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Sae iS firST foreigN eNTerPriSe MeMber of ShaNghai federaTioN of eCoNoMiC
orgaNizaTioNS
SAE International's China Office has become the first foreign
enterprise member of the Shanghai Federation of Economic
Organizations (SFEO), which includes 184 Shanghai industrial
associations and 170 member enterprises.
On February 19th, Gary Schkade, General Manager of SAE
International's China Office met with Chen Zhenhao, Vice
President of SFEO. They discussed further cooperation and
exchanges for better interaction with the automotive, aerospace

and transportation industries in Shanghai. The SFEO hopes to
help the SAE International China Office establish communication
channels to Shanghai Municipal Government.
"SAE International welcomes this tremendous opportunity to join
SFEO," Schkade said. "We look forward to working with local
enterprises and helping them to be more successful in terms of
standards, technical conferences and training, technology and
business exchange."

Sae STaNdardS oN CraSh TeST duMMieS aCkNowledged by NhTSa
The work of SAE's standards development committees was
acknowledged in late 2013 in the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration's (NHTSA) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
(NPRM) document "Anthropomorphic Test Devices: Q3s-3-YearOld Child Side Impact Test Dummy, Incorporation by Reference."
The NHTSA NPRM acknowledged SAE's work in developing the
methods used to scale biomechanical response corridors from
the mid-size adult male to the three-year-old child dummy.
"SAE J211-1: Instrumentation for Impact Test - Part 1 - Electronic
Instrumentation" is referenced in the NHTSA document. A
revised version of this standard was issued by the Safety Test
Instrumentation Standards Committee in March.
NHTSA will soon be issuing a proposal to amend Federal Motor
Vehicle Safety Standard No. 212, "Child Restraint Systems" to

adopt side impact protection requirements for child restraints.
The agency plans to use the Q3 dummy to test child restraint
systems to new side impact performance requirements.
annette irwin, GM Technical Fellow and Co-chair of the Sae
occupant Protection and biomechanics Steering Committee
and Chair of the Sae dummy Testing and equipment
Committee, explained that, after the development of the Hybrid
III Male Crash Test Dummy by GM, Sae's human biomechanics
and Simulation Standards Committee (plus Task Forces under
that committee) undertook work to scale other dummies of
different sizes. Dummies of average children of different ages
were made in order to evaluate, for example, that the chest of the
dummy responds correctly during tests. This important scaling
work is what was acknowledged by NHTSA.

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