WARRENDALE, Pa. – Peter Tenberge, professor at Chemnitz University of Technology, was honored with the SAE/Timken-Howard Simpson Automotive Transmission and Driveline Innovation Award during the SAE 2012 World Congress held in Detroit.
Established in 2007, this award recognizes an engineer from the automotive industry for outstanding contributions to the technology progress and dissemination in the area of automotive transmission and driveline. The honor highlights new ideas, concepts, innovations or applications that will assist in improving this technology.
The award honors Howard Simpson, an innovative engineer who invented and developed a revolutionary planetary gear set that constituted the basis for the Ford C4 and C5 transmission produced for more than 20 years starting in 1964, for the famous Chrysler Torqueflite transmission, that was introduced in 1956 and for several General Motors transmission models. The award also is testimony to Timken’s commitment to technical innovation and creativity.
In his current role, Dr. Tenberge serves as the chair of Machine Elements at Chemnitz University of Technology. Outside of developing new lessons and spearheading new research projects, he continues to initiate programs to develop new automatic transmissions, double clutch transmissions and hybrid transmissions. He has published more than 80 papers and is the inventor of more than 140 patent applications.
Tenberge studied Mechanical Engineering at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
