The General Manager of D&D Engineering
Z. M. (Joe) Lewalski, PE (Mechanical)

Education: B.S. and M.S., Aeronautical Engineering, Technical University of Warsaw, Poland.

Specialization: Passenger transportation technology and management; management of major transit development projects; design and manufacture of passenger transportation equipment in the Unjited States., Canada, and Europe.

Professional Affiliations: Licensed Professional Engineer (Mechanical) in Nevada and California, and in Ontario, Canada. Member, Society of Automotive Engineers

Work History: Since 1984, Mr. Lewalski has operated his own consulting company, D&D Engineering (D&DE).

Among other projects, D&DE has provided engineering support to the following procurement programs:
Breda subway rapid transit cars for Los Angeles;
Linke-Hoffman-Busch cars for the BART in San Francisco;
Breda LRVs for the MUNI in San Francisco;
Siemens LRVs for Saint Louis and Los Angeles;
Kinki Sharyo LRVs for the New Jersey Transit;
CAF LRVs for the Sacramento Regional Transit;
Nippon Sharyo self-propelled commuter cars for the Northern Indiana Commuter Service District (NICTD);
Tokyu Car and Kawasaki bi-level commuter cars for the Long Island Rail Road;l and
Morrison Knudsen bi-level intercity cars forthe DOT in California.
From 1980 to 1983, Mr. Lewalski worked with the Urban Transportation Development Corporation (UTDC) in Canada, first as the Head Mechanical Engineer for the R&D division and then as Director of Vehicle Engineering at the Metro Canada UTDC's carbuilding branch.

While with R&D, Mr. Lewalski was also theProgram Manager of a steerable axle rail truck development that included designs by Metro Canada and Dofasco, both built and tested.

At Metro Canada, Mr. Lewalski's engineering department was responsible for the design and development of the elevated SkyTrain for Vancouver, BC, the largest driverless system in the world. SkyTrain featured steerable axle trucks and linear motor propulsion, both innovations in public transit.

From 1978 to 1979, Mr. Lewalski worked with Pullman Standard in Chicago, first as a project engineer and then as Chief Designer to provide support to the Pullman program of modularization of stainless steel, bi-level, AMTRAK intercontinental coaches, the Superliners.

In late 1978, Mr. Lewalski took charge, as Chief Designer, of the design of the bi-level, lounge cafe, Superliner car.

While with Pullman, he also prepared a modularization study for a "U.S. Standard" stainless steel mass transit car. The objective of the study was to satisfy the specific requirements of regional transit authorities within the parameters of one basic car concept.

From 1974 to 1978, Mr. Lewalski worked as a project engineer with Hawker Siddeley Canada Ltd. (HSCL) in Thunder Bay, Ontario (presently the division of Bombardier). Mr. Lewalski's first project at HSCL was the conversion of 30 aluminum commuter coaches for GO-Transit.

Since 1975, Mr. Lewalski has been in charge of the design and development of a bi-level commuter car for GO-Transit. The design was entirely new, but the first two cars were built, tested, and delivered 2 years after the signing of the contract. In 1978, the car was awarded the "Excellence of Design" award. There have been 550 of these cars placed in service. For all practical purposes it has become the standard commuter car in the United States and Canada.

Mr. Lewalski's other engineering projects involved the design of aircraft, buses, agricultural tractors, automated production lines, and material handling.
Mr. Lewalski's company specializes in projects that other companies are reluctant to take on due to the high level of technical complexity or tight budgets. D&DE's past projects that fall into this category include the upgrade of the braking system on the San Francisco cable cars, the design of ADA compatible onboard ramps for the Sacramento LRVs, and the engineering of the repair of the NICTD commuter cars after a severe collision.

In 1992, as Head of Mission for the United Nations Development Agency, Mr. Lewalski conducted an audit of the Institute for Electric Transportation in Bhopal, India.

He has been taking part as a nonvoting member in the proceedings of the Automated People Movers Standard Committee. He is also a member of the LRV Standard Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

His studies and publications include among others:
A study for the U.S. Transportation Research Board, LRV Compression Requirements (1997);
Reconstruction of Existing LRVs into Double-Articulated Units with Low-Floor Middle Section (for the Sacramento Transit District, 1994);
The Family of Main Line Coaches from Commuter to High Speed (Hawker Siddeley Canada Limited, 1978);
Standard, Modularized Rapid Transit Vehicle for the U.S. (Pullman Standard, 1979);
The Family of Utility Vans (Federal Institute of Industrial Design, Poland, 1967);
Product Esthetics, a book published in 1988.

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