Roger A. Cassell, PhD

TS&D Manager Roger A. Cassell, PhD Dow Automotive Systems, Specialty Adhesives Group Rubber to Substrate TS&D 10 South Electric St. W. Alexandria, OH USA 45381 Email: rcassell@dow.com Biographical Sketch: Dr. Roger A. Cassell is a Technical Service and Development Manager, USA for The Dow Automotive Systems Specialty Adhesives Group, A Dow Company. He specializes in rubber to substrate bonding technology. A 29-year veteran of the Engineered Rubber Products Industry, Roger served as Technical Manager of Material Development Groups supporting both manufacturing efforts as well as product and process design. He holds a Ph. D. in Chemistry, Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). His dissertation work involved the use of Organo-Silane Chemistry in natural product synthesis and studying reaction mechanisms in Organic Chemistry. Roger is a member of ACS, ACS Rubber Division and SAE. He holds a U.S. Patent and has authored papers related to rubber to substrate (RtS) bonding during his tenure with Dow Automotive Systems(formerly The Rohm and Haas Company), where he provides technical guidance and manufacturing recommendations to the entire RtS Market. E-mail: rcassell@dow.com