DATE
March 17, 2006

LOCATI0N
RONALD REAGAN BUILDING AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE CENTER
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC

Conference Location Map (pdf)

Conference: 1:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Reception: 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

DME Truck Display: 12:00-7:00 p.m.

About DME Trucks
Summary | Detailed Information (pdf)



HOST
Co-hosted by the Japan International Transport Institute and National Traffic Safety and Environment Laboratory

Japan International Tranport Institute
Catherine Gilbert
1819 L STREET, N.W. SUITE 1000
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036
PHONE:+1- 202-833-9763
FAX: +1-202-833-9769
jiti@japantransport.com
www.japantransport.com



Activities of our institute are made possible through the generous assistance of the Nippon Foundation.

  Andre Boehman
Associate Professor of Fuel Science and Materials Science and Engineering,Pennsylvania State University

 André Boehman is an Associate Professor of Fuel Science and Materials Science and Engineering in the Department of Energy & Geo-Environmental Engineering in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University, where he has taught courses on Energy, Fuels, Combustion and the Environment since 1994. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Dayton (1986) and an MS (1987) and PhD (1993) in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Molecular Physics Laboratory at SRI International, Menlo Park, CA. Prof. Boehman’s research interests are in alternative and reformulated fuels, combustion and pollution control. His present research activities are focused on alternative diesel fuels, diesel combustion and diesel exhaust aftertreatment.

He is presently on the Editorial Board of Fuel Processing Technology and holds executive positions with the American Chemical Society Division of Fuel Chemistry and with the International DME Association. He has received the 1999 Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Dayton School of Engineering, the 1999 Matthew and Anne Wilson Award for Outstanding Teaching from the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and the Philip L. Walker Jr. Faculty Fellowship in Materials Science and Engineering, from 1995-97. He also received the 1986 Charles T. Main Bronze Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. His professional activities include active membership in the American Chemical Society, the Society of Automotive Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, where he has organized various technical sessions and symposia.

He is also a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Pennsylvania. He has supervised seventeen MS theses and five doctoral theses at Penn State and he has published more than 30 refereed papers in technical journals. At the Penn State Energy Institute, Prof. Boehman manages the Diesel Combustion and Emissions Laboratory.