As Executive Director & Chief Technologist for Delphi Corporation, Dr. Brown provides leadership on corporate innovation and technology issues to help achieve profitable competitive advantage. He also represents Delphi globally in outside forums on matters of innovation and technology including government and regulatory agencies, customers, alliance partners, vendors, contracting agencies, academia, etc. Prior to this assignment, Dr. Brown had responsibility for common policies, practices, processes and performance across Delphi’s 17,000 member technical community globally and its budget of $2.0 billion, including establishing Delphi’s global engineering footprint with new centers in Poland, India, China, Mexico, etc.
Dr. Brown came to Delphi from the GM Research and Development Center in Warren, Michigan, where he was Director-Strategic Futures. Also, he served as a Manager of Saturn Car Facilities from 1985 to 1987. At Saturn, he was on the Site Selection Team and responsible for the conceptual design and engineering of this innovative manufacturing facility.
Dr. Brown began his GM career as a Project Engineer at Manufacturing Development in 1973. He progressed in the engineering field as a Senior Project Engineer, Staff Development Engineer, and manager of R&D for the Manufacturing Staff. During this period, he worked on manufacturing processes and systems with an emphasis on energy systems, productivity improvement and environmental efficiency. Before joining GM, he supervised process development at Allied-Signal Corporation, now Honeywell, Incorporated, in Morristown, New Jersey.
He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from Wayne State University in 1971. He received a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Marketing from Wayne State in 1975 and Master of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering focused on energy and environmental engineering from the University of Detroit-Mercy in 1978. He completed the Penn State Executive Management Course in 1979. A registered Professional Engineer, Dr. Brown earned a Doctorate of Engineering in September 1992.
He currently serves or has served on the boards of the following organizations—Ford Design Institute, Society of Automotive Engineers Inc., Engineering Society of Detroit, Convergence Education Foundation, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Convergence Transportation Electronics Foundation, National Council of Engineering Examiners, State of Michigan Board of Professional Engineers, WSU College of Engineering Board of Advisors. Dr. Brown has been an adjunct professor at Wayne State University, University of Michigan, and Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). He is also the only Delphi member of the National Academy of Engineers and was recently appointed to the SAE Foundation Board of Trustees.
Dr. Andrew Brown Jr., P.E., NAE
Executive Director & Chief Technologist
Innovation & Technology
Delphi Corporation
