Tech Topics - Summer 2008 - (Page 27) Burdell&Friends PAUL LOMANGINO IS PLUGGED IN TO NEXT GENERATION OF CARS STANLEY LEARY By Gary Goettling D riving a Tesla Roadster is almost like sailing. It produces the same windin-your-hair rush, the same exhilarating feeling of being in absolute control of some silent, omnipotent force. “It’s the most fun car I’ve ever driven,” said Paul Lomangino, ME 90, MS ME 92, PhD ME 95. The Palo Alto, Calif., resident knows a thing or two about fun and driving. As a student he was involved with Georgia Tech Motor Sports, which designs, builds and races formula cars in Society of Automotive Engineers competition against other universities. Hailed as an electric dream, the Tesla Roadster, the first production models of which began rolling off the assembly line earlier this year, is the world’s first highperformance, all-electric sports car. It takes its name from famed electrical pioneer Nikola Tesla. For the past year and a half, Lomangino has worked as the computeraided design product data management engineering manager for the Roadster’s manufacturer, Tesla Motors, headquartered in the Silicon Valley city of San Carlos, Calif. “I’m responsible for the engineering tools that we use at Tesla, like the CAD design and the data management tools,” said Lomangino, whose other duties include data management, data interchange with suppliers and work on transmission design and manufacturing for new models under development. TECHTOPICS | SUMMER 2008 27
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