WRP Volunteers and Staff

Waste Reduction Partners is uniquely staffed with retired engineers, scientists, and staff who share their expertise with businesses and communities across North Carolina. As a multidisciplinary team of mechanical, electrical, civil, environmental, and chemical engineers, scientists, and architects, they have had distinguished careers in a variety of industries, such as automotive, food, textile, utility, chemical, paper, construction, aerospace, electronics, and government. This remarkable group has more than 2,200 years of cumulative experience.

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Assessors’ names starting with L

Leopold, Robert

Leopold, Robert

Work Experience:

45 years

Work History:

Worked primarily as commercial vehicle engineer, first for Mercedes-Benz of North America, then 30 years with Allison Transmission (part of General Motors for most of my tenure.)

Education:

BS in Engineering Science (Physics) New Jersey Institute of Technology

Keywords:

Commercial Vehicle Engineering, Fuel efficiency and emissions
Lowles, Dave

Lowles, Dave

Work Experience:

40 years

Work History:

20+ years with Parker Hannifin in various engineering, sales, manufacturing and product planning roles; Dover Corp, OPW Fueling Components Division, Vice President. Fifteen years in the semiconductor equipment industry in Silicon Valley, with engineering, marketing and strategic management responsibility.

President, Semi-Gas Systems at the time, the worlds largest supplier of specialty gas delivery equipment to the chip industry; Managing Director, Engineered Solutions, a design/built contractor to the primary chip fabricating OEMs.

Education:

BSME Purdue 1961;MBA Case Western Reserve University

Keywords:

Applications engineering, Energy efficiency, Mechanical engineering, New business startups, Product development, Reuse, Sales and operations, Solid waste reduction, Strategic planning

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