Dr. Suresh Bansal

Dr. Bansal has been College Professor and Director of the Master of Science in Automotive Engineering Program at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) since 1997. He is the founder of the Automotive Engineering Institute at LTU and is actively leading this initiative as Director of this Institute.

Prior to joining LTU, he gained over 20 years of Engineering and Management experience at Ford Motor Company. He held positions as Director in Ford Brazil and Argentina Operations for Corporate Quality, Process Improvement and Information Systems. He was also Chief Engineer for Axles, Drive trains, Steering and Suspension for Ford North America and other Global Operations. He has over 10 years experience in Manual and Automatic Transmission Engineering with special focus on Gear Technology and Noise Vibration Technology. Prior to Joining Ford Motor Company, he gained fourteen years of valuable experience in design of Mechanical Drive trains for Special Purpose Machines as well as design of Manufacturing Systems for Automotive Industry.

He holds two U.S. Patents in Mechanical Drive Systems. One of these is on a Multi-speed Axle Drive System and the other is on Transfer Drive System. The balance of his work and reports in the industry were internal to the organizations he worked for and are of proprietary nature.