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MEAM plays a major role in a new partnership between the College and
General Motors Global Research and Development Operations to host a $5 million
GM Satellite Research Laboratory at U-M. A letter of understanding was signed
on January 30, 1998, in the College's General Motors Conference Hall by: (seated,
from left) Kenneth R. Baker, GM's vice president, Global Research and Development
Operations; and Stephen W. Director, Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering. Standing
(from left) are Sam Marin, research fellow,
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GM's Manufacturing and Design Systems
Department; Volker Sick, associate professor, MEAM; Hazem Ezzat, head, Manufacturing
and Design Systems Department and chief scientist, Delphi Saginaw Steering Systems;
Dennis N. Assanis, professor, MEAM; George R. Carignan, dean, Graduate Education and
Research; and S. Jack Hu (MSE '86, PhD '90), assistant professor, MEAM. Panos Y.
Papalambros, professor and chair, MEAM, and Dr. Ezzat will serve as co-directors of
this new research laboratory.
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