Dr. David E. Cole 博士

Dr. David E. Cole 博士

前美国汽车研究中心董事长

Auto Harvest 董事长

Chairman Emeritus

Center for Automotive Research

Chairman

Auto Harvest

David E. Cole 是位于美国密歇根州安阿博的汽车研究中心（CAR）前董事长，现任 Auto Harvest董事长。他曾任美国密歇根大学汽车运输研究室（OSAT）主任及密歇根大学工程教授。他对内燃机、汽车设计和汽车业的总体趋势有着广泛的研究。

Cole博士最近致力于北美汽车产业重组和全球化、技术、市场因素和人力资源需求趋势等战略问题的研究。他是Auto Harvest,的董事长，这是一家新成立的促进汽车产业知识产权输入输出的机构。他还曾任美国国家研究理事会能源工程分会的理事、美加自由贸易协定理事会理事及密歇根州战略经济投资和商务理事会成员。他还是担任着6家与汽车相关的公司的董事。Cole博士还曾是密歇根经济发展公司（MEDC）执委会和密歇根可再生能源委员会的成员。在2006年秋，他被任命为底特律复兴委员会“复兴之路”计划的联合主席。 他是密歇根大学能源研究理事会理事、机械工程外部咨询委员会委员及生物站咨询委员会委员。他还是电装（Denso）基金理事会理事，最近刚被任命为地区经济发展组织Ann Arbor Spark的业务发展委员会委员。Cole博士还曾任“汽车名人堂”主任、美国配套零部件供应商协会的会长。他还是希望学院理事会成员。

他积极参与美国汽车工程师学会的工作，曾担任两届理事。1986年2月，他被提名为美国汽车工程师学会院士。他也积极参与底特律工程学会的工作，在1990年被选为院士。在2000年，他荣获学会的最高奖——Horace H. Rackham奖。他还是制造工程师学会的会员，并在2009年当选为该学会院士。1993年，他荣获美国汽车经销商协会基金会的国际移动自由奖（International Freedom of Mobility Award）。1994年，Cole博士被《设计新闻》选为8个工程领袖之一，并荣获瑞典的“极星勋章”。他目前还担任《大众机械》杂志的编辑顾问委员会的顾问。

1998年秋，Cole博士被市场高管协会评为“年度营销教育家”。另外，由于他对汽车工业生态学的贡献，他还荣获了1998年的“Rene Dubos环境奖”，并于1999年获得法国“国家骑士勋章”。此外，他还荣获了密歇根大学颁发的2008年机械工程卓越校友奖。

Cole博士还积极参与了安阿博的5家不同的公司的创立。Cole博士对来自业界、劳工和政府方面的诸多客户进行技术和政策方面的咨询，就汽车方面的问题对不同组织进行过1000多场演讲。

Cole博士获得密歇根大学的机械工程学和数学学士、机械工程学硕士和博士学位。他还获得克莱瑞（Cleary）大学的荣誉博士。

David E. Cole is the Chairman Emeritus of the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Chairman of Auto Harvest.  He was formerly Director of the Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation (OSAT) at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute and an engineering professor at the University of Michigan.  He has worked extensively on internal combustion engines, vehicle design, and overall automotive industry trends.

Dr. Cole's recent research has focused on strategic issues related to the restructuring of the North American industry and trends in globalization, technology, market factors, and human resource requirements. He is chairman of Auto Harvest, a new organization being developed to facilitate the flow of intellectual property in and out of the auto industry. He was formerly a member of the Energy Engineering Board of the National Research Council, the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Pact Select Panel and the Michigan Strategic Economic Investment and Commercialization Board.   He is also director of six automotive related companies.  Dr. Cole was formerly a member of the Executive Committee of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and the Michigan Renewable Fuels Commission. He was named a co-chair of Detroit Renaissance’s “Road to Renaissance” Project in the fall of 2006.  At the University of Michigan he is a member of the Energy Research Council, Mechanical Engineering External Advisory Board and the Biological Station Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the Denso Foundation Board and recently was appointed to the Business Development Committee of Ann Arbor Spark.   Dr. Cole was formerly a director of the Automotive Hall of Fame and the Original Equipment Suppliers Association and a member of the Board of Trustees of Hope College.

He is active in SAE, including serving two terms on the Board of Directors.  In February 1986, he was named a fellow of SAE.  He is also active in the Engineering Society of Detroit and was elected to fellow status in 1990.  In 2000, he received the Engineering Society’s highest award, the Horace H. Rackham medal. He is also a member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and was elected to fellow grade in 2009.  In 1993, he received the National Automobile Dealers Association Foundation's International Freedom of Mobility Award.  In 1994, Design News selected Dr. Cole as one of eight engineering leaders, and he was also selected to receive Sweden's Order of the Polar Star.  He is currently a member of the editorial advisory board of Popular Mechanics.

In the fall of 1998, Dr. Cole was named as the Marketing Educator of the Year by the Society of Marketing Executives.  Additionally, he received the 1998 Rene Dubos Environmental Award for his contributions to the industrial ecology of the automobile and in 1999, Chevalier of the National Order of Merit from France.  In addition, he received the 2008 Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Michigan

Dr. Cole also has been actively involved in the start-up of five different Ann Arbor-based companies.  Dr. Cole's technical and policy consulting experience includes a variety of assignments for industry, labor, and government and he has spoken to more than 1000 different groups on automotive issues.

Dr. Cole received his B.S.M.E. and Mathematics, M.S.M.E. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and an honorary doctorate from Cleary University.