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Michael McMillan, Director (Proposed), formed MLM Consulting Services, Inc. in 2005, providing senior-level consulting services to organizations such as GM Powertrain, ILSAC and selected other organizations in the additive industry. For more than 35 years, Dr. McMillan served with General Motors, where he concentrated on the relationships of fuels and lubricants to their performance in automotive components. Dr. McMillan also has published numerous papers on subjects in this area. He was closely involved in ASTM efforts to develop low-temperature engine oil pumpability testing and high-temperature rheological tests which predict engine wear, as well as CRC and ASTM efforts to solve diesel fuel-related problems including low-temperature operability and exhaust particulate formation. Concerned with all aspects of engine oil quality and performance, he was closely involved with efforts to improve lubricant performance through the development of worldwide performance specifications.
Dr. McMillan has served as chairman of the International Lubricant Standardization and Approval Committee (ILSAC), co-chairman of the Administrative Guidance Panel which oversaw the API Engine Oil Licensing and Certification System, and was an active participant in numerous ASTM and SAE technical committee activities. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers in 2002.
Dr. McMillan received his BS (1964) and MS (1965) degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Ohio State University in 1970. | 