Joseph E. Kubsh

Dr. Kubsh has been involved with the development and application of mobile source, emission control technologies for more than 20 years. In that time he has been actively involved in catalyst and substrate development programs for both mobile source and stationary source applications, including advanced catalyst coatings, thermally stabilized support materials, and the development of metallic and ceramic substrates for these applications. Dr. Kubsh joined the Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association (MECA) in 2002 and was appointed Executive Director in November 2005. MECA is a non-profit industry association that provides technical information on mobile source emission controls to air quality officials and other stakeholder groups. Dr. Kubsh has authored more than 20 SAE papers or other technical articles in the mobile source application area, served often as an SAE session/SAE TOPTEC/symposium organizer, and is a past Vice Chairman of SAE’s Fuels & Lubricants emissions activities. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University in 1977 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin -Madison in 1982. After receiving his doctorate degree, Dr. Kubsh joined W.R. Grace’s Corporate Research & Development laboratories in Columbia, Maryland, serving in a variety of automotive catalyst technology development positions over the next 14 1/2 years. Dr. Kubsh joined Engelhard’s Environmental Technologies Group (Iselin, New Jersey) in early 1997 and worked in both Engelhard’s Research & Development group and Engelhard’s Marketing group on mobile source catalyst systems.