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Automotive Engineering Fellowship Awards Ceremony honors fellowship recipients and corporate donors

December 5, 2017

CU-ICAR held its annual Automotive Engineering Fellowship Awards Ceremony on November 17 to honor the graduate students who received fellowship awards for the 2017-2018 academic year, as well as the generous corporate donors who created these awards.

Bill Post, PhD, Division Director, Integrated Controls at Honda R&D Americas, Inc. was the keynote speaker at this year’s ceremony. Dr. Post is a three-time graduate of Clemson and shared about the importance of his Clemson education in his career path with the awards ceremony honorees and attendees.

Burzis Taraporevala, Secretary and Chief Financial Officer for the Sir Ratan Tata Trust and Allied Trusts, also shared remarks at the ceremony, remarking on the legacy of philanthropy that inspired the founding of Clemson University and the importance of continuing to pay that generosity forward.

Twenty-nine automotive engineering graduate students received fellowship awards this year from companies and other funders including Tata Trust, BMW, Bosch, Bridgestone, Cooper Standard, Draexlmaier, Firestone Fibers & Textiles, JTEKT, National Science Foundation, Plastic Omnium, Sage Automotive Interiors, Sonoco, and Staubli.