Ralph Hegedus joins the AMTeam as Project Manager 

Victor, New York, February 23, 2005 - Applied Mechanical Technologies, Inc. (AMT) announced today that Ralph Hegedus has joined the AMTeam as a Project Manager. Ralph is a seasoned mechanical engineer and holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from RIT. In this additional Project Manager position at AMT, Ralph will manage and be responsible for all aspects of projects from initial specification review to final customer acceptance testing. As in previous positions he has held, Ralph will be responsible for resource allocation, concept development, milestone completions, and the mechanical and electrical design and build of products and test fixtures.

Prior to AMT, Ralph was a Sr. Project Engineer with a research and engineering firm, and also a Sr. Test Engineer with Delphi where he was responsible for validating pre-production Diesel EGR products, working closely with product engineers to develop a robust design and assembly process, designing and managing the build of test equipment and for data acquisition and analysis of part performance.

About AMT:

AMT provides comprehensive product design and development services for medical, consumer, office equipment, industrial, and energy / fuel cell products and technologies.