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Honda today unveiled the newest associate profile in its 12-part What Makes a Honda is Who Makes a Honda video series. Annie Boh is an aerospace engineer focused on vehicle aero acoustics at Honda R&D Americas (HRA). 

An 11-year Honda veteran, Boh oversees wind noise marketability throughout a product's development. From concept to mass production model, the vehicle's aerodynamics are evaluated by Boh and her team using computer aided testing and full scale wind tunnel testing. By understanding how the air outside the vehicle impacts the noise inside, Boh develops modifications that help lead to the quiet, smooth ride of Honda and Acura products.

"We have the opportunity to impact the lives of so many people through the power of engineering and design," said Boh. "To help develop a product used everyday that adds efficiency, functionality and safety to a person's life is a responsibility the Honda team and I take very seriously."

In addition to her work at Honda, Boh is a guardian ad litem for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). As a CASA volunteer, Boh serves as a voice in the court system for children who have been the victims of severe abuse or neglect. By getting to know both the children and the adults in their lives, she can make recommendations on what is best for the children long term.

"CASA helps foster the human spirit in a child. A little bit of empowerment – just knowing a child has a choice in life – goes such a long way," said Boh. "And statistically, this program works. As an engineer, that is very important to me."

The What Makes a Honda is Who Makes a Honda video series focuses on Honda's commitment to innovation, inclusion, a youthful spirit and respect for the individual – core tenets of Honda's approach to business that work equally well in the community. In addition, the videos spotlight the diverse career opportunities that exist within Honda, while also showcasing inspiring ways these associates engage in their communities.

The What Makes a Honda is Who Makes a Honda series will run on Honda's YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/Honda.

About Honda
Honda established operations in America in 1959, and now employs more than 33,000 associates in its North America sales, R&D and manufacturing. It now operates 16 major manufacturing facilities in North America, producing a wide range of Honda and Acura automobiles, automobile engines and transmissions, Honda all-terrain vehicles, and power equipment products such as lawn mowers, mini-tillers and general purpose engines, using domestic and globally sourced parts.

This includes eight Honda auto plants in the North American region that have the capacity to produce 1.92 million automobiles each year.  Honda operates major research and development centers in the U.S. that fully design, develop and engineer many of the products Honda produces in North America.

In 2013, more than 90 percent of the Honda and Acura automobiles sold in the U.S. were produced in North America.

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