Excerpt from Nomination of Dharmendra K. Sharma to Be Administrator of the Research and Special Programs Administration, U. S. Department of Transportation: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, June 14, 1994 Dr. Sharma has more than 30 years of professional experience in the energy, science, and technology arena. He has authored more than 40 technical papers on various subject matters. He came to Washington, DC, from the Electric Power Research Institute, epri, in Palo Alto, ca, where he directed energy-related research projects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.