On-site Partners

BMW Information Technology Research Center

Located at the entrance of Technology Neighborhood I, the BMW Information Technology Research Center (ITRC) sits beside the Campbell Graduate Engineering Center. The ITRC is an integral part of BMW’s research and development network. Here, BMW, along with the IT industry and universities, is working on customer-relevant innovations that interface the vehicle with its IT backend requirements.

SAE

SAE International is a global association of 115,000 mobility professional members who center their work in the aerospace, automotive and commercial vehicle industries. SAE International’s core competencies are life-long learning and standards development.
Contact: Nancy Lewis or Shawn Andreassi, both of SAE International, (248) 273-4092 or pr@sae.org

INTEC

INTEC U.S. Inc., a German software company headquartered in Munich (INTEC GmbH), has selected the CU-ICAR campus as headquarters for its first U.S. presence. A technology leader in software for the automotive industry, INTEC provides multi-body and real-time simulation software to CU-ICAR graduate students and professors.

INTEC’s SIMPACK software, used for such simple mechanisms as door latches or complex full-vehicle models that include cars, airplanes, wind turbines, trains and engines, will support the development of mechanical or mechatronic devices. SIMPACK is used by such companies as BMW, Daimler, Bombardier and Bosch.

INTEC hopes to create 15 software technology jobs at its CU-ICAR campus location in the next five years.

Ozen Engineering Inc., CADFEM and EnginSoft

A consortium formed by Ozen Engineering Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., CADFEM GmbH of Munich, Germany, and EnginSoft, SpA, of Trento, Italy, selected the CU-ICAR campus as headquarters for its U.S. presence in order to provide consulting services and specialized software for advanced computer modeling to the automotive industry and others.

Ozen, CADFEM and EnginSoft provide consulting services for advanced mechanical engineering problems. The group also provides and supports specialized software packages for the automotive industry, including Virtual Paint Shop for paint simulation, LS-Dyna for crash simulation, ModeFrontier for multi-disciplinary multi-objective optimization, and also OptiSlang, Diffpack and Anybody.

The consortium comprises expert consultants in nonlinear analysis for mechanical engineering, specifically in Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) — techniques that are fundamental in automotive and aerospace engineering. CADFEM and EnginSoft are the leading analysis companies in Germany and Italy, respectively. The three companies have more than 350 employees and have engaged in engineering consulting for more than 25 years. The consortium expects its CU-ICAR office to expand to 30 to 40 engineers in the next few years.

Timken

The 118,000 square foot center is part of Timken’s network of technology centers within the global Bearings and Power Transmission business. The Greenville site is primarily responsible for Timken's development of new automotive powertrain technology and supporting the global design and production of bearings and related products used in powertrain applications.