Bill Taylor is director of Product Engineering, North America, for the Commercial Vehicle Exhaust group within the Commercial Vehicle Systems business group of ArvinMeritor, Inc. In this position, he directs the technical development of emission control systems for heavy vehicles. This activity includes product requirement definition; resource planning and purchasing; test operations management; technical design and development; and supplier development. Taylor also plays a key role in project strategy and system scope definition.

Prior to his current role, Taylor was engineering manager of the Plasma Products Group at ArvinMeritor, where he managed a technical team on the development of advanced plasma-initiated on-board hydrogen generators. This team developed several key advancements in the technology, including the first installation of the plasma system on-board a vehicle, and the first compact, on-board plasma power supply.

In 2001, Taylor was a fellow in ArvinMeritor’s System Design and Management program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Before entering the MIT program, Taylor was a project engineer in the company’s Advanced Technologies Group. In this role, his primary focus was in computational prediction of heat transfer, fluid flow, chemical reaction and thermal fatigue.

Taylor holds a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University, a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Clemson University and a master of science degree in engineering management from MIT. He has earned multiple awards from the Society of Automotive Engineers for technical paper publications and has received ArvinMeritor’s Engineering Innovation Award for work done on Finite Element methods development.

ArvinMeritor, Inc. is a premier global supplier of a broad range of integrated systems, modules and components to the motor vehicle industry. The company serves light vehicle, commercial truck, trailer and specialty original equipment manufacturers and certain aftermarkets.