F-150 team wins Free Press engineering leadership award - Detroit Free Press
Story Highlights In 2008, Ford's former global product chief Derrick Kuzak told a small advanced planning and strategy group to think big as they began work on the next-generation F-150 for 2015. After teams assessed the feasibility of the truck... What started as a handful of engineers on a feasibility mission grew to more than 1,000 working to create the new 2015 Ford F-150 with an aluminum body and a number of other new technologies. The feat made chief engineer Pete Reyes and the many F-150 teams behind the project the winner of the Detroit Free Press Automotive Leadership Award for engineering and technology, as chosen by a panel of independent judges. In 2008, former global product chief Derrick Kuzak told a small advanced planning and strategy group to think big as they began work on the next-generation F-150 for 2015. About six people from the research group explored options for a traditional... Reyes had been working on the Ford Taurus and was brought into the F-150 team early in. Source: www.freep.com
