[photopress:tongjii_universityy_1.jpg,full,alignright]Tongji University in Shanghai has teamed up with Fortune 500 companies to launch the largest collaborative engineering education center in the Asia Pacific region.
The Advanced of Collaborative Engineering Education center, or PACE center, which is part of Tongji’s centenary anniversary celebrations, was jointly initiated by General Motors Corp, EDS, Sun Microsystems, UGS PLM Software and Hewlett Packard.
The partners are providing design software, hardware and training with a total value of more than $470 million to the center in Tongji’s suburban Jiading campus.
Students at Tongji’s school of automobile engineering and mechanical engineering will be given access the same auto designs, analysis and manufacturing facilities GM professionals use in the workplace.
Source: China.org.cn