Tony Laituri
Technical Specialist, Biomechanics and Occupant Simulation
Ford Motor Company

Tony R. Laituri is a technical specialist in biomechanics and occupant simulation with Ford Motor Company.

Mr. Laituri has worked for Ford Motor Company for sixteen years. He provides theoretical assessments of proposed safety systems and proposed safety regulations. Mr. Laituri has earned numerous awards including the prestigious Ralph H. Isbrandt Automotive Safety Engineering Award for outstanding contribution to SAE literature in 2003; two Henry Ford Technology Awards for airbag depowering research and advanced restraint system design in 1998 and 1999, respectively; and an SAE Oral Presentation Award regarding advanced airbag rulemaking in the United States in 2001. Mr. Laituri has published fifteen technical papers in the area of passenger car and aircraft safety.

Mr. Laituri received BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University (1986 and 1988, respectively). His graduate work on low-altitude wind-shear turbulence modeling for flight simulators was conducted at the NASA-Langley Research Center (1987).

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