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Automotive research institute formed at McMaster University
2nd May 2008
A new research institute has been established at McMaster University in Canada to coordinate its increasing involvement in the automotive sector. The McMaster Institute for Automotive Research and Technology, MacAUTO, brings together more than 75 researchers in engineering, science, business and other faculties involved in automotive-related research.
The university already incorporated the McMaster Steel Research Centre, the McMaster Manufacturing Research Institute and the Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research.
Recent initiatives have added the General Motors of Canada Centre for Automotive Materials and Corrosion, the $46.5 million Initiative for Automotive Manufacturing Innovation, a joint venture with the University of Waterloo, the General Motors of Canada Centre for Engineering Design, and studies in mechatronics and hybrid technologies.
McMaster has also established the McMaster Institute for Transportation and Logistics, and the Dofasco Centre for Engineering and Public Policy. Other automotive research initiatives at the university involve studies in the areas of labour, globalisation, sustainability, and driver behaviour.
David Wilkinson, dean of the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster, was the lead in developing MacAUTO.
(macauto.mcmaster.ca)
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