Siemens, a global technology, has awarded Clemson University a software grant with a commercial value of $357M, the largest in university history.
The grant will benefit students and faculty in the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences, allowing students to develop skills with the world-class Siemens product lifecycle management (PLM) software that is used by more than 140,000 companies worldwide.
This exciting partnership will help prepare Clemson students to compete in the job market and will contribute to a highly skilled STEM workforce for South Carolina and the global advanced manufacturing sector.
Siemens President and CEO Eric Speigel and other executives visited campus on November 4 and 5 to announce and celebrate this partnership and participate in a thought leadership panel focused on workforce development. Ted Pitts, President and CEO of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, moderated the panel comprising Dr. Gregory Mocko, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson and faculty proponent of using Siemens PLM software in the classroom, Ted Mitchell, Under Secretary for the U.S. Dept. of Education, Dr. Joerg Schulte, Manager – Liaison Office for Research and Innovation at BMW, and Shweta Rawat, Automotive Engineering Graduate Student at CU-ICAR.
Read more about the Siemens PLM software grant and Siemens’ footprint in South Carolina and view the announcement and panel.
