Mechanical Engineering Faculty Profile

Dr. Alex Severinsky
Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering

2181 Glenn L. Martin Hall, Building 088
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

Phone:  301.405.2410
Fax:  301.314.9477

Research Interests

Synthetic manufacturing of fuels; Hyperdrive power-amplified internal combustion engine power train

Vita

Dr. Severinsky is the inventor of the Hyperdrive power-amplified internal combustion engine power train used in the Toyota Prius and other vehicles, as well as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of PAICE Corporation, which licenses the Hyperdrive to hybrid vehicle manufacturers.  In 2006, Dr. Severinsky resigned as CEO of PAICE and became CEO of Fuelcor LLC, an intellectual property development and management company.  Dr. Severinsky holds 30 patents in the United States with numerous patent filings in countries worldwide.

Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Institute for Precision Measurements in Radioelectronics and Physics, (Moscow, Russia), 1975
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Kharkov College of Radioelectronics (Kharkov, Ukraine), 1967

Scientific and Professional Membership

Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Honors And Awards

2008 - Inductee into the A. James Clark School of Engineering Innovation Hall of Fame, University of Maryland
2009 - Thomas A. Edison Patent Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

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