BMW has announced on Monday a future cooperation between the automaker and Georgia Institute.
A high-level delegation from Georgia Tech made a visit to BMW Group headquarter in Munich in connection with the future cooperation between the two organizations.
“Cooperation with Georgia Tech should provide new impetus for our production and assembly locations worldwide. The collaboration will enable both the BMW Group and Georgia Tech to exploit their strengths in industrial engineering and production systems in preparation for increasing [internationalization],” said Olivet Zipse, head of Technical Planning.
The initial focus of the cooperation will be on research in the field of production. This will start by offering post-graduate scholarships at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, according to the German auto company. BMW said they are confident that the students “will prove a source of new impetus”.
The BMW Group is said to target strategic partnership with selected institutions, such as Georgia Tech. The company hopes for future research to be done as part of the cooperation, especially in the fields of production, new drive technologies, materials and substances, and later supply chain management.
“The Spartanburg plant is looking forward to exciting projects with Georgia Tech and hopes this collaboration will be highly successful on both sides,” Josef Kerscher, head of the BMW plant in Spartanburg.
Some of the attendants of the meeting included Olivet Zipse, Dr. Thomas Lehmann, head of the BMW Munich plant, Hubert Schurkus, head of BMW Corporate Human Resources, Strategy, and Targets, G.P. Peterson, Georgia Tech President, and John Brock, a Georgia Tech alumnus and CEO of Coca Cola Enterprise.
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