WARRENDALE, Pa., Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SAE International's general membership has elected officers and directors to its Board of Directors.

Officers include:

    --  President: Donald Hillebrand, Director of Argonne National Laboratory's
        Energy Systems Division
    --  2013-2015 Vice President Automotive: Jeff Hemphill, Chief Technical
        Officer of the Schaeffler Group in North America

2013-2015 Directors include:

    --  Paul "Scooter" Brothers, Chief Operating Officer of COMP Cams, Inc.
    --  Arun Jaura, Vice President and Head of Eaton India Engineering Center,
        Eaton Technologies Pvt
    --  Louis Kratz, Vice President, Logistics and Sustainment of Lockheed
        Martin
    --  Patrick Leteinturier, Senior Principal Automotive Systems of Infineon
        Technologies AG

Officers and Directors begin their terms in January 2013.

SAE International is a global association of more than 133,000 engineers and related technical experts in the aerospace, automotive and commercial-vehicle industries. SAE International's core competencies are life-long learning and voluntary consensus standards development. SAE International's charitable arm is the SAE Foundation, which supports many programs, including A World In Motion® and the Collegiate Design Series.

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Contact: Shawn Andreassi, SAE International, at pr@sae.org [2] or 1-724-772-8522.

SOURCE SAE International