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the Selective Service System Exceptional Service Medal. While at GE Aviation, he worked on the successful design and test of a
prototype thrust vectoring and reversing exhaust nozzle for the F22
Division Description: IIP serves the entire National Science Foundation by Raptor. Following that, he was the fan rotor design manager for the first
fostering partnerships to advance technological innovation and plays an generation GE90 engine, which was the first commercial engine ever
important role in the public-private innovation partnership enterprise. IIP certified with composite fan blades.
seeks to successfully invest in science and engineering research across all
disciplines that have the potential for high impact in meeting national and Szpunar left GE in 1996 to pursue opportunities in new product develop-
societal needs. To achieve this goal, IIP focuses on leveraging federal, small ment, manufacturing, inspection, quality systems, component testing,
business, industrial, university, state and community college resources. technical sales, technical support, and FAA regulatory compliance with
another company in the commercial aviation parts and repairs business.

In 2010, Szpunar rejoined GE as team leader of advanced turbomachinery
INVITED INDUSTRY PRESENTATION for their Oil and Gas Business and took his current position in drilling and
1:15pm–2:00pm production advanced technology in 2011. Szpunar and his team are
Exhibit Hall, Grand Ballroom Hilton of the Americas
responsible for developing and executing technology road maps in the
Presentation Title: A Systems Approach to Mechanical Design in O&G drilling and production space.
Egidio (Ed) Marotta

Systems Analysis & Modeling Manager, Systems NSF RESEARCH PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
Engineering and Advanced Technology (SEAT) Team 3:00pm–5:30pm
381AB, Convention Center
GE Oil & Gas
George Hazelrigg
Presenter Biography: Egidio (Ed) Marotta is the systems analysis and Deputy Division Director
modeling manager of the Systems Engineering and Advanced Technology Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)
(SEAT) Team. He works across GE Oil & Gas to develop strategic road Directorate for Engineering
maps for advanced systems simulation and modeling. He is also an National Science Foundation
adjunct professor and teaches in the Mechanical Engineering Depart-
Description: This workshop will cover fundamentals of formulating and
ment’s Subsea Engineering Program at the University of Houston.
funding an academic research project. It will focus largely on framing your
Marotta facilitates global modeling collaboration to develop best practices research project and stating your research plan. The workshop will also
and synergies among modeling efforts at GE Research Centers and GE touch upon such important topics as ethics and Federal expectations for
O&G. In addition, he develops SEAT’s ability to model and conduct the ethical conduct of research.
analysis of larger, multidisciplinary, “System of Systems” (SoS) platforms.
Biography: George Hazelrigg enjoyed designing and building things
Prior to his present assignment, Marotta managed the Multiphysics
when he was young, so he decided to go to college to study engineering.
Simulation Group in the Advanced Technology Organization. Marotta has
He obtained a BS in mechanical engineering from Newark College of Engi-
led industry/academic research in the development of models for thermal
neering (now New Jersey Institute of Technology) and went to work for
contact research for satellite systems, optimization of heat exchanger
Curtiss-Wright. There, he found that his education had utterly destroyed
performance for textured surfaces, development of analytical models and
his abilities to do engineering design. So he felt it necessary to get a
experimental investigations of thermophysical properties of materials, and
master’s degree. He completed an MS in mechanical engineering, also
thermal modeling of aerospace and military avionics (NASA).
from NCE, but still hadn’t regained his design abilities. While getting his
Ed Marotta achieved his BS in chemistry from the State University of New MS, however, he did some teaching and liked it. So he figured that, if he
York at Albany, graduate studies in chemical engineering at SUNY at couldn’t do design, the next best thing would be to teach it. Five years
Buffalo, and his MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M later, he had obtained MA, MSE, and PhD degrees in aerospace engineer-
University. ing from Princeton University. Now, in addition to not knowing how to do
design, he couldn’t teach it either. For the next 25 years, he roamed
Stephen J. Szpunar industry and academe in an attempt to understand the theory of engineer-
ing design, including time spent at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, General
Advanced Mechanical and Mechatronics System Dynamics, Princeton University and a consulting firm of which he was a
Design Manager co-founder. He also spent a year in Korea helping to found the Systems
Engineering Department of Ajou University. He joined the National
GE Oil & Gas
Science Foundation in 1982 and, in 1996, became program director for the
Presenter Biography: Szpunar received his BS in mechanical engineering Engineering Design program where, for eight years, he provided support
magna cum laude from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1979. to others in the field. In January, 1996, he did a stint as station science
Following graduation, he joined GE Aviation in Cincinnati. He received his leader of the U.S. South Pole station. In 2004, he became program
28 director for the Manufacturing Machines and Equipment program and,
MS in aerospace engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1982
while working at GE with a focus on propulsion and structures. since the formation of the CMMI Division, he has been deputy division