Thermal Management Systems Symposium Coordinators preview exciting opportunities at upcoming event

Posted: Aug. 12, 2024

Staying up to date with industry trends and maintaining a strong network is hard—but with SAE International, it doesn’t have to be.

SAE’s Thermal Management Systems Symposium (TMSS) will take place on October 2-3 in Plymouth, Michigan, and will serve as a meeting place for a variety of thermal systems experts.

TMSS event planning committee members Sowmya Jayaraman, Global Technical Specialist for Thermal Performance and Validation at General Motors and GD Mathur, President of GDM Solutions, are looking forward to the opportunity to once again connect with mobility professions in the thermal management community.

With over 300 engineers, researchers, and regulators giving discussions on the latest information from industry and academia, TMSS is a “melting pot” of global partners.

“The forum provides a wealth of information across different faculties—from mechanical, chemical, propulsion, electrical, and software—so it essentially becomes a platform for new and experienced engineers to hear about how all of these faculties come together, and what different OEMs across the globe are doing,” Jayaraman said.

Mathur referred to TMSS as the “most important meeting in the thermal area” for its ability to bring together decision makers and innovators in the thermal engineering space to address today’s most pertinent thermal challenges on a global scale.

“What are we developing? What is Europe doing? The United States? Once we get all that information, we can really set directions within our own companies,” Mathur said.

Part of that global transportation—and arguably a major challenge for the mobility industry as a whole—is the concentrated effort to switch toward electric vehicles. In the push for net zero by 2050, thermal engineers are looking for ways to unite their efforts with increasingly complex technologies entering the market.

“Electrification mandates have increased the complexity of systems. We’re looking at enhanced needs for cooling since thermal management is so interwoven with these new systems. I think that the biggest challenge for us is getting to be more innovative, as well as getting these technologies out to our customers quickly. TMSS helps drive these goals,” Jayaraman said.

TMSS will address these and other challenges through a robust program, including sessions on Chinese and European OEMs regarding current electrification strategies and regulation-focused attendee tracks.

With a shared knowledge of new methods, tools, model-based systems engineering, and AI, Mathur emphasized that attendees can expect to gain massive insight behind the industry’s trajectory. 

“We are all working together for a better tomorrow,” Jayaraman said.

Registration is currently open for the Thermal Management Systems Symposium.

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