Robert C. Lange

Biography

 Mr. Lange has over 40 years of experience in automotive engineering, specializing in motor vehicle safety and public health. He has worked in the following areas: vehicle fuel economy; vehicle emissions; safety, emissions, and fuel economy rulemaking; vehicle safety and emissions policy development; safety technology development and application patterns; collision causal factors and collision typology; collision and injury risk assessment; occupant performance (restraint use, behavior modification, driver distraction in controls application, task time and glance duration, cell phone use, the human/machine interface, and alcohol impairment); owners' manuals and warnings; vehicle dynamics, responsiveness, and control; tire and wheel systems; chassis systems and collision avoidance (anti-lock brake systems [ABS], electronic stability control [ESC] systems, emergency brake application); rollover vehicle dynamics, occupant kinematics, and injury mechanisms; autonomous sensor-based and cooperative wireless collision avoidance technologies; dynamic collision response for vehicles and occupants in planar and rollover events; occupant protection technologies (energy-absorbing structures, active and passive restraint systems); inflatable restraint sensor system design, performance, and specifications; fire cause, origin and propagation; fuel system design and performance; post-collision performance and response (fire prevention, system integrity and performance, rescue responses and urgency algorithm, automatic collision notification); non-collision injury mechanisms; policy approaches to motor vehicle safety; consumer metrics; rule making; and defect investigations.

Research Interest

 Vehicle Engineering