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Caterpillar Inc. executive wins AEM award

November 9, 2009


Girish Parvate-Patil of Caterpillar Inc. is the 2009 winner of the AEM Outstanding Young Engineer Award sponsored by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) for SAE International. p>

The AEM award was first presented in 1996. AEM underwrites the award as part of its efforts to promote workforce development and excellence. The candidate must be a degreed engineer from the off-highway or power plant industry with less than 10 years of industry experience. The award recognizes an outstanding young engineer in the off-highway or power plant industry who demonstrates innovation, teamwork, integrity, community involvement and leadership in SAE International activities.

Girish Parvate-Patil is an engine performance analyst in Global Engine Development within Caterpillar’s Product Development Center of Excellence located in Mossville, Ill.

In his role with Caterpillar, Parvate-Patil is responsible for the Tier III and Tier IV engine rating development for off-highway applications. Prior to joining Caterpillar Inc., he was a project lead at the Engine Systems Development Center in Montreal, Canada, where he was actively involved in engine testing and applied research on biodiesel fuels.

Parvate-Patil has presented papers at the SAE Small Engine Technology Conference; the papers were then published in the Journal of Engines of SAE Transactions. He also has co-authored several papers in the fields of variable valve timing and biodiesels for ASME and ImechE.

Parvate-Patil has been a member of SAE International for seven years and serves on the governing board of SAE’s Central Illinois Section. He was involved with Formula SAE and SAE Supermileage.

Parvate-Patil holds a bachelor's degree in production engineering from Kolhapur Institute of Technology’s, College of Engineering in Kolhapur, India, and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. During his graduate program, he was the recipient of the Norman D. Hebert Award for excellence in research.

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