BIOGRAPHIES OF SPEAKERS

Public Forum on Driver Education and Training
October 28-29, 2003
Washington, DC

History and Research

Dr. Jim Nichols
After 30 years, Dr. Nichols retired from NHTSA as the Director of the Office of Research and Traffic Records, under which NHTSA's driver education and training efforts reside. Over the course of his career, he played a central role in developing a knowledge base about what problems we face in highway safety, what safety programs work, and what performance measures are valuable. His focus on evaluation and replication of programs helped establish guidelines for the programs that States have implemented, especially those addressing driver education. Dr. Nichols was instrumental in developing, managing and evaluating large-scale demonstration projects in driver education (e.g., SPC Curriculum Evaluation, Drive Education Evaluation Study). Dr. Nichols is still involved in traffic safety and serves on the Centers for Disease Control's review committee to ensure that traffic safety issues are addressed, including driver education. Because of his lengthy and continuing expertise in this area, Dr. Nichols has a history and working knowledge of driver education and training as well as the contacts for those who are involved in driver education at the Federal, State, research and association levels. Dr. Nichols can provide the history and research associated with driver education and training in a thorough and timely manner, which is critical to the development of the forum and recommendations on driver education and training.

Dr. Allen Robinson
Dr. Robinson is the Director and Professor in the Highway Safety Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Professor of Health & Physical Education, CEO, American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association, Certification Secretary of the North American Transportation Management Institute, on the Transportation Research Board Committee on Operator Education, and an instructor, National Commercial Driver License Examiner Train-The-Trainer Program, American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators. His work focuses on research and advocacy for improved driver education and training. He has worked in the areas of truck driver training, train-the-trainer programs, motorcycle safety, driver education, and highway safety. He has published numerous papers on driver education and training, motorcycle safety, and human factors in traffic safety. Dr. Robinson has received awards for outstanding achievement and contributions in driver and traffic safety education.

U.S. and International Programs

Mr. Sean McLaurin
Mr. McLaurin is a Highway Safety Specialist with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Office of Program Development and Delivery. Mr. McLaurin's responsibilities include: Graduated Driver Licensing Program for young novice drivers, Driver Education programs, driver license security, claimed identity verification and Crash Record Information Systems. Mr. McLaurin has traveled extensively in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, and Europe speaking on driver licensing systems, teen injuries and deaths from automobile crashes, driver education and computerized traffic record systems.

During his 23 year federal career, Mr. McLaurin has worked in Dept of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Smithsonian Institution and, Department of Transportation. Mr. McLaurin has been at the Department of Transportation since 1990.

Mr. Larry Lonero
Mr. Lonero has many years experience in the human factors of collision prevention. He combines a background of graduate study in psychology and a life-long interest in vehicles and driving. He is an internationally-recognized expert on the driving task and methods of influencing driver behavior. Prior to entering consulting, he held senior government positions in research and develop­ment, primarily in transportation safety. He was responsible for development, regulation, and administration of driver education in Ontario and for liaising with the provincial education department and the commercial driving school industry. He directed development of the driver education textbook, Road Worthy, used in Ontario and other jurisdictions. He was responsible for program development, evaluation, and administration in driver licensing and driver improvement. He maintains a strong interest in safety strategy and policy development, particularly in the driver and vehicle regulation area. He has specific training and ongoing interest in regulatory theory and practice, as well as experience with policy development processes in government, specifically including driver training and licensing policy. He is active in driver factors analysis for civil litigation in road crashes.

Mr. Lonero has led major government-sponsored driver R&D projects, including synthesizing all methods of behavioural influence as applicable to road user performance. In work related to beginner driver education, he was project leader on the 1995 project to "reinvent" driver education sponsored by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. He subsequently led two projects to develop a model driver training curriculum and implement a regulatory standard for driving school curricula for the Province of British Columbia. Mr. Lonero presented invited papers on driver training and graduated licensing to special workshops sponsored by the Transportation Research Board's Committee on Operator Education and Regulation, of which he is a member. He acted as advisor to projects developing computer-based interactive driving instruction in the U.S. and Canada, as well as new classroom and in-car curriculum development. He led a major review for a NHTSA project on young drivers' decision making. He led an extensive project to evaluate the impacts of a driver education program in a Canadian province. He has also been involved in the strategic consolidation of the driving school industry and its integration with automotive manufacturing.

Dr. Stefan Siegrist
Dr. Siegrist studied at the University of Bern with a main subject of psychology, specifically focusing on social psychology, general psychology and criminal law. He earned a Ph.D. in 1992. From 1988 to 1996, he served as Head of 'Training department' at the Swiss Council for Accident Prevention (Beratungsstelle für Unfallverfütung bfu) with emphasis on the conception and evaluation of programmes for the training and retraining of drivers and driver improvement. Since 1997 he has been head of the 'Research Department' which carries out safety related research into road traffic, sport and leisure activities. Dr. Siegrist has been published in areas of socio-psychological analysis of impaired driving; enforcement; evaluation voluntary further training courses, safety campaigns and driver improvement activities; evidence-based national road safety plan.

State Programs

Elizabeth Weaver
Elizabeth Weaver graduated from Texas A&M University with a masters in Educational Technology. She was with the Motorcycle Safety Foundation for over 18 years and during 13 of those years she was the Director of Education. In that capacity she was responsible for the development and maintenance of all the motorcycle safety education and training materials for novice and experienced motorcyclists; course delivery standards and the training and certification of instructors and chief instructors.

She is a co-author of the 10th edition of the Skills and Application Workbook for the Drive Right textbook and will be a co-author of the next edition of the Drive Right Student Edition Textbook. Weaver is a past-President of the Association for State Supervisors for Safety and Driver Education and is president-elect of the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association.

Currently she is the state director for driver education in Idaho where she provides support to over 350 driver education teachers, 110 school districts, and 35 commercial schools. Her responsibilities include on-site reviews of teachers in the classroom and during in-car instruction; teaching the instructor courses at the state's three universities; and conducting workshops and conferences for the state's driver education teachers and administrators.

Greg Lantzy
Mr. Lantzy has bachelors and masters degrees in education from Michigan State University and received Driver Education approval in 1987. He has taught and coordinated driver education (part-time) at various public schools in Lansing area and taught driver education full time in Lansing School District for five years. Mr. Lantzy owned a driver training school for a short time. He was hired as consultant for traffic safety for Department of Education in January 2000. Currently, Mr. Lantzy is Supervisor, Pupil Transportation, Driver and Rider Safety Program and oversees pupil transportation and driver education programs in Michigan. He is President of the Association of State Supervisors of Safety and Driver Education (ASSSDE) and the Michigan Department of Education representative on the Governor's Traffic Safety Advisory Commission (GTSAC), as well as chairperson of the Driver Education/Licensing Action Team. He has held numerous positions in the Michigan Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association MDTSEA and received Distinguished Achievement Award from MDTSEA in 1999. In 2001, Mr. Lanty was in the Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP).

David Huff
David Huff directs the traffic education programs for the State of Montana through the Montana Office of Public Instruction. He oversees two distinctly different driver education/training programs-the novice driver education program for eligible teens, and the Montana Advanced Driver Education program, a behind-the-wheel crash avoidance training for licensed drivers.

David's career in driver training began in 1979 with the training of school bus drivers. In 1992 he became the pupil transportation director for the state of Montana, and in 1995 he co-chaired the special needs school bus committee for the Twelfth National Conference on School Transportation. In 1995 he took a three-year detour, directing Montana's adult basic education program, and then re-hitched his career to driver training in 1998 with his present position.

David is presently Past President of the Association of State Supervisors of Safety and Driver Education (ASSSDE), and has a progressive 20-year history of leadership in state and national roles, including published articles on pupil transportation and driver education.

In the fall of 2001, David completed a Master of Science in Education from Montana State University at Northern, with an emphasis on Learning Development and focus on traffic safety education.

John Harvey

John Harvey has been a high school and college driver education teacher and administrator for 36 years. He is a native of Pennsylvania where he received his Bachelor's degree in Health Education and a minor in driver and traffic safety education from Slippery Rock State University. Mr. Harvey was a 1965 Chrysler Scholarship recipient to Central Missouri State University where he completed his Master's Degree in Safety. He began his 12 years as a full time driver education teacher in Duke Center, Pennsylvania and then moved to Connecticut. In 1971, he began preparing new driver educators at Central Connecticut State University.

His career in statewide administration began in 1979 as the driver and safety education consultant for the VT Dept. of Education. His responsibilities included coordinating driver education, K12 traffic safety, school bus safety and youth traffic safety program. He led the Vermont driver and safety education program to national prominence in youth traffic safety and driver education and was awarded the NHTSA Award of Excellence. Projection graduation was established in 80% of the high schools through his efforts and a model youth traffic safety program. In 1990, Mr. Harvey joined the leadership team of statewide coordinators in the state of Washington with the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. He provided leadership to the eastern part for the state of Washington serving more than 118 public schools and twenty-five commercials driving schools. Mr. Harvey continued to prepare new driver and traffic safety educators. He was the editor of the Washington Traffic Safety Education Association quarterly Journal. In addition, he served on the WA Traffic Safety Education Curriculum Revision Committee and chaired the Parent Involvement Task Force that created the model WA Model Parent Involvement Resource Guide.

Professionally, he has been involved in various state and national organizations to support quality driver education. Mr. Harvey also served as the President of the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association. For the last three years he has served on the executive committee of the Association of State Supervisors of Safety and Driver Education. He was elected this summer as the President Elect of the Association of State Supervisors of Safety and Driver Education (ASSSDE).

Mr. Harvey coordinated and taught and managed local, statewide and national programs committed to promote quality driver and traffic safety education programs. John has completed the National DE Teacher Certification and Recognition Program developed by ADTSEA. In addition, he is nationally certified as an Auto Control Monster Trainer of Trainers from the National Institute for Driver Behavior. These programs are designed to improve the quality of DE teachers by standardizing DE teacher preparation.

Mr. Harvey is presently the Program Manager of Driver Education in the Transportation Safety Division of the Oregon Department of Transportation in Salem, Oregon.

Barry Ford
Mr. Ford is the Driver & Traffic Safety Education Consultant with the Vermont Dept. of Education. He is a member of the Association of State Supervisors of Safety & Driver Education Board, Vermont Governor's Highway Safety Policy Council, President Elect New England Traffic Safety Education Assoc., Vermont Driver Traffic Safety Education Assoc., and the American Driver Traffic Safety Education Assoc.

He is also Program Coordinator for Vermont Driver & Traffic Safety Teacher Preparation, an Ad Hoc Member National Institute For Driving Behavior, a member of the Vermont Graduated Driver License Task Force, a Driver & Traffic Safety Education Classroom & In-Vehicle Instructor (30 years) and has been the Dept. of Education Program Coordinator since 1998.

Driver Education Teacher and Student Perspectives

Steve Cebulka

Mr. Cebulka has a B.S., Social Studies with Driver Education Certificate from Millersville University and a Master of Education from the University of Delaware. He has been a Driver Education instructor since 1972 and has been Department Chair since 1978. He is a member of the Delaware Driver and Safety Education Association and has been involved with the development of curriculum standards for driver education, the 50th anniversary of driver education in Delaware and on the Governor's Task Force on Driver Education.

Debbie Cottonware
Ms. Cottonware was the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association's 2003 Teacher of the Year and the Washington Traffic Safety Education Association's 2002 Teacher of the Year. She was the a Traffic Safety Education Coordinator/Instructor for 14 years in the Onalaska School District in Onalaska, Washington. Currently she is employed as a 5^th grade teacher in Havre Public Schools, Havre, Montana. Ms. Cottonware is also adjunct faculty at Montana State University-Northern where she trains teachers to teach Driver Education to teens. She is also adjunct faculty at Central Washington University as a traffic safety education teacher trainer.

Ms. Cottonware has received numerous awards, including the Lewis County, Washington DUI/Traffic Safety Task Force Member of the Year in 1996, the National Student Safety Program Advisor of the Year and the Washington State SAFTYE (Stop Auto Fatalities Through Youth Efforts) Advisor of the Year, both in 1994. She is nationally certified as a Trainer of Trainers by the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association.

Kayla Craddick
During Ms. Craddick's senior year of high school she served as the south central rep for National Student Safety Program. She has attended 2 NSSP Conferences and one of those year she helped plan it. She was upgraded from a student workshop to a power workshop to talk about Youth Summit, an anti drug/ alcohol program that she put on for her high school. She plans to continue speaking at events across her home state of Texas. She is now attending college and in the future plans to pursue a career in public relations.

Brad Wells
Mr. Wells is an eighteen year old student at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He got involved in National Student Safety Program his sophomore year of high school when his English teacher, the club advisor for NSSP, approached him and asked him if he would be interested in attending a safety conference in a couple of months. From there things only got better as Mr. Wells also attended the National Conference, where he was elected as the North West Regional Representative. At the next safety conference he was elected as the President of the National Student Safety Program. Some of his hobbies include hanging out with friends and playing on the computer. Right now he also seems to becoming quite fond of homework, it seems to be about the only thing he does. He plans on graduating with a BS in Chemistry and becoming a radiologist, and later on in life having a career in politics. Right now he is just attending college, and still helping out his local NSSP chapter when he can.

Associations Panel I

Randy Thiel
Dr. Randy Thiel is the president of the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association (ADTSEA), a professional association with over 1,000 professional and corporate members, representing traffic safety educators throughout the United States and abroad. Dr. Thiel earned his Ph.D. in Traffic Safety from Texas A&M University, and currently works at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction as an Alcohol Traffic Safety Consultant. Prior to this, Dr. Thiel served as an Assistant Professor of Health & Safety and as the Director of the Driver and Traffic Safety Center at Indiana State University. He has been a member of the Governor's Highway Safety Advisory Council in Wisconsin since 1991.

D. Keith Russell
Mr. Russell is the executive director of the Driving School Association of the Americas (DSAA), an association that represents more than 4,000 driver education and traffic safety companies in North America. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Dual News Magazine, a driving school industry publication. Mr. Russell has operated driver education and traffic safety companies for the past 17 years. He is currently the president of AFDA, a driving school with locations in North Carolina, Kentucky and Indiana that offers driver education, defensive driving, and driver improvement programs to teenagers and adults.

Mr. Russell has served on the Board of the North Carolina Association of Professional Driving Schools, the Electronic Stability Coalition Board, the National Road Safety Coalition Board.

Wayne Tully
Wayne Tully, is the CEO of the National Driver Training Institute and the author/publisher of Help for the Teenager Who Wants to Drive and Graduated Driver Licensing in the Home.

He began his research of driver education after several teens were killed in Colorado on a Christmas week in 1994. Several fellow church members, who also were also affected by the fatal crashes agreed to do something about the training process used for driver education. This group of traffic safety professionals and officers of the United States Army and Air Force (one a commander of 2 squads of F15 fighters) created Help for the Teenager Who Wants to Drive. Using the same training process for fighter pilots in the United States Air Force, this program became the first approved "Graduated Driver Licensing" program in the United States. The results have been amazing.

Today, Wayne works with state leaders in almost every state to create legislation to mandate parents' involvement in the driver education process. He continually testifies before the State House of Representatives and the State Senate on the amazing results of Graduated Driver Licensing and Parent Taught Driver Education. He has co-authored, supplied witnesses, and/or financially supported a change in driver education and training laws in 28 states. Each of those 28 states carries a victory for parents and teens.

Today, Help for the Teenager Who Wants to Drive is still the only approved true and complete Graduated Driver License Program in the country.

Frederik Mottola

Mr. Mottola, a traffic safety scientist, inventor, and author, is recognized as a National leader in driver behavioral patterns. He is Executive Director of the nonprofit National Institute for Driver Behavior. He has developed crash-reducing programs for corporations, municipalities, police, military, emergency vehicle operators, and Traffic Safety Educators, on local, national and international levels. He has authored several books, videos series, and CD-ROM programs. He was featured in the June, 2001 issue of Biography Magazine. In August, 2002, he received the prestigious Kaywood Award from the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association.

Dr. Richard Harkness
Dr. Harkness is Chief Executive Officer of ADEPT, Inc. Dr. Harkness, a founder of ADEPT in 1995, creates business and marketing models that accelerate technology transfer from "think tanks" to product implementation. Using these models, Dr. Harkness assembled the ADEPT Advisory Council and directed product design of teenSMART and other ADEPT products. He continues to provide the vision for ADEPT product development, marketing and strategic planning. His business career has focused on accelerating innovation and technology transfer from "brain trusts" to product implementation. Dr. Harkness has held teaching and administrative positions at three universities. He received a BA degree in psychology, an MA degree in educational psychology, and an Ed.D. degree in Psychometrics/Educational Psychology, all from the University of the Pacific.

Associations Panel II

Troy Costales
Mr. Costales is the Transportation Safety Division Manager and Governor's Highway Safety Representative since September of 1997 with formal delegation letters from Governor Kitzhaber and Oregon's current Governor Ted Kulongoski He has over 16 years experience in Transportation Safety and is serving in his third term as a member of the board for the Governor's Highway Safety Association (GHSA) and is aksi a member of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) - Standing Committee on Highway Safety. Additionally, Mr. Costales is a member of the Transportation Safety Management Committee for the Transportation Research Board and was committee chairman for the 2000 Maryland Impaired Driving Assessment in cooperation with NHTSA.

Has been recipient of multiple USDOT, ODOT and Governor's special recognition and excellence awards, including "Administrator of the Year" in 2000 by the Oregon Traffic Safety Education Association. He was a member of the recent USDOT sponsored international scanning trip "Managing and Organizing Highway Safety" that visited Sweden, Netherlands, Germany and Britain.

Under Mr. Costales' leadership, Oregon has seen a dramatic decline in traffic fatalities and injuries, to the lowest level since 1959. The number of individuals injured in traffic crashes has also declined by more than 30% since the peak of 39,000 in 1996. In addition, Oregon started a strong graduated driver license program that includes an incentive for driver education. Over the past two years the number of 16 year-old drivers behind the wheel when someone is killed or injured, has declined by over 32%. Oregon continues to post one of the highest safety belt use rates in the nation at 91%.

Charles Butler
Mr. Butler received his B.S. degree in Accident Prevention, Health and Physical Education from the University of Maryland in 1972 and has taught in the District of Columbia public schools and Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Butler joined AAA in 1976. As Director, Traffic Safety Sales and Product Development at AAA, he oversees the research, development, marketing and distribution of programs, materials and services for educational and consumer purposes. Mr. Butler directed the development and production of Licensed to Learn, AAA's new interactive, integrated, state-of-the art driver education program. He also directed the development of AAA's Teaching Your Teens to Drive, a parent involvement program, as well as the revision of the AAA driver education textbooks, Responsible Drivingand How to Drive.

Mr. Butler directed the development and production of AAA's Managing Visibility, Time and Space and Safe Driving for Mature Operators driver improvement programs. Managing Visibility, Time and Space and Safe Driving for Mature Operators courses are recognized and approved accident-prevention programs which provide driver violation point reduction and insurance premium discounts in 35 states.

Mr. Butler is the lead instructor for AAA's driver education teacher-preparation courses, in addition to driver improvement instructor and instructor/leader courses throughout the United States. He is a member of the American Driver Safety Education Association, Association of Driver Educators for the Disabled, and the Driver Schools Association of the Americas.

Allan Williams
Dr. Williams is Chief Scientist at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety; he has been with the Institute since 1972. Dr. Williams has a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University. He has published more than 250 articles in a wide variety of research areas including alcohol, drugs and driving; seat belt use; and preventing motor vehicle deaths and injuries among teenagers and children.

Chuck Hurley
Mr. Hurley is the Vice President, Transportation Safety Group, National Safety Council. In that role, he oversees the Council's efforts in highway safety, truck safety, and other activities. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Council's highly acclaimed Air Bag and Seat Belt Safety Campaign. He has long been involved with the National Safety Council, starting up its Washington Office in 1977, serving on its Board of Directors and that of its Foundation. Prior to joining the Council, he had worked for a Governor, a State Speaker, and a Mayor, before coming to Washington to serve as Legislative Director to Congressman William A. Steiger, co-author of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

Mr. Hurley has received a number of national awards for his work, including the Public Service Award from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. He has been a member of the National Board of Directors of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. He also served in the United States Navy as an Intelligence Officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency in Taipei, Taiwan.

Peter Kissinger
Mr. Kissinger is the President & CEO of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, a position he has held since May 2002. The AAA Foundation is a not-for-profit affiliate of AAA and the AAA motor clubs that supports research and develops educational products to enhance traffic safety.

Prior to joining the AAA Foundation, Kissinger served as Senior Vice President at the Civil Engineering Research Foundation (CERF), an affiliate of the American Society of Civil Engineers. In addition, he spent 12 years with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), first as a Safety Specialist and later as Managing Director. Early in his career Kissinger held various positions with the US Coast Guard.

Kissinger earned a MS in operations research from the George Washington University and a bachelor's degree in engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.

Gerald Donaldson
Dr. Donaldson is a Senior Research Director of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, a highway and motor vehicle safety public interest lobbying organization. He has given numerous speeches, Congressional testimony, draft legislative proposals, regulatory policy analyses, federal agency rulemaking comments, manuals, final reports, funding guides, white papers, presentations, articles, and media interviews. He is a member of National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board committees, Institute of Transportation Engineers Safety Coordinating Council, National Safety Council Roadway Environment Committee, National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, as well as past and current service on many other transportation committees, study groups, conferences, and negotiated rulemaking and advisory committees. Dr. Donaldson received is PhD from the University of Virginia and has held positions teaching at George Washington University, as the D.C. Citizens Association representative before D.C. Council, U.S. Department of Transportation, and Regional Council of Governments, as a researcher, advocate, and director for the Center for Auto Safety, and as Co-Chair of Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways (CRASH), a nationwide truck safety public interest organization.

Current Research

Bimal Aponso
Mr. Aponso was a key contributor and software engineer for the initial development of the PC based STI driving simulator. In an almost 20-year history with STI, Mr. Aponso has worked on several projects involving both air and ground vehicles. He is experienced in the development and use of interactive simulations in both these areas. In the area of ground vehicles, he was responsible for the development of an interactive simulation of a heavy tracked vehicle using mainframe computers and the initial development of STI's PC-based driving simulators. He was also a primary contributor to the functional specification for the National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS). Mr. Aponso is responsible for the development and marketing of STI's simulation products including STI's driving simulator. In this role, he administers all STI simulator sales and overlooks marketing and product development strategy.

Mr. Aponso has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manchester in the UK, an MS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland, and an MBA from the University of Southern California. He is a member of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Technical Committee on Modeling and Simulation, a member of the American Helicopter Society (AHS) Technical Committee on Flight Simulation, and a registered Professional Engineer (Mechanical Engineering) in California.

Dale Ritzel
Dr. Ritzel, Director, Safety Center, and Professor, Health Education, Southern Illinois University Carbondale has been teaching driver education and traffic safety for 39 years. He has been involved in driver education research, including high school students driving and drinking, aggressive driving, etc. He is the founder of the DE-L, the driver education listserv. He has written extensively on the use of the Internet and Safety. He recently served on the Board of Directors of the National Safety Council (Board member for 16 years and Vice President, 12 years).

Terry Kline
Terry is serving as an Associate Professor at Eastern Kentucky University in the Traffic Safety Institute since August 15, 1997 and in special programs for the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association and Indiana University of Pennsylvania through NHTSA grant allocations. He holds degrees form Millersville State University of Pennsylvania (B.S. in Ed.), Central Missouri State University (M.S. in Safety), and Texas A&M University (Ed.D. in Industrial Education/Curriculum Specialist).

He has experience as a research associate at Texas A&M University, an adjunct professor at Central Washington University, a regional traffic safety specialist in Washington State, a graduate assistant at Central Missouri State University, and driver education instructor in Pennsylvania. He has lectured on driver skill enhancement techniques in over forty state and national association conferences. He has developed curriculum for highway-railroad grade crossings, elementary bicycle education, junior high school traffic safety, secondary alcohol and driver education, adult commercial driver skill enhancement, and adult alcohol education programs. He has been the editor of "The Chronicle of ADTSEA" and "ADTSEA News and Views" a refereed national journal for traffic safety education and has served as editor for state associations in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Texas. Publications include more than forty articles on related driver and traffic safety issues, contributions to several national magazines, and the Encyclopedia of Education concerning driver and traffic safety education. He has worked with local and national news media in supporting traffic safety education concerns.

Jean Shope