Mario Asselin is chairman of Asselin, Inc. (www.asselininc.com), a company that provides engineering services in performance, stability and control. He is also an Engineering Fellow for Bombardier Aerospace, a Transport Canada DAD, and a FAA flight analyst DER for Part 23 & 25. Asselin previously held positions as Director of Flight Test Center Engineering, Operations, and Quality for Bombardier Flight Test Center in Wichita, Kansas, manager flight test team CSeries at the Bombardier Flight Test Center in Wichita, senior manager of engineering flight test with Honda Aircraft Corporation, vice president of engineering with Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporation, Learjet's chief of stability and control at the Bombardier Flight Test Center in Wichita, chief technical for Bombardier's CRJ-900. He has taught courses for the Royal Military College of Canada, McGill University and Concordia University in Montreal. He is the author of An Introduction to Aircraft Performance. Asselin holds a B.E. in mechanical engineering from the Royal Military College of Canada and an M.Sc.A. in aerothermodynamics from École  Polytechnique of Montreal.