketing & Communications
Nordson EFD
East Providence, RI
Scott Moore
Senior Staff Technologist
Alliant Techsystems
Anoka, MN
Stephen Osborne
Senior Electrical Engineer
Stanley Black & Decker
Towson, MD
Sergio Pacheco
Program Manager
Freescale
Tempe, AZ
Anilkumar Pandit
Senior Consulting Engineer
GE Energy
Bangalore, India
Pramod Patil
Assisted General Manager
Suzlon Energy Ltd.
Pune, India
Samuel R. Phillips
Consulting Engineer
Samuel R. Phillips Consulting
Grass Valley, CA
Antonio Quintieri
Senior Engineer
Procter & Gamble
Stombeck Bever, Belgium
Carlos E. Ramirez Valenzuela
Researcher
Institute De Investigaciones Electricas
Cuernavaca, Mexico
Kiran Reddy
Senior Research Scientist
Kimberly Clark Corp.
Roswell, GA
Peter Seiler
Principal Materials Engineer
Medtronic
Mount View, MN
Susan Stanton
Principal
SBCI
Sunbury, OH
Darren Stevenson
Researcher
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
Glenn Strahs
Technology Manager
U.S. Department of Energy
Washington, DC
David Strei
Principal Engineer
Rosemount Inc.
Chanhassen, MN
Paul Schwendinger
Program Manager
Honeywell
Golden Valley, MN
Thomas J. Steinbrunner
Electronics Engineer
National Air and Space Intelligence Center
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
Vladimir Theodorof
Engineering Specialist
Caterpillar
Dunalp, IL
Michael Vidal
Director of Quality
Nordson EFD
East Providence, RI
Rich White
Mechanical R&D Engineer
Agilent Technologies
Wilmington, DE
Brandon L. Winslow
Clinical Engineer
Providence Health and Services
Portland, OR
Jian Zhang
Principal Systems Informatics Analyst
Amgen
Thousand Oaks, CA