Product Management

Vehicles and engineers are attention-magnets at SAE Supermileage A slew of single-occupant vehicles designed and built by collegiate engineering students recorded three- and four-digit fuel economy at the 33rd annual SAE Supermileage event hosted in June at Eaton Corp.'s Marshall, MI, proving ground. Read full story

To be a partner with them, Kistler gets close to customers Hot on the heels of having opened a technical center in Shanghai, Kistler opens one in Novi, MI. Read full story

Body and soul rule at 2012 Formula SAE The 106 open-wheel racecars vying for top honors at the 2012 Formula SAE Michigan challenge were design originals developed and built by collegiate engineering students. Read full story

Full charge ahead: SAE International launches Global Technology Libraries The first GTL knowledge product to launch focuses on ground vehicle electrification. Built from the ground up using agile-development techniques, with multiple interactions with industry-based testers, SAE’s GTL-EV is a unique subscription product. Read full story

OEM-supplier working relations just 'average,' says new study In PPI's 2012 study on OEM-supplier relations, two OEMs gained higher marks in dealing with Tier 1s, and two OEMs declined. Read full story

Engineer shortage threatens advanced powertrain development A worldwide shortage of engineers is threatening the auto industry’s advanced technology development, concurred a panel of powertrain executive engineers at the SAE 2012 World Congress. Read full story

Mercedes' 6th-generation SL is light in weight, heavy on technology The car's development director and aerodynamics specialist reveal the finer design and engineering points of the two-seat, high-performance, folding hardtop luxury cruiser. Read full story

The value of variety vs. the cost of complexity in E/E design The characteristics of a solution that tackles the challenge of E/E complexity include respect for data integrity and cross-domain integration; increased abstraction so that design content can be synthesized from higher level inputs; sophisticated design change handling; and capabilities embedded throughout the flow that manage and control configuration complexity. Read full story

Growing Nissan-America’s R&D Q&A with Carla Bailo, Senior VP of Research & Development for Nissan Americas, which has a booming book of business in new vehicle development and fuel-cell core research, among other work. Read full story