Walt W. Braithwaite, The Boeing Company, Chair

Marvin F. DeVries, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Vice Chair

Hadi A. Akeel, FANUC Robotics NA, Inc.

Mary A. Austin, Pratt and Whitney

Diane Bird, U.S. Department of Energy

Thomas Charlton, Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co.

James E. Costa, Sandia National Laboratories

Jose B. Cruz, Jr., Ohio State University

David Dornfeld, University of California, Berkeley

George J. Hess, The Ingersoll Milling Machine Company (retired)

Michael E. Kahn, KLA-Tencor Instruments

Richard L. Kegg, Milacron, Inc.

Wolfgang H. Sachse, Cornell University

Donald L. Sage, Lucent Technologies (retired)

Brian K. Seitz, BKSeitz & Associates/Intellectual Arbitrage Inc.

Janet K. Talbot, Baan, Inc.

Neculai C. Tutos, Dassault Systèmes of America

Submitted for the panel by its Chair, Walt W. Braithwaite, this assessment of the fiscal year 1999 activities of the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory is based on site visits by individual panel members, a formal meeting of the panel February 24–25, 1999, in Gaithersburg, Md., and documents provided by the laboratory.