John C. Wall to Receive the ASME Soichiro Honda Medal

NEW YORK, November 6, 2013 — John C. Wall, Sc.D., a resident of Columbus, Ind., and vice president and chief technical officer of Cummins Inc., will be honored by ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers). He is being recognized for outstanding leadership in the research, design, development and production of low-emission, fuel-efficient diesel engines, reflected extensively in commercial products; and for serving as a resource for environmental policy development within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board. He will receive the Society's Soichiro Honda Medal.

The medal, established in 1983, recognizes an individual for an outstanding achievement or a series of significant engineering contributions in developing improvements in the field of personal transportation. The award will be presented to Dr. Wall during ASME's 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in San Diego, Nov. 15 through 21.

Wall was named to his current position in March 2000 and today leads an international technical organization with over 6,000 engineers in 17 major technical centers around the world, including the U.S., U.K., India, China and Brazil.

Since joining Cummins in 1986, Wall has held positions in emissions research, advanced product development and technology planning. He has championed the application of innovative technologies and processes, and has remained directly involved in the most critical technology programs for low emissions, powertrain efficiency and alternative fuels. Wall contributes domestically and internationally in the areas of diesel engine emission controls and environmental policy.

In 2002, Cummins was the first company to introduce cooled exhaust gas recirculation technology on commercial heavy-duty diesels. In 2007, Cummins was first to introduce NOx adsorber technology for heavy-duty diesels and first to certify to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 2010 Emission Standards with both diesel and natural gas products, three years ahead of the regulatory schedule. Cummins' 2013 engines met the first EPA Greenhouse Gas Standards one year ahead of the regulatory schedule.

Wall has served on the EPA Mobile Sources Technical Review Subcommittee, led EPA work groups on low sulfur diesel fuels and technology readiness, and has served as an industry advisor to the California Air Resources Board.

Before joining Cummins, Wall worked in fuels and lubricants research at Chevron Research Co. (Richmond, Calif.). His research team at Chevron was the first to quantify the contribution of fuel sulfur to diesel particulate emissions.

An ASME member, Wall served as honorary chair for the 2006 ASME–Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society's International Mechanical Engineering Education Conference. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of SAE International.

Wall earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering (honors program) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 1975. He received a Cummins fellowship in 1976 and earned his Sc.D. in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1978.

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