Faurecia, the world’s sixth-largest automotive equipment supplier, recently signed a five-year partnership agreement with leading French engineering schools Supélec and ESIGELEC to create a new chair in Automotive Mechatronics.
The new chair, which will promote research, teaching and knowledge-sharing, is set up with the objective of creating a center of expertise for training engineers and researchers in designing electronic systems for the automotive industry. The focus will be on groundbreaking innovations in design, simulation, architecture and development for complex systems used in Faurecia’s technical solutions and products.
Through this partnership with Supélec and ESIGELEC, Faurecia aims to develop strong synergy between its own industrial R&D and academic research while benefiting from priority access to new advances in electronics and mechatronics, especially for the design of embedded systems. Faurecia’s various activities will be closely linked to the work of the Chair, which will be based on the company’s four core businesses. It will also enhance the appeal of Supélec and ESIGELEC, largely through student projects undertaken during the engineering course. The three partners are seeking to create a center of expertise in electronics for the automotive industry while quickly extending its reach throughout the international scientific community.
“This new chair in teaching and research set up with Supélec and ESIGELEC is part of a partnership strategy that Faurecia has been actively pursuing for the past two years alongside leading engineering schools and research institutes. The addition of new functions and the increasing decentralization of electronics in favor of vehicle subsystems is an opportunity for Faurecia to provide smarter solutions and generate greater value,” explains Faurecia’s Technology Strategy VP, Christophe Aufrère. Alain Bravo, Supélec Director General: “This approach to design brings together a number of Supélec research groups, especially through the E3S research team (Supélec Sciences des Systèmes).”
These groups work hand in hand with ESIGELEC and its IRSEEM Research Institute, through its Embedded Systems Integration Campus (CISE), which has the facilities needed to loop design into testing.
Faurecia, the world’s sixth-largest automotive equipment supplier, recently signed a five-year partnership agreement with leading French engineering schools Supélec and ESIGELEC to create a new chair in Automotive Mechatronics. The new chair, which will promote research, teaching and knowledge-sharing, is set up with the objective of creating a center of expertise for training engineers and … Continued
