Advanced Diesel and Gasoline Powertrain

Emissions and Aftertreatment Technologies

Renewable Fuels and CO2 Reduction

Technology Assessment and Planning

Powertrain Expert Witness

Integrated System-Based Development Strategy

New and Emerging Technologies

R&D Leveraging and Partnership

Team and Core Competency Building

International Teaming and Cooperation

Nabil Hakim (Ph.D., Wayne State University, 1976) has held academic, technical and management posts for over 35 years. He has been active in the areas of advanced powertrain, energy, materials, tribology and bioengineering. As a technologist and executive manager, he has had responsibilities for development of new technologies, core competencies, technology planning, and management of global multi-faceted R&D teams.

He is currently a Senior Powertrain Technologist and a Principal of NabMag Technologies, LLC. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at West Virginia University. Most recently, he has been the Vice President of Technology and Planning for Aaqius & Aaqius, Inc.

Hakim served as Director − Delphi Innovation Center during 2003 − 2005, having the responsibility of Delphi′s Energy Sector. His global team covered advanced diesel and gasoline technologies, integrated systems and controls, emissions and aftertreatment, hybrid powertrain, fuel cells and reformers, energy storage, and engine thermo/chemical sensors. He also served as a member of the Delphi R&D Council. Accomplishments include a record power density for solid oxide fuel cells and demonstration of reformer-based Tier 2-Bin 5 emissions for light duty trucks.

From 1992 to 2003, Hakim served as Director of Engineering at Detroit Diesel. His assignments included advanced engineering, materials engineering, central chemical laboratories, engine fluids, and additional factory quality and metal working fluids tasks. His team is credited with numerous technical advancements. Examples include mass produced engine ceramic components, EGR technology, LHR strategies, US-based new automotive diesel engine technologies, virtual lab-based combustion research, advanced controls, and piezo-actuated heavy duty electronic unit injector.

Hakim joined Detroit Diesel in 1977 as a senior research engineer and covered a variety of technical and management assignments until named director in 1992. Technology areas included tribology, ceramics and structural analysis. He was also the PI on few projects including a project on the development of an all-ceramic HD cylinder components, electrohydraulic valve actuation, electronic CR fuel injection system, and vapor-phase tribology. Alternative fuels was another focus area of intensive R&D.

From 1967 to 1977, Hakim worked in the automotive and metal forming industries and then joined WSU where he was a research assistant, research associate, PI and instructor. He published extensively in the powertrain area and has over 15 publications on the biomechanics of the human spine. Hakim has many professional affiliations, was elected to the American Academy of Mechanics, and is inducted into Wayne State University Engineering Hall of Fame.