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Kurt M. Marshek, Consulting Engineer and Professor, B.S., M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin--Madison; Ph. D., The Ohio State University, Columbus; Harry L. Kent Endowed Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin; Registered Professional Engineer, Texas, and Ohio. Dr. Marshek became an Assistant Professor at The University of Connecticut in 1971, then accepted a position at the University of Houston in 1975 as an Associate Professor. In 1981, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin where he specializes in mechanical design and accident reconstruction. He has extensive industrial experience with such companies as Falk, Eaton, Norton, and Western Electric.

Dr. Marshek has a particularly strong interest and background in vehicle component design and analysis. He has supervised the design and construction of numerous vehicles including all-terrain, electric, race, hovercraft, and airships. In 1975, he worked with a team of engineers and scientists at NASA -- Johnson Space Center on the design of an airship cargo vehicle.

Dr. Marshek's current research efforts center on: (1) estimating vehicular ride quality, (2) design of a high speed ground corridor between Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, (3) determining vehicle speed from tire yaw marks, and (4) studying vehicle dynamics utilizing remotely controlled scale models. Some of his past research efforts have ranged from developing vehicle anti theft systems to supervising work on pre- and post-impact phase modeling of vehicular collisions to experimental analysis of tire marks generated during vehicle control limit maneuvers. He has reconstructed vehicle accidents since 1968.

In the mechanical design area, Dr. Marshek employed finite element analysis, friction, wear and lubrication sciences to develop improved products for the industrial market place. He supervised numerous engineers, students, and technicians during the course of funded development work. He has written more than 150 publications of a technical nature, and authored required textbooks, Design of Machine and Structural Parts, and Fundamentals of Machine Component Design both published by John Wiley and Sons.

Dr. Marshek hails from a long line of automotive engineers. His grandfather worked in the truck building business and obtained one of the first patents on truck universal joints. His father designed state-of-the-art vehicles and received a patent for his part in the design of the Rollagon, a soft tire all-terrain vehicle. Dr. Marshek, himself an inventor, has been active in vehicle design and in the Society of Automotive Engineers. He was consecutively Treasurer, Secretary, and Vice-Chairman of the Texas Gulf Coast Section of the Society of Automotive Engineers. In 1973, he was awarded the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Award for his contributions to research, teaching and student development.

Dr. Marshek is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and he is listed in Who's Who in Engineering; Who's Who in Technology Today; International Who's Who in Engineering; American Men and Women of Science; and Who's Who in the South and the Southwest. In 1970 he was nominated for the Annual Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching at the Ohio State University; in l973, he was awarded the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Award for his contributions to research, teaching and student development; in 1980, he was named Outstanding Teacher, Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston; in 1985, he received the Halliburton Education Foundation, Award of Excellence, in recognition of outstanding achievement and professionalism in education, research, and service to students as well as The University of Texas at Austin, College of Engineering, Faculty Leadership Award. In 1988, he received the ASEE Fred Merryfield Award for excellent teaching in engineering design.

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