ICAR at the BMW Zentrum

LeeStogner

IEEE Piedmont Section,

Starting in October, the Piedmont Section in upstate South Carolina will be hosting a series of meetings that will promote the growing automotive industry in Region 3. The automotive industry is important to Electrical Engineers because of the increasing
electronic and systems content in the modern automobile. Almost every major automotive manufacturer in the world has either built or is building a design / manufacturing facility in Region 3. This is in addition to the hundreds of supplier plants that have located in the Southeast.

Because of this automotive momentum, the State of South Carolina has announced the International Center for Automotive Research, ICAR. ICAR is currently being built in Greenville, South Carolina. The head of ICAR, Bob Geolas, will speak at the Piedmont Section meeting on October 28. The automotive systems series of meetings will continue through early next year. The goal of this series is to build momentum that can result in a regional automotive systems conference in the near future.

Come early to the meeting and take a tour of the BMW Zentrum.

Meeting Details:
Date October 28, 2004
Time 6:30 PM EDT
Location BMW Zentrum
Speaker Bob Geolas - ICAR
Topic ICAR - It's Beginning and Plans for the Future

Directions to the BMW Zentrum;

Take I-85 from Greenville
Take Exit 60
Left at the top of the ramp (towards Greer)
Left at the second light
Follow signs to Zentrum parking

More information on ICAR can be found here: http://www.clemson.edu/autoresearch/ http://www.bmwusfactory.com/media_center/releases/release.asp?intReleaseNum=134&strYear=2004

For further information on the ICAR meeting or the upcoming automotive systems meeting series, contact Lee Stogner at l.stogner@ieee.org
 

Lee Stogner

Chair, IEEE-USA Government Activities Committee

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