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The 2004 winner of the SAE/InterRegs Standards & Regulations Award for Young Engineers is 34-year-old, Dr Bart P. Terburg, Global Regulations Manager & Senior Development Engineer at GE Consumer Products - Lighting in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Along with SAE President, Jack E Thompson, InterRegs' Dave Houston (left) presented the Award to Bart Terburg (centre), on 9th March during the annual Honors Convocation at the SAE World Congress in Detroit, Michigan.
Dr Terburg currently leads the automotive lighting regulatory program at GE Lighting, which includes managing their representation in global automotive lighting regulatory and standards committees. Along with activities related to regulations, he is also development engineer and safety leader of the automotive product line. His main expertise lies in the field of halogen and discharge light sources for road illumination devices. He has authored and collaborated on several scientific papers and technical presentations, and has been a main force in studies and research concerning the relation between the performance of blue coated automotive light sources and the impact on traffic safety, through the reduction of headlamp glare and colour separation. He has made key contributions to the development and validation of the bulb colour separation test, which distinguishes acceptable and unacceptable coated bulbs in terms of their light scatter, or glare.
Dr Terburg is an active contributor to the drafting of national and international vehicle lighting regulations. He participates regularly in domestic and European regulatory meetings. He is co-chairman of the Replaceable Bulb Task Force and vice-chairman of the International Lighting Standards Committee in the SAE Luigthing Committee. Internationally he is a member of the US delegation to the GTB (Groupe de Travail "Bruxelles 1952") and secretary of the GTB Working Group Light Sources.
Bart Terburg graduated Cum Laude from the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. After pursuing his undergraduate degree in engineering physics, he pursued his doctoral studies in physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Click here to view Dr Terburg's winning application for the 2004 award.