ENGINEERING EVENTS APRIL 18-20, 2023 DETROIT TM SAE Fellow puts together prestigious WCX panels Only someone of Bert Martin's long and deep history with SAE International could put together two WCX 2023 panel sessions featuring three former SAE Presidents: Jeff Hemphill (2021), Don Hillebrand (2013), and Mircea Gradu (2018). The senior manager (retired) WCX panel session organizer Bert Martin is an SAE Fellow (class of 2012) who has been involved with SAE for more than 50 years. 24 April 2023 of Advanced Transmission Engineering at Chrysler is an SAE Fellow (2012). Martin has been participating in SAE activities for over 50 years " in a number of facets, including authoring the initial standard on using the SAE #2 Machine for friction coefficient determination of automatic transmission clutch disk material. " He also was principal author of six SAE papers on pioneering automatic production transmissions designed, developed, and manufactured by Chrysler Corp. He was a principal inventor on more than 30 patents related to automatic transmissions. Martin has been a member of the SAE Transmission and Driveline Committee, now with the updated name Electrified and UPDATE Bert Martin